Nokia C5-03 review

The Nokia C5-03 is a very eco-friendly gadget – 80% of the phone body is recyclable, while half of the packaging comes from recycled material and a S60 5th Edition device with a single tap interaction UI and a resistive touch screen with tactile feedback. The device has a 3.2", bright nHD (640 x 360 pixels and 16:9 aspect ratio) display with a customizable home screen. Input methods include full screen QWERTY, alphanumeric keypad and handwrite recognition. Other features include a 5 megapixel camera with fairly basic video capture capabilities, WLAN connectivity, A-GPS and Ovi maps 3.0 so it should make a pretty good personal navigation device. There's also a good quality media player, FM radio and 3.5mm audio connector. A Bluetooth 2.0 +EDR, USB 2.0 High-Speed, Can also support cards of up to 16GB, internal memory of 40MB and 2GB SD card. Supported WCDMA frