Nokia today announced the launch of the Nokia 6122c, an S60 phone available exclusively for China Mobile. This follows on from the announcement of the Nokia 6124c (Vodafone) and Nokia 6650 (T-Mobile). The 6122c is effectively the 6120 in a new shell. It runs S60 3rd Edition Feature Pack 1, has a 2.0 megapixel camera, FM Radio, microSD card slot and a dedicated China Mobile Internet key.
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That's arguably an improvement on the 6120 because the 6120's biggest flaw was the small size of the buttons. Larger buttons = better phone IMHO... 😊
Just wondering if this phone being China exclusive is targeted towards their crappy home grown 3G (TD-SCDMA) network as opposed to the normal W-CDMA 3G everywhere else?
Just taking a wild guess it is..
@Rafe
[INDENT]Your first reference to the Voda 6124 says "6124c" - the 'c' is wrong. (It would mean the Vodafone/Vodacom device was Chinese.)[/INDENT]
@Bchliu
[INDENT]Probably this is 2.5G only - Nokia have launched any TD-SCDMA devices yet. As far as I know China Mobile are still only testing with a limited number of special handsets.
If Nokia had one of the first contracts to supply handsets with this technology they would surely shout about it in their press release (http://www.nokia.com/A4136001?newsid=1216230).
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ttfn, Tony
The c stands for classic (properly there should be c's after all the Nokia numbers). Its Sony Ericsson who use c for Chinese handsets.
Not sure on bands, but I wouldn't be surprised if this is 2.5G.
@bchliu
Does this coincide with China's crappy home grown 3G?
Just wondering if this phone being China exclusive is targeted towards their crappy.
I wonder why you say that it's crappy. Care to enlighten us as why you think it's crappy?
I know that the 6120c has been available in China for a while - I even saw one in a high street store today (I'm in Beijing). This leads me to wonder why they would want to make one specifically for CMCC - it is only a branding thing, or are there other differences (more than cosmetic)?