Well… some months ago I made a post about the Nokia 6120 Classic. I’ve more time to use the Nokia 6120 Classic, and lets just say my first review was a little to early to give good judgement.
I’d had an ongoing battle with the place I bought the phone from, there’s been so many problems with it since I wrote my first review that I’m wondering why I ever switched from my lovely Sony Ericsson K750i at all.
So what exactly has gone wrong you ask? Well here’s a list of things I don’t like about it.
- The battery requires a full charge every 3 days, with or without calls taking place. My previous phone would require a full charge once a week, the battery just doesn’t hold out for long enough as I would want to.
- The quality of the camera photos are attrocious, I’m guessing Nokia provide no processing or CMOS sensor in the phone like other brands are doing for better image quality. The “night mode” has no difference on photos to taking it without them, it works ok in daylight, but if you go in a room with a light on there is a lot of noise through the photos. The flash is to harsh also which means anything close to the lense will be a bright white.
- The handset overheats which I can feel considerably through my hand and ear when on a call. There has been a lot of reports on this from Whirlpool.net.au and the Nokia.com.au forums. When I reported this to the place of purchase, they replied to me with one of Nokias press releases. Which is a load of crap, according to Nokia it’s been “made this way” and I should use the hands free kit. Well I don’t want to!
- A critical bug, I lose all sound for ringtones, message tones which has caused me to miss emergency calls at work. This can happen at any time without warning and nothing to trigger it. Should the phone vibrate for a call after and I answer, I cannot hear anyone speaking on the end. Which is totally unacceptable.
- Sending video via the MMS function has a cap on the size of the video of 300k. Considering the phone is 3G enabled and makes use of wireless broadband this shouldnt be a problem to send on. However being capped I cannot send anything at all and it’s rather frustrating.
- With a microSD card inserted and selected for messages to be saved on, loading anything off it. Messages, photos etc is ridiculously slow. I’ve waited near 10 seconds for a message to load.
- When photos/messages are selected to save to the microSD card, should I want to access the photos via USB an error occurs plugging in the USB and I have to switch the phone to phone memory to access the memory card photos.
- After changing the “font size” on the phone with it being to small to read, I’ve seen no difference and have a hard time seeing anything on the phone.
- I’ve found the phone to be incompatible with my old phone (to transfer contacts and data) and also another Sony Ericsson and LG phone which are used by my housemates.
That pretty much sums it up. I’m currently keeping my eye out on eBay for a Sony Ericsson K770i, it’s a nice little phone that does what I use the phone for. Once I get that I’m sure to give it a good wrap as previous SE’s have been good.
