Nokia C5 03

nokia c5 03 review

Release Date:  Q4 2010
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After Nokia C5, the Finnish company has introduced a new device in the Symbian™ touch screen C Series, called Nokia C5 O3. The major highlights of the mobile phone include 3G and Wi Fi connectivity along with a 3.2 inches touch screen and a 5 mega pixel camera. You can use the device as Sat-Nav because of its A-GPS support. In addition, there are microSD™ card slot, Push email, and much more. We will discuss these features in details in the following portions of the review.

The C5 O3 device is powered by S60 5th edition of Symbian™^1 and it features a unique colour scheme, which is two-toned. It comes loaded with several Ovi services and it will serve all your requirements along with navigation. The handset integrates Ovi Maps with lifetime voice guided navigation and a pre loaded compass. Nokia made the announcement of the mobile phone recently and it is expected to release by the end of 2010. There is a speculation that the retail price of the unit before subsidies and taxes would be £150.00 GBP. Let’s get on to the detailed review of Nokia C5 O3.

Nokia C5 O3 – Network and Connectivity

C5 O3 seems to be a feature rich mobile phone, and it maintains a decent network support. The users can access both 2G and 3G network options because the handset is supportive of the quad band GSM 850/ 900/ 1800/ 1900 and tri band HSDPA 900/ 1900/ 2100. Featuring good network options is essential as the basic functionality of any mobile phone is to establish proper connectivity. With the availability of the 2G and 3G networks, the users get assurance of receiving adequate service from their chosen network carriers.

Class 32 GPRS and EDGE support the basic connectivity options. However, for high browsing speed, you can get the connectivity of Wi-Fi® 802.11 b/g with UPnP technology and HSDPA (up to 10.2 Mbps). Transferring data to/from other compatible devices has become a common practice among the mobile phone users these days. For this purpose, you can establish connectivity by using microUSB v2.0 and Bluetooth® v2.0.

Nokia C5 O3 – the Appearance

C5 O3 looks quite attractive, if not stunning. The use of a body different colour at the bottom of the display screen looks elegant. The handset is coming up with a wide range of colours such as petrol blue, aluminium grey, lime green and graphite black. For some buyers, look of the mobile phone plays a major role and C5 O3 appears to be slim and attractive. The measurements of the phone are 105.8 x 51 x 13.8 inches and it weighs 93 grams. Therefore, you can easily put the device into your pocket.

The display screen of Nokia C5 O3 measures at 3.2 inches and it is a TFT resistive touch screen. Those who have seen or used old handsets like Nokia 5800, they should be familiar with this kind of TFT resistive touch screen display. However, comparatively newer Symbian™ devices such as Nokia X6 generally include a capacitive touch screen. It seems that Nokia focused on the budgetary part and decided to stick to the TFT touch screen variety. However, the display is capable of providing 360 x 640 pixels and 16 million colours. Other highlights of the display include accelerometer sensor for auto rotate, proximity sensor for auto turn off, and hand writing recognition.

The front panel of the display is coved mainly by the 3.2 inches touch screen. On top of the display and the back, you will find the ‘Nokia’ logo. The major function keys are placed at the bottom of the display.

Nokia C5 O3 – the Memory

Availability of good memory features is essential to use the features of the present generation mobile phones. The handsets include a wide range of features and applications, and you cannot enjoy these performances smoothly if your phone lacks a decent storage capacity. Nokia C5 O3 can practically unlimited fields and entries of the phone book and detailed call records with 40 MB of internal storage. However, this much memory support is not enough and hence the device includes a microSD™ card slot, which helps you to increase the storage capacity up to 16 GB. You will also get a 2 GB memory card free at the time of purchase.

Nokia C5 O3 – Camera

Camera feature is one of the most vital highlights of the mobile phones. It gives a handy experience for the users to capture various moments on the move. Nokia C5 O3 includes a 5 megapixel camera with 2592 x 1944 pixels resolution and geo tagging. However, the drawback of the camera seems to be the exclusion of flash. You can record videos with the camera at VGA@15fps, which is not very exciting. However, there is no secondary camera for video calls as well.

Nokia C5 O3 – Music and Video

The other major multimedia attractions of a mobile phone is the media player. With a good media player, you can play diverse types of music and video files. C5 O3 includes a music player and it can play different files such as MP3/ WAV/ ?AAC+/ WMA . If you want to stream videos, then you can play the video playback, which can MP4/ H.263/ H.264/ WMV files. There is a TV-out port in the mobile phone, which enables you to watch your favourite videos on your television.

Nokia C5 O3 is an easy to use handset that runs on the Symbian™ OS v9.4 (Series 60). Its advantage is the affordable price tag.