The Nokia developers have been long brooding over a concept of inexpensive yet efficient mass smartphone, but all of their previous attempts were of little avail. Even at the initial moment of smartphone market formation Nokia offered a number of relatively cheap smartphones targeted at a youth audience (like the 3650 model) but the attempts could hardly be seen as successful – the word ‘inexpensive’ still stood for quite a challengeable price as long as much cheaper solutions from the casual phone market were thriving, and the dimensions of a smartphone looked a bit frightening (or at least discomforting) in those days. The next try was the ill-fated N-Gage gaming smartphone – the design and functionality could hardly be deemed acceptable for the large audiences, and the new gaming features weren’t enough to make the device commercially successful. This was also due to the fact that the technologies of those days weren’t advanced enough to let the manufacturer design a really inexpensive and reasonably sized device with a functionality comparable to popular solutions from the casual phone market.

The situation has greatly improved by now, today’s smarphones are no longer expensive and poorly functional toys for the rich yet none of them is known to be really affordable to the masses. The treaty between Nokia and Freescale companies was a major boost to Nokia’s developments in the field of smartphone technology, a reference single-chip platform for inexpensive smartphone solutions was successfully implemented in practice, allowing for creation of high-performance products. The perspectives that open upon the implementation of the above-mentioned platform can hardly be underestimated, since that Nokia had sufficient resources to introduce smartphone products cheap enough for a mass market buyer and at the same time as efficient as the casual phones of the same class.

The first product to pioneer the frontier was Nokia 6290, this was the initial product of the now abundant series of Freescale-based solutions. The model utilizes the folder form-factor and is rather reasonably sized (of course in comparison to products that entered the market at the same time). The price of €320 wasn’t too high for a smartphone as well, yet the product could hardly find a niche in the mass market. Nevertheless Nokia 6290 sold well enough to give its developers enough grounds to plan an expansion of the existing concept. It wasn’t long until a sequel was introduced; Nokia 6120 Classic is the smallest, lightest and cheapest smartphone available today, sporting a good functionality and such a combination is truly unique.

The device is positioned not as a pureblood smartphone but as (not-as)-casual phone with expanded functionality. In addition to the lot of its merits, it’s the cheapest SDPA-compatible phone operationable in 3G networks. The product is included in package deals by most European mobile operators (given away for free upon striking the deal, as they put it), no offerings with comparable functionality that are compatible in 3G networks are known to exist.

Nokia 6120 Classic General Specifications

Telecoms:	GSM 850/900/1800/1900, WCDMA 850/2100, HSDPA 3,6 mbps, EDGE class 10
Memory:	35 Mb of user memory, microSD card slot, up to 2 Gb supported
Data transfer protocols:	USB2.0, Bluetooth 2.0 + EDR (A2DP supports)
Camera:	2,0 Mp (up to 1600 x 1200)
Display:	2.0", 240x320, 16 M Colors
Battery:	890 mAh, BL-5B, up to 3 hours of talk time,up to 250 hours of standby.
Dimensions:	105 x 46 x 15 mm
Estimated price:	240 euro

It’s also worth mentioning that the Nokia company won a tender for building a WCDMA network for the Vodafone operator in New Zealand, and a variation of the 6120c, dubbed 6121c, was accordingly introduced, the only difference being the support of an alternate frequency band – WCFMA 900 instead of the 850 Khz of 6120c. This product will be available exclusively in Australia and New Zealand.

To be able to cater to a maximally large audience, the 6120c was given a very neutral-looking appearance, very classical looks indeed, the colors of the casing do nothing to distinguish the device from the rest of the products neighboring it on the shop shelf, but that can hardly be seen as a flaw – the modesty of looks also means the diversity of use, as long as it goes to the aesthetical aspect of the matter: the product is equally becoming to all age groups, men and women alike (considering the color variations). The brand design is very similar with the rest of earlier Nokia products, sharing a lot in common with the 6233 model, the former flagship model.

Nokia 6120c is rather meant to attract new audiences rather than keep the established customers loyal. It’s true that the 6120c is a full-blown smartphone with all the characteristic traits, but in the first place it’s a cheap smartphone sporting small size and classical design. Time will show how successful this combination will be and how close to the future models of the new series it will stand in terms of functionality and design, but it stands to reason that such a step taken towards making the smartphones more affordable is a milestone in Nokia’s history as a smartphone manufacturer.

Although, Nokia 6120c can’t boast any premium features which is quite natural for an inexpensive mass market product, miracles aside. Let’s have a closer look upon the main specifications of the device.

