Hi-Mobile.net sent us in one of the most down-to-earth, powerful and yet no frills, smartphone Nokia ever released, the 6120 Classic. Read on for our review of the SymbianOS S60 v3.1-based smartphone.
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Nice review!
This is OT, but I have to ask, since Eugenia seems an expert on phones 
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What do you think of the SE K610i?
Last week, I saw it for sale with a SIM card that had 3,129 minutes for free, for a bit less than $200.
I did some research on it, and it has most features I use, a good web browser (Netfront 3.3, is it actually any good?) and higher Java performance than the 6120, according to JBenchmark (except for the 3D, 6120 is a bit higher here), which is good since I like playing some games on my phone every now and then 
I'm asking this, because the last phone I bought had lots of problems even though I researched it.
And how do you think the K610i compares to the 6120?
Does the difference in functionality between them justify the price?
Thanks.
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I have recently got Nokia E50 (with Symbian S60v3) and after some fiddling I've got it to sync with Evolution via Bluetooth thanks to this howto (for Ubuntu) http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=260676
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The specs & features are impressive and the price is very attractive.
I have an HTC Wizard (Cingular/AT&T 8125) and even though it has a larger screen & does WIFI, it doesn't have 3G. This Nokia 6120 smartphone may have a smaller screen and no WIFI, but DOES have 3G capability.
The price, 3G capability & other features would seem to put it as a good contender, IMO.
I have to say that the pics in the review looked pretty darn clear & nice.
Though the review may be considered Off-Topic, it's nice to see some variety regarding other aspects of technology, including little gadgets.
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> The price, 3G capability & other features would seem to put it as a good contender, IMO.
I think it's one of the best current Nokia sellers.
>Though the review may be considered Off-Topic
It ain't.
OSNews is a generic tech site, not just OS news. It's written in the mission statement.
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I waited for this phone to appear for months, I really wanted to buy it for myself as a birthday present.
But in the last few weeks quite a few people are complaining about it, the keys on the keyboard get loose somehow, the battery cover get loose, the phone heats up when you talk for a while, quite a few of the phones have died in the first few weeks for no reason, and it has a high SAR value for a modern phone.
So now I don't really know it it is such a good phone, I think I'll just wait a while longer to see what happens.
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To run your own homebrew software you have to get certified or your phone will refuse to run them. There's also Python for S60, see http://opensource.nokia.com/projects/pythonfors60/index.html
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Not true, or at best a half-truth.
* Sensitive capabilities
To develop applications that require an ACS Publisher ID for a DevCert to be issued, covering both the 'basic' and 'extended' capability domains as defined by Symbian. Refer to the UIQ 3 SDK documentation for a complete breakdown or visit the Symbian Signed website for more information>>
* Phone manufacturer approved capabilities
To be able to access any of the restricted Sony Ericsson controlled APIs, for stated business reasons, you need to go through a review process due to the sensitive nature of these capabilities.
To see the rest, go to
http://developer.sonyericsson.com/site/global/gotomarket/certificat...
or the corresponding Nokia / SymbianSigned sites.
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Get. An. iPhone.
The hacking-unfriendliness of the iPhone is completely overrated. If you actually intend to do *any* kind of hacking, you'll have to get your hands dirty anyway.
The Symbian development tools suck. No half-words. Carbide is just ridiculous. CodeWarrior will set you back a considerable amount of cash. Visual Studio plus Symbian SDK is OK, almost decent, but still not decent. But that's on a IDE level. API-level, you've got to be kidding me by not going iPhone. Look at what the guys already accomplished by using AJAX. Look at what the guys already accomplished by not using AJAX and going straight to the jailbreak/UIKit process.
Not to mention how Nokia always ships a couple of revisions behind SymbianOS, and only recently SymbianOS began supporting memory paging (which, I suspect, is the reason why Eugenia didn't run out of RAM when browsing sites that usually put the S60 browser to shame). And Nokia *never*, ever, released a new OS to use on an "older" phone. I, a Nokia E70 owner, am stuck with a broken 3.0 firmware, and that's because I forced my phone to report being of a different region that it actually is. And yes, I'm putting up with the crazied keyboard layout, because the 2.0 firmware is unbearable.
Consider that Apple isn't focusing on an entire line of phones; only the iPhone (and I hope that this won't change in today's announcement; but we'll know what happens in the next 3h). Whatever Apple does, I won't change my stance: programming using the Cocoa APIs is incomparable to S60/UIQ/Symbian in general. The Symbian Signed stuff sucks to untold extremes. Homebrew has been extremely limited by it, and lo and behold, it hasn't prevented any kind of cracking at all -- not even limited it! --, because almost every vendor is locked to the same lowest common denominator of plain "self-signed dev certificates". Which defeats the whole purpose.
Symbian's trusted levels are all about media DRM, which completely failed to materialise. There's the occasional rambling on Nokia music stores, but has anyone ever cared about it at all?
And we already have Apple committed to releasing real software improvements in a timely fashion. They even changed their usual accounting process to deal with this. Apple-blessed native software development is only a matter of time now, as the demand is clearly there and Apple hasn't risen from the ashes by not listening to their customers and developers. They even softened their position regarding un-supporting Carbon64 after a number of developers expressed their concerns.
IMH, but first-hand opinion, your safest bet is anything but Symbian-related stuff. Go Windows Mobile if you will, but not Symbian. And I strongly suggest you to go iPhone, money permitting.
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I have been using this phone for more than a month. Very impressive. The camera is a bit below average, but everything else is nearly perfect. Slim, fast, HSDPA is real fast, voice quality is top-notch, screen is beautiful, and it is stable, no hangs/reboots/whatever.
The only problem is that when I play H264/AAC movies on it at higher frame rates (25fps), it skips. At 20 or 15 fps, it is OK. Somebody on the net says this is because the phone, unlike N73, does not do hardware AAC decoding. I don't know if this is real.
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Some freeware for this phone http://symbiancorner.blogspot.com
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Fully support dual core CPU, Wondershare Zune Video Suite provides fast conversion speed, far beyond your imagination. Powerful video edit functions let you enjoy movies on Zune freely.
http://www.zuneconverter.net/
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