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| Nokia 6126 Phone (AT&T) | 
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| Brand: Nokia
Category: Wireless
This item is no longer available
Avg. Customer Rating:  32 reviews
Sales Rank: 6666
Color: Blue
Media: Wireless Phone
Battery Type: Lithium Ion
Display Size: 3
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0
Dimensions (in): 0 x 0 x 0
Model: 6126
UPC: 758478009628
ASIN: B000HAOYPA
Release Date: April 2, 2007
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| Customer Reviews:
 OK but has flaws September 29, 2007
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
My wife and I recently bought a pair of these phones, based on the recommendation of the sales person at the AT&T store. The good news is that the connectivity is excellent (at least in the Washington DC metropolitan area).
We both use our phones as business-like communication tools, not as personal entertainment devices (we have way better MP3 and digital photography devices). So what we most wanted from this phone is that it be a good phone and I'm not able to comment on its music or picture-taking ability. What I'm not happy with is as follows:
1. The voice quality is OK but not nearly as good as our previous LG phones. You will hear some distortion and fuzziness. Not a show-stopper but not great.
2. You may as well start by throwing away the manual that comes with the phone - it is totally useless. To use this phone, spend a lot of time walking through all the menus, which the manual will not help you with. The phone really does have excellent options in it, but you will definitely need to discover them yourself.
3. If you want to save the phone's contact list to your computer, don't bother with the free Nokia phone manager software. Like the manual, it is basically useless. You get what you pay for, so go to datapilot-dot-com and purchase their Datapilot software and be sure to purchase the bluetooth connector for this phone - Datapilot won't work with the Nokia USB cable but requires their own proprietary connection device (in the case of this phone, the Bluetooth connector, which is way cool). Datapilot is a good product that will allow you to edit the phone's contacts in a rational way. That software plus the Bluetooth connector cost more than the phone does, but it works with most cell phones so you'll be able to transfer the contact list between phones if you need to.
4. The phone uses Themes for the background graphic of the screen display. That's fine but if you're not a teenager and so you want a fairly plain, business-like theme, good luck. The phone, as configured for AT&T, only has one theme. Fortunately, it does have some plain ringer tones which you will ultimately discover by following #2 above.
The Nokia is basically a decent phone with a lot of capabilities, and is very inexpensive when purchased with an AT&T contract. Just be prepared to spend a LOT of time learning how to configure it (and I am a computer systems professional).
PS: we haven't had a problem with battery life but we only use our cell phones intermittently and charge them every night.
 3 Defective Phones from ATT and Counting August 17, 2007
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
I ordered this phone form Cingular (ATT) and today my third defective phone came in the mail. A customer service rep told me that 85% of all her returns and exchanges come from this model phone. The first phone had a handset speaker that didn't work and the next 2 were, in the words of the customer service rep, "DOA" -- dead on arrival. It would be a really nice phone if it worked though...
Good idea, not so great execution August 14, 2007
5 out of 6 found this review helpful
The phone has many great features and works well most of the time.
The battery life, while I didn't expect much, is pretty aweful. Especially compared to previously owned Nokias and my boyfriend's Sony W300i (similiar features and useage runs circles around my Nokia).
Three months of use and my internal screen does not turn on when the phone is opened if the phone has been idle. If I activate the external screen before I open the phone, or open and close the phone a couple times, no issues...but for fear of losing the internal screen permanently, I had the phone replaced.
AT&T sent me a remanufactured replacement for a brand new phone. I received it today and it crashed while loading my contacts from my SIM card.
For Mac users, this phone is not compatible with iSync, however a plugin can be found on a few websites. I still haven't experienced full compatibility with a couple different plugins.
Call quality is good, but antenna placement (it is at bottom) basically gives you one position to hold the phone without disrupting reception.
If you plan to use a card reader and SD adapter to transfer files from the MicroSD, be aware ringtones/profiles/ringer IDs programed from data on the card are reset to default. However, picture IDs remain, even if they are images from the card. The card isn't as easily accessible as I'd like it to be, but I had planned on using a card reader to get around the issues with iSync and the cumbersome use of Bluetooth File Exchange, mostly for music. I tried removing and replacing the card while the phone was off, but the phone only recognized the card again if it was on when the card was inserted.
Now, this may seem like nit picking, but the internal screen is not flush with the top piece, maybe a better discription is that it's considerably inset, nor is there a protective covering. Dirt, dust and oils collects around the edges of the screen quite quickly and it is nearly impossible to clean. Sounds anal retentive, I know, but it looks pretty gross pretty fast. Resist the urge to wipe it clean - because anything you wipe from the screen ends up in the crack.
I've used past phones for an average of two years or more, but somehow I don't see that happening with this phone. I'm pretty disappoined in both companies at this point.
 marks nokia's entrance into the world of flip phones July 14, 2007
6 out of 7 found this review helpful
this is an EXCELLENT phone. if you do your research, you will find that compared to the other phones currently offered at att, this one has the least amount of and least pressing quirks or issues.
i love everything about this phone. the ease of use, the extensive cusomizations, the high quality sound quality and reception (which are obviously the two most important things in a phone after all... and this one really has the best of both of those things out of all 4 phones ive owned so far.) the bright, stunning screen... its a sleek, stylish, highly functional phone.
the caveats of this phone, which are not numerous or severe enough to drop this review to 4 stars, are decent battery life, the 24 mb of memory... and that is honestly all i can think of.
Decent phone, but MP3 player add-on isn't worth it July 10, 2007
16 out of 22 found this review helpful
I really tried to do my research before I purchased this phone, but unfortunately most of the available reviews were short term users. I was already expecting below-average battery life and a sub par camera, but the benefits I was expecting outweighed these concerns for me. The major problems began to creep in with more use.
There are several good points to the phone. It really is a good-looking and well-built phone, and it just "feels right." The sound quality is excellent for both calls and music (assuming you have a stereo headset), and even the Bluetooth headset sound quality is head and shoulders above my old Motorola. The audio player is AAC/M4A capable. The resolution of both LCDs is great. Nokia PC Suite can sync the phone's calendar with Lotus Notes, a rare feature. I appreciate the release button more than I thought I would. I'm sure I'll miss that if my next phone doesn't have it. The only problem with the release button is sometimes accidentally pushing it as you pull out the phone while receiving a call. If the phone is set to automatically answer when it opens, the release gets pushed accidentally, and it's a call you don't want to take at the moment, you're stuck holding the phone closed until it stops ringing. Still a nice feature.
Moving on to the phone's problems: One might assume that the combination of Bluetooth and stereo MP3 playback on a phone would imply that the A2DP (stereo) Bluetooth profile is supported. Apparently, one would be wrong. Admittedly, I probably should have assumed no specific mention of A2DP implied that the phone does not support it, but it doesn't help that searching the internet yields mixed results on the issue, and even Nokia tech support still can't tell me one way or the other. As I can't get it to work with an A2DP gateway, it's probably safe to assume at this point that it doesn't support the profile.
The rest of the problems stem from the outdated Series 40 operating system and the phone's music functionality. The music player has been tacked on as an afterthought, which has severely overextended the capabilities of the OS. First, the music controls are very cumbersome, using a cursor system to activate on-screen buttons rather than using the phone's keypad for controls. Track numbers may be entered manually in the main player view but not in the playlist view.
The phone has apparently not been tested with "large" music libraries. I purchased a 2GB microSD card soon after the phone, ready to load it up with music. However, the music transfer application included with Nokia PC Suite develops problems when trying to read a library of anything over 2000 songs or so. The main issue is that the database of meta tags breaks around that point. Nokia tech support informed me that their test libraries are all around 1000 files or under. However, I'm sure I'm not alone in having a library of around 10,000 tracks or more these days. Fortunately, you can load music files manually through either data transfer mode on the phone, or directly to the card.
The problems don't end with the PC software, though. The phone does not organize tracks by subfolders; all tracks within the main music folder and all its subfolders are loaded into one huge playlist. For more specific selection, you either have to use the clumsy folder navigation interface and constantly reselect the main music folder, or you must manually create playlists with the music transfer software, which is time consuming and problematic with the issues I mentioned above. I plan to experiment with generic M3U playlists, but I don't have high hopes. And it gets worse: after filling up my 2GB card and manually creating a playlist for every album, which was 77 in total, attempting to change playlists now completely crashes the phone. It restarts and then reloads the entire library. For now, I'm navigating the huge playlist by guessing at track numbers, although you can only enter three digits. It's almost humorous what happens after track 999: the phone increments the first 9 to 10, so you see track 10 000 (except the last digit is partially cut off). At track 1100, you see 10 100 in the list.
It has begun to feel like I'm beta testing the software in this phone, even though I paid for it and signed my life away for another two years to get it. It has crashed more than ten times in the three months I've had it. I especially felt like a beta tester when Nokia tech support had me carry out experiments with my large music library and report back. I'm still hoping for a major firmware update, but I'm not holding my breath. Frankly, they just don't seem that interested in working out the kinks in this mid-market phone with its outdated software components.
I'd still recommend this phone if you don't have a large music collection and only want to use the music player very occasionally. If you won't use the music player at all, please buy a cheaper phone that doesn't have it. If you have a large collection and plan to use it regularly, as in my situation, I'd highly recommend spending a little more for something with at least the Series 60 OS, if you buy a Nokia.
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