Design and Ergonomics

As we have already mentioned, the design of 6120c is mostly unremarkable, it’s a very neutral-looking solution commonly utilized by the company in the mid- and low-end market segments (you might recall the 3110c and 2630 models which look much like the device in question). The dimensions of the device are much closer to those of a casual phone than a smartphone, the product is meant to give the mass consumer an impression of something familiar and not too sophisticated – and, as well, not too big to be carried even in a small pocket. Nokia 6120c is even lighter and smaller than many of the casual phones available on the market, its weight is only 84 g. The handset sits in the hand beautifully, the weight of its parts is evenly balanced, it’s not too thick and leaves a very pleasant impression. You wouldn’t ever guess that it’s a smartphone belonging to the 3,5 generation, supplied with a powerful CPU and the S60 platform that you are holding in the hand.

The model has a few color variations (6121c included): black, white, buff, pink and indigo, the main one being black.

The plastic used for the front and back panels is glossy, it easily gets greased with the fingerprints. Judging by the finish it’s the same material as used in Nokia 6288. The quality of plastic is satisfactory though it doesn’t look really impressive it’s still fair enough not to invoke any negative feelings.

The build quality is a whole story itself. The quality of build is high enough, the casing doesn’t screech on squeezing, the parts are tightly fit save for a minor exception – there’s a slight vertical play between the battery cover and the rest of the phone, at the same time it’s a bit hard to remove it, you have to put force. The controls aren’t wobbly yet have a fine feedback – neither too tight nor too loose. The backlighting’s weeping through the slight openings between the keypad buttons, the casing and the volume controls, the camera buttons and the memory card slot. That causes no perceptible inconvenience though, yet the aesthetic aspect may appear neglected.

For the rest of the deal, there seems to be no possible ways to reproach the build any further – on the whole, the overall quality overweighs minor drawbacks. The framing running all along the edges of the casing turned out to be stainless steel (instead of chrome-coated plastic as we thought), its matte surface helps to hide scratches. The side edges of the casing are made out of hard and thick matte plastic, forming the backbone of construction. The metal framing only adds to the overall durability, at the same time making the phone look more solid and exquisite. The 6120c gives a monolith and sturdy feel, save for the slight play of the battery cover.

The arrangement of control elements is quite standard, the numeric keypad is of the common type found with most Nokia phones – the numerics themselves and the block of controls. The numerics are quite common, and the control block is a bit on the awkward side – the buttons are crowded and the two soft button, instead of occupying the traditional position below the screen corners are shifted to the center, while the margins are occupied by the menu and C buttons. Those come with small flanges intended to give the buttons a more distinct feel. The navigation button is coated with chrome, the coating is prone to destruction over time. There aren’t any dedicated controls like the multimedia button or the edit button. The keypad backlighting is of a white color with a slight pink hue, it makes the button symbols clearly visible from a distance in most environments. There’s no luminance sensor in, so the keypad is always evenly lit.

The right edge of the casing hosts the combined volume control button, a little bit lower is the camera launch button. The standard miniUSB slot, a 2,5 mm headset minijack and the thin charger slot are located at the bottom edge. A HS-47 headset is included into the sales package, there’s no 2.5=>3.5 mm adapter, though those are easily available from retail stores (manufactured by a 3rd party). The brand AD-44 adapter is perfectly compatible with the 6120c, though it’s a bit hard to find one in the store.

The memory expansion card slot is situated on the left side of the phone, protected by a plastic gag. The same left edge hosts the polyphonic speaker. The upper edge is only remarkable for the profile switch button – the only eye-catching detail of Nokia 6120, sporting the original orange framing.

The battery cover is made out of thick (~1 mm) glossy plastic, a slight flange is provided to keep the surface from touching the table (and further likely scratching). The protective glass of the camera lens is slightly sunken, so it’s hard to scratch. The LED flashlight is situated nearby.

Nokia 6120c utilizes a BL-5B 3.7V, 820 mAh battery. As claimed by the manufacturer, the full battery charge is enough to provide 3.1 hours (GSM) or 2.4 hours (WCDMA) of talk time before wasting out, which is equal to 9,5 days of standby mode. During the moderate duty cycle (about an hour of talk time, 2-3 hours of listening to the music, an hour of camera operation and working with miscellaneous functions Nokia 6120c was able to survive for about two days, that’s quite a typical result for a modern-day phone.

Display

The display of Nokia 6120c is relatively large for a smartphone, the overall dimensions counting 31x41 mm (2’’ diagonal). The size is comparable to Nokia 6300, 6500c E50 and so on. On the whole, it causes no discomfort at all – probably the font sizes are a little bit small, but the rest is definitely all right.

The screen is powered by the TFT technology and is capable of displaying 16M colors. The matrix sports a mirror backing, which helps to see the screen information in direct sunlight. The view angles of 6120c are large enough, the view angles are comfortable for almost any situation. The brightness is on a high level, turned to maximum it makes a match to 6300. The luminance sensor is missing which stands for no auto adjusting – yet the user is free to customize the brightness levels manually.

The screen is framed with glossy material which is very prone to greasing. The frontal camera lens for making video calls and the exterior opening of the speaker are found just above.

Nokia 6120c possesses all the standard mobile networking features common for that product class, the wire data exchange is done through USB (miniUSB slot), the rest of the slots includes the 2.5 mm headset jack HS-47 and the thin charger slot.

The miniUSB slot is found at the bottom of the device, the data cable ships in the sales package as well. The data transition speed of this model is fairly comparable to Nokia 6290. The USB standard 2.0. the Mass Storage mode is supported – you can choose between Mass Storage, PC Suite Synchronization and Modem Connection. While used in the Mass Storage Mode 6120c doesn’t go offline, the functionality of the device is retained at the utmost degree.

The 2.5mm to 3.5mm jack for the standard socket is known to exist in two distinct forms: the original one manufactured by Nokia themselves and the 3rd party creations. The AD-44 included into the standard sales package of Nokia 5700 is perfectly compatible with 6120c, the sound quality keeps at the same high level; the bundled Philips headset taken from the Nokia 5700 sales package sounds in a fashion quite comparable to that of original 5700 in terms of audio quality while plugged into Nokia 6120c using the adaptor – save for a few minor differences in the depth of field and the way how the high pitches and the basses sound.

Nokia 6120c is designed to work in the EGSM 850/900/1800/1900 networks as well as WCDMA/HSDPA/850/2100, so the HSDPA support is one of the key features of the novelty, it’s the cheapest 3,5G smartphone on the market so far. The increasing activities and service demand on the part of the mobile operators gave Nokia enough momentum to begin developing a product like that – in the majority of cases the phone is included as a bonus into the mobile service contract unlike the majority of devices with comparable functionality – so that means that the increasingly large number of customers get a chance to make use of the broadband data transfer vie HSDPA channels, thus bringing more money to the operator companies. The whole look of it invokes associations with Nokia 6151, which was hardly popular in the retail sim-free market, but became the first free 3G phone to feature in mobile service package deals all across the Europe.

As stated by the manufacturer, Nokia 6120c utilizes Bluetooth 2.0 + EDR, all of the general profiles are supported:

The A2DP support allows for the wireless headset to be used along with the integrated music player, no problems were spotted by us so far regarding this part of functionality.

The Bluetooth data transfer speed reaches about 130 Kb/s. The Bluetooth visibility interval is now available as a customizable setting, ranging from one minute to one hour.

Performance

In the field of performance lies the striking difference between the product in question and a multitude of other smartphones issued by Nloa, the standard values were a 220 Mhz CPU frequency as specified by the TI OMAP 1710 chipset. In the current case we observe a noticeable performance boost which can’t be explained by anything but the transition to the totally new hardware platform. Without dwelling deep into technical detail let’s just note out that the performance of the casual phones is in the breath of that displayed by Nokia 6120c. A number of typical operations characteristic of smartphones and casual phones alike display no difference in time taken to solve those particular tasks, which is a huge plus of the model. The hardware part of the phone almost completely coincide with that of Nokia 6290, N76 – this fact is indicated by the comparable test results as well.

	Nokia 6120 classic	Sony Ericsson K810i
Jbenchmark 1.0.1 Score	5797	7491
Text	1650	2333
2D Shapes	1472	1995
3D Shapes	707	823
Fill Rate	385	598
Animation	1583	1742
Jbenchmark 2.0.1 Score	688	638
Image Manipulations	405	395
Text	761	716
Sprites	566	622
3D Transform	366	637
User Interface	915	16108
Jbenchmark 3D HQ	198	177
Jbenchmark 3D LQ	396	321
Triangles ps	59710	34095
Jbenchmark HD Gaming Score	168 (5.4 fps)	91 (3.0 fps)
Smooth triangles	107684	44190
Fill rate, KTexels	3410	1107

The phone works operates under command of the latest revision of the Symbian mobile operating system, the exact version is 9.2 / S60v3 FP1. There’s no support for Fast Boost mode, though the phone boots up quickly enough anyway – hardly more than 20 seconds is the average boot time that we witnessed.

