Nokia cameraphone review

At Kustavan's request, here are some notes on my new cameraphone.

I didn't do a lot of research or comparison shopping on this one. The only thing I was really looking for was a decent camera on the phone. I wanted to get a fashionable Motorola phone but my wife overruled me in favor of Nokia. We went to the Nokia Concept shop on Church Street (dunno if that was a good idea, maybe they have higher prices. There was another Nokia dealer just across the street, but I didn't compare prices). They had a lot of phones there so there was a decent range of phones to pick from. I straightaway liked this phone 6125 and another slightly higher-end model. Both were fliptop (or do they call them clamshell) phones. The differences were minor -- the other phone had a knob you could press to open up the phone, this one you have to physically prise the two blades apart, and there were a couple of other enhancements on the other one that I felt I could live without. 6125 costed me 10800 (or was it 11800? don't remember) and the other was 13800/- types.

6125 is pretty good. The look is sleek -- silver and black. The camera is good, I forget the image quality number but you've seen the images on this blog. The camera has a reasonable zoom range. There are the usual neat things like associating an image with a contact so the image shows up when the contact calls. Other features:
-- You can easily stick in an external memory card to increase the memory.
-- Its got radio but that requires an external extra antenna, so that's pretty much uninteresting for me.
-- Basic voice recognition so you can say the name of a contact and it will try to identify the contact. Doesn't work that well.
-- Thoughtful feature: press a key and switch between 'general' and 'silent' profiles.
-- Lots of messaging enhancements that I haven't gone into yet as I don't use it much
-- I wrote about the bluetooth already, but that's pretty much standard nowadays
. It also has USB and infrared connectivity to computers which I haven't checked.
-- GPRS, which I don't know anything about
-- You can record short video or audio clips. You can download video and audio on to the phone and play. It has an equalizer for the audio!
-- Calendar, to-do list, stopwatch
-- WAP web browser
-- What it don't got is a torchlight like 1100 -- which to me is a high-watermark of cellphones

Enough already ! Technology gone mad !

PS: Thanks, Priya for gifting me this one :-)