Nokia 6124 Classic 3G Cell Phone Based on S60 Debuts At CeBIT – Read ‘Classic’ As ‘Dull’

Nokia chose CeBIT to debut their new 6124 3G ‘Classic’ cell phone which, apart from being reserved for Vodafone customers only, has at last confirmed what we always suspected – and that is that cell phone manufactures only ever use the term ‘classic’ to define handsets that are totally, inexorably and most shockingly dull.

Coming hot on the heals of Nokia’s newly announced N6650GPS Cell Phone – which sports positively breathtaking aesthetic appeal and an utterly sublime feature set when compared with this particular model – Nokia’s 6124, which is based on their S60 operating system, is billed as being a ‘compact multimedia device offering Vodafone customers faster and easier access to all of Vodafone’s high speed internet and entertainment services’ which, if you bear with us for a moment, we would re-write as follows: ‘Our Nokia 6124 Classically Dull is a reasonably sized device that does what most cell phones do these days and as Vodafone are looking for a new, particularly low-end handset with which they can proliferate their online, mobile geared services we came up with this.’

In fairness, however, it’s not all bad being that the 6124 purportedly offers high speed web browsing and download transfer speeds that, according to the official press release, offers speeds ‘10 times faster than 3G networks’. Bravo.

The 6124 comes with a ‘large’ 2” display (makes mental note to self – if 2” is indeed large must tell wife to stop complaining), a 2 megapixel camera with flash and panorama mode (nice features, shame about the pathetically low resolution) and an external memory card slot allowing the undisclosed internal memory capacity to be expanded to up to 8GB.

Due to be released in the second quarter of ’08, no pricing details concerning the 6124 have been announced but expect it to very cheap (personally I’d expect Nokia or Vodafone – preferably both – to pay me to own one, but then I’ve always been particular).

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