Well, I took the plunge and got a new phone a week ago and went with the Nokia 6120 Classic. I’ve spent the last 2 years with a Sony Ericsson K750i, which was a really good phone. While there’s always a learning curve from one brand of phone to another, it hasn’t been to bad with going from the SE to the Nokia.

When I had the SE k750i, it was more for a purpse. Camera, walkman, calls, texting, bit of a calendar. I used the camera, and walkman functions for a long time. But when I got my iRiver X20 I didn’t use it anymore and my use of the phone dropped considerably. The problem with the SE’s are those silly little joysticks that fail after a years use, which they’ve been putting in their phones for god knows how many years, and they still haven’t realised they break! I got sick of not being able to scroll down, then up, left and right followed. They also used Sony Memory sticks, which meant you had to sever a leg so you could get a 1gb card to shove in it. Sony Ericsson have since wised up and are using standard flash based cards which is the only way they are going to sell more phones.

The Nokia 6120 comes with MicroSD, I hadn’t seen them upclose but it literally is the size of a fingernail. First impressions of the 6120 is it’s a sexy looking little phone. Kind of like that slim looking girl you see when you’re out in the sleek black dress, but looks can be deciving. First contact with her and she’s hard to work out, and isn’t exactly great when it comes to photos. If you missed the underlying subject here… Nokia cameras look great and take shit photos.

I find the Nokia also very slow when navigating around menu’s or loading text messages, especially when accessing the memory card.

I’m yet to play with the video calls, but I don’t expect to much. But it is an easy phone for the minimal uses of texting and calls these days that I make. I don’t take to many photos anymore and I use the iRiver for music. It does however use a standard plug for transferring data to usb, the same one my iRiver uses infact. A few bugs like accessing the memory card when in USB mode, I get some errors. It’s not a bad phone, I can live with it. There are things I can say are wrong with it, but I’m sure a fireware upgrade or maybe installing the Nokia software on my computer will show me a few things to play with.