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N73 vs 6120

3 replies · 6,710 views · Started 06 December 2007

I'm going to buy one of them. The camera isn't important for me.
The most important thing is the size of the fonts and icons.
N73 screen is a little bigger (2.4 vs 2.0), does it mean that fonts and icons are bigger too.

Recenly I got a proposal from Cellular provider N73, N76, 5700 - same money (about 180$) and of course 6120 for free.

Most important for me font, icon sizes, then keypad size.
Camera is not important at all.

Please advice guys.

n73 definitely has bigger screen(2.4"😉 and icons. and it's easy to read because of its automatic brightness control. 6120 has smaller screen(2.0"😉 and smaller icons, with a kind of blueish haze on the screen.

on the other hand, 6120 definitely has better keyboard than n73. it does not have that annoying 'joystick', which, in n73 becomes considerably loose after some time, although works fine and does not fall off. and the 'C' button in 6120 is placed near the middle of the phone, making it easy to reach with thumb while typing with one hand(n73 has it at the bottom).

n73 has longer talk/standby that 6120. but that never bothers me as i have car/usb charger which i borrowed from my bluetooth gps charger(both run on 5 volts).

the rest of the specs are nearly the same. although 6120 seems a bit more 'organized' with program grouping and icon placement/folders.

oh, and i did a 'tomtom' test on both the phones. and tomtom definitely has 'very faster' performance on 6120, compared to n73. i put them side by side with the same 'demo' and 6120 beat n73 by about 1 second on 'intersections'. which kept increasing and within a few minutes 6120 was leading n73 by quite a few seconds.

I got an opprtunity to play with N73, 6120.

N73 has may be a bit bigger fonts in 2 cases: incoming ring (6120 has very very small fonts here) and may be menus.
But 6120 allows to select large fonts, Font Magnifier on it (provider gives it) helps to increase the size of fonts in Contacts and others, besides it has quick response regarding N73, I'd say for the same money I'd take N73, but since 6120 is for free, and N73 - 180$ then the choice is clear: I think 6120.