Nokia and Vodafone announce the 6124 Classic (S60 3rd Edition)

At CeBIT today, Nokia and Vodafone announced an exclusive-to-Vodafone handset, the 6124. Obviously based on the 6120 Classic, this phone follows the tradition of adding a "4" to the index for heavily Vodafone-branded iterations (a la 6234).

What is of note here is that the 6124, like the 6120, runs S60 3rd Edition Feature Pack 1 (or maybe 2?). The specs are left unchanged from the 6120 (2MP camera, LED flash, HSDPA, no WiFi, no GPS, 2 inch 240 x 320 screen, 64 MB RAM, 35 MB user memory, microSDHC slot, Bluetooth 2.0, and so on).

All that is changed is the design (the front plate now follows Nokia's recent design trends) and, of course, the Vodafone branding.

Software-wise, we can also expect a lot of Vodafone apps and services to clutter the menu up, as always with such releases.

The big advantage of this phone, when it will be released in the 2nd quarter, will probably be the price (on Vodafone contract, I mean). The 6120 Classic is the cheapest S60 3rd Edition phone on contract now, so it will be interesting to see how low the 6124 will go.

'Smartphone for the masses', sequel. Or Vodafone edition. And it looks really nice.
Very good.

Full press release here.