The amount of integrated memory available to the user after the OS is loaded and ready for operation counts about 20 Mb of free space as compared to the total 64 Mb of integrated user memory. That’s not much, somewhere on a level comparable to the rest of the devices by that manufacturer. The small amount of memory imposes certain sorts of limitations, there’s no way to avoid that. On the other hand, an unpretentious consumer who buys a smartphone for the first time in their life won’t probably notice those limitations at all. Similar to the rest of devices based off the third edition of the S60 platform, the applications close on pressing the Power Off / Cancel button and are minimized with the help of the Menu button. The Heap memory size and the maximum jar size are unlimited.

The amount of the integrated memory equals to 128 Mb, the user accessible space is as much as 35 Mb.

User Interface

The Nokia 6120c model is based off the S60v3 FP1 platform, that’s the latest revision of the platform as of today, true both for existing and announced solutions by the Finnish manufacturer. The difference from the earlier versions is rather minor, including the OS-level support for the A2DP profile, HSDPA, the updated Nokia Web Browser, Freescale CPU support. The latter is one of the key features indicating the smooth transition to CPUs other than TI OMAP, leading to significant portfolio expansion. As it has been already mentioned, the hardware platform based off the Freescale chip is notable for lower development costs combined with a high performance, especially when it comes to the menus and standard applications like the phonebook, PIM, messaging service, camera and so on – the stereotypical image of a “slow smartphone” is waning into obscurity thanks to such products as Nokia 6290, N76, 6110 Navigator, 6120 Classic and so on. Formally these belong to the mod-end market and none of them is remarkable for an outstanding functionality or any claims for a top position in any sector – the real flagships will be TI OMAP (2420 / 2430) solutions with a hardware 2D/3D accelerator, the standard task performance will stay on the same level. This way Nokia are developing two branches of devices targeted at different market sectors: multimedia-oriented flagship models and high-performance mid-end products, expanding the presence of smartphones on the mass market.

The layout of menu elements is standard for the company’s smartphones, there’s totally nothing new on this front. The menu can be viewed in four modes, the two new variants dubbed Horseshoe and V-shaped aren’t that comfortable, yet look very attractive. The animations and graphics aren’t laggy, save probably for the short delays while moving the selection between menu items. The status line found at the bottom or along the side of the screen both in V-shaped and Horseshoe modes shows the contents of the selected menu item. The number of submenus stored within a menu item isn’t limited, going to the submenu is done through pressing the navigation button or the joystick downwards or to the right respectively, the contents of the selected submenu is shown as a row of large icons. Returning to the previous level is also done by pressing the navigation button sideways.

The menu isn’t animated, however one pleasant thing is that the right corner of every menu item no matter if the icon is a shortcut or a folder, a semi-circular mark appears if the application is currently running in the background.

The Go-To standby mode expansion first appeared among the S60-based Nokia products, the pioneers being 6680/6681. From five to eight (depending on the screen resolution and orientation) application shortcuts, schedule gist and player settings were originally the stuff that this feature allowed to pass to the screen during standby. Later the Go-To active standby mode appeared with Series40 as well, also sporting an expanded functionality – simple phones came to beat smartphones at least in one area, which looked a bit unusual.

In some of the devices based off S60v3 Feature Pack 1, a totally revised, more functional version of the Go-To active standby mode is utilized – the biggest difference is the additional standby module customization, - to put that simply, you can set any of the integrated applications to submit full statistical information to the screen during standby cycle. However, this wasn’t included into the model in question, the additional standby functionality remains an exclusive feature of Nokia Eseries business phones.

The Go-To mode can be turned off should the user decide so. By default the Go-To mode presents a line of icons granting quick access to a total of 6 applications that can be viewed simultaneously, the number of shortcuts is limited and you can’t scroll along the shortcut panel. Both preinstalled and 3rd party applications can be given shortcuts on the panel, that comes in very handy for such user-installed applications like mobile ICQ clients and so on.

The set of various control buttons of Nokia 6120c is rather modest, the Edit (a.k.a. Pencil) button is missing – the # key is used instead; neither were we able to find Multimedia and Own keys providing quick access to a number of favorite applications.

