With all the fanfare and attention Nokia has been getting lately surrounding their slew of ground-breaking new devices such as the N90 (which I wrote about here and here) it might be easy to overlook a somewhat less bleeding edge device announcment like the one on the 6125.

However, if you miss this announcement (and therefore don’t learn that the 6125 is a full featured quad band GSM Flip phone with a 1.3 megapixel camera with 8x digital zoom, that it has support for an FM Radio, a media player that plays MP3, AAC, WMA and MP4 files, also includes Bluetooth, Infrared, USB and a Micro SD slot for expanded media storage and sharing, and will be one of the first feature phones to ship with a Macromedia Flash player pre-installed) you’ll actually be missing something far more important than the announcement of a very nicely engineeered feature phone.

That’s because the midrange is where the bulk of all sales lie. While phones like the N90 are beautiful in terms of appearance and of course functionality, the reality is that few people are willing to pay the $700 or so dollars such a premium handset commands. In many respects this very expensive top-end phones are an advanced proof of concept that enables further distribution and testing of new technologies which will, as demonstrated by the 6125, find their way downstream in the near term where they become much more broadly accessible to the end user/consumer at a price point far more palatable to the average person and also a price point at which the carrier subsidy can have a meaningful impact such that the final price with a contract is something that doesn’t require financing.

What the Nokia 6125 and other similarly feature-packed mid-range phones portend is the shifting of a slew of technologies from the developmental or early production phase into the mainstream or production phase. You might even look at it as if these new advanced features have finally come off beta. What is amazing, if you take a step back and look at the feature sets available on today’s phones as compared even to a year ago and you’ll see a fairly amazing difference at all the things that are now starting to be standard features on phones that have carrier subsidized prices below $149.99.

In fact, I was just talking to the CEO of one of the largest companies the provides technology to the handset manufacturers and he was telling me about a major initiative at his company which will have a massive impact on the midrange sector. Sorry, I can’t tell you more…yet…but this shameless tease will have paydirt in the upcoming weeks as the aforementioned CEO has promised me an exclusive look at what he’s doing and why this is going to be such a big deal.

So now, as if you didn’t have enough reason to come back here every day just to read my partner’s insightful news and commentary, you have the potential to get a sneek peek at something very big that’s about to happen in mobile…

*Please note that the image above as well as the phone-specific details come courtesy of PhoneScoop.com