The variety of devices based off FP1 can differ in some of the minor points like the menu elements arrangement and the order of icons, which doesn’t make a serious difference anyway since you can always customize this aspect to your liking.

The voice control can be activated by holding the right functional button pressed for a few moments. The application list consists of five items by default (Modes, Mailbox, Bluetooth, Voice Recorder, Camera), though a custom application can be added from a vast list.

Three themes come preinstalled on the device, all the three quite in the keeping with the classical look. The black and white Noir theme is known to have been already used in a number of Nokia models like 6300, that’s another fact helping you get the gist of Nokia’s positioning strategy. The screensaver is selectable from date and time clock (default), text message or an animation (each preinstalled theme comes with a brand screensaver). The animation requires for the play interval and backlighting duration to be specified, looks like the best variant to keep the both values same.

Phonebook and call service

The contact book is among the most powerful features of S60-based smartphones. Almost no difference can be observed on this front as compared to earlier versions. Some slight changes in the information field layout and visual effects are the only thing that makes a difference in this FP1-based firmware. The number of contact records is only limited to the amount of free user memory, which is quite typical of almost every smartphone. There are three types of fields for phone numbers, video calls, IP-phone numbers, fax numbers, e-mail address, web address, mail addresses and a single type of field for pager number, first and last name, note and date. Only one Name/Last name and Birthday record can be set per contact, but the rest of the fields can be ‘cloned’ as many times as you wish. The mail address field includes seven subfields. The Symbian’s field renaming feature is quite expectedly included in the phonebook service. Not only the phone number, but as well the e-mail address, video call number, SMS, MMS and PPT contacts can be set as standard. The PhotoID service stays same with previous versions, so you might want to look for a 3rd party application since Nokia sticks to their purposely limiting this functionality. The very word ‘thumbnail’ is just enough to ascribe the deal. A contact can be associated with a VideoID clip that would play every time this person calls you over the phone. The priority is given to the VideoID should a contact have both a picture and a video associated. The ringtone will be completely replaced with the video soundtrack, which to some would appear annoying. Only .mp4 files can be used by the VideoID function.

The integrated voice synthesizer can pronounce the name of the person who are calling you. First a ringtone is played once, then the name is pronounced and the ringtone follows again in an endless loop. The only thing you need to use it is to activate it. The same synthesizer is used for voice dialing - so you don’t have to leave voice marks, only the contact name needs to be spoken out for the dialing to start. The accuracy of recognition is rather high, in most cases it works without any need to repeat things twice. However in a very noisy environment you might happen to be forced to. There’s nothing much special about the speed dial option.

The call logs are organized just as in the previous versions: Incoming, Dialed and Missed calls are displayed on the three respective lists, no uniform list comprising the three kinds is available, unfortunately. Switching between the lists is done by pressing the navigation button sideways. The maximum period of time for which call information can be stored is one month, which can be further customized to ten or one day. A number of filters can be applied to the call log, each call event can be viewed separately with all the detailed information.

Messaging

The phone supports SMS, MMS and E-mail functionality. Nothing really remarkable is seen on this front: just the usual set of functions necessary for everyone like templates, t9, drafts, saving messages to the memory card (supported both for SMS and MMS). The text input is done in the quite traditional manner, switching between languages is done in the context menu, the # serves for the rest of the functions of the missing Edit button – caps lock, num lock, copy and paste.

Switching between received, sent and other kinds of messages is done by pressing the joystick or the navigation button sideways, it’s quite comfortable and eliminates the necessity to get back to the messages menu every time now and again, the tabs representing each category of messages are shown in a row at the top of the screen. Messages can be sorted by date, sender, subject and the type of the message itself. You can move messages between folders and create an unlimited number of custom folder inside the My Folder directory.

The delivery notes are stored separately, they can be discarded both one by one or by the whole stock. The user can specify if they want the delivery notes to be sent both for MMS and SMS messages or any one of the two kinds.

The MMS service is comfortable, the maximum message size is limited to 300 Kb, an image, an audio clip (talk record) and a video clip can be attached to the message. MMS options include the image size setting - original, small and large. The message text can either precede or follow the multimedia content. The address field isn’t just limited to a single line of text, it also optionally contains the Subject or Carbon Copy fields.

Upon creating an MMS message the context menu offers to compose a slide show. Should the user agree, a total of four templates are displayed - Image (image slides), Video (video snapshot slides, Thumbnails (pairs of two), and Headers (each slide is shown with a text header). The templates are easy to handle, allowing for creation of impressive animated messages.

The e-mail client supports the SMTP/POP3/IMAP4 protocols. Upon creating a new mailbox a special wizard is launched, automating the process to the point where it becomes totally easy even for an inexperienced user. Some of the fields are filled autmatically, tips are displayed during each step, the only thing that is directly required from the user is to specify the mailbox and server type.

Scheduled e-mail checks are supported, three modes for downloading mail to the smartphone are available: headers only, full messages or full messages with attachments. The volume of downloaded information can also be limited to a specified number of incoming messages, or alternatively, all of them can be downloaded upon every e-mail check.

Voice messaging is supported: the text field is substituted with a large icon, the activation of which will bring up the voice recorder interface and the recording begins immediately. After recording the message, the maximum length of which is limited to two and a half minutes, the icon changes its looks. If you want to record the message again, you can delete the previously recorded one from the message by pressing the C button.

The incoming messages can be read aloud by the integrated speech synthesizer. The implementation isn’t too good, it’s inferior in quality as compared to Nokia 5500 sport, the controls are somewhat awkward. The speech volume is adjustable, ranging from 1 to 10. The only preinstalled voice is Ellen, an AI English speaker, surprisingly no other languages are supported. Also there’s no way to specify a folder for the system to read messages from, in other words the phone only recognizes the Incoming folder but won’t let to choose the e-mail folder which otherwise would be great. Unfortunately, copying e-mail messages to the Incoming folder doesn’t improve the situation – the application only recognizes text messages. But the biggest minus is the lack of an automatic or quick launch option for the speech synthesizer, in other words you have to go though a few menus every time you want to use that functionality. So with the N81 handset it’s easier to read a message than listen to it.

PIM

The personal information manager comprises a number of applications including: Measures and Currencies Converter, Notes, Voice Recorder and Calculator. The converter and calculator are quite standard applications found on many phones based off the same platform: the convertor acts in full accordance with its name, converting a selected currency or measure into another kind, the calculator is very primitive and only supports the very basic arithmetic.

The alarm clock has quite a number of settings as compared to what we had with pre-FP1 devices. Besides a one-time signal, the alarm clock supports a schedule on a weekday basis, the signals can be one-time and recurring, it’s possible to set a signal to be played once a week or daily, on a specified weekday only, on workdays or on weekends. Although the application doesn’t allow to configure a signal to be played on a manually selected number of days, limiting the user to the options listed above. There’s an option to set any weekday save for Sunday as a workday. Any custom ringtone can be used for an alarm clock signal.

The calendar supports four viewing modes: by month, week or day (hour-based schedule is available in this case), or as a task list featuring completion deadlines. Stats on the number of completed and unfinished tasks can be displayed on the screen during standby. Customizable default values include the calendar signal, the starting weekday and the default viewing mode.

Four types of events can be associated with a particular date: meeting, reminder, anniversary or task. Upon adding a new event, the user is asked to specify the place/subject, start and end time and/or date, alarm signal, repeating signal, synchronization type (personal / shared), everything looks very simple yet efficient. Once an event is specified, a colored corner is added to the date record which displays a pop-up with detailed description if you hover the cursor over it; if you jump to a specified date, a full schedule for that date is shown. Upon adding a new event, a reminder signal can be set to play daily, weekly, once in a fortnight, etc. Also you are prompted to specify an expiration date for the signal – once the day comes, the reminder deactivates itself. The calendar functionality of the model should be highly praised, judging by our experience.

The office applications are in essence the classical QuickOffice for viewing Microsoft Office files: Word(*.doc), Excel (*.xls), PowerPoint(*.ptt). A number of Office versions are supported Office (97, 2000, and XP) though the compatibility doesn’t embrace all the existing versions. The document editing functionality doesn’t depend on the S60 FP1 platform, that’s why you have to install a full version of QuickOffice to be able to edit such documents.

Nokia Web Browser

One of the main changes in Feature Pack 1 is the improved web browser. The browser went through a significant update - the famed Konqueror project has been put in the foundation of the application, also used as the software component stock for Apple’s Safari Web Browser. Nokia Web Browser involves a most useful functionality providing for comortable Web surfing: HTML 4.01 (full support for tabs, frames and forms), JavaScript 1.5, CSS1 and CSS2, RSS. The browser interface is translated into 46 languages, though not every language is supported by a specific version of the device. The number of supported languages is hardcoded in the phone’s firmware depending on the region of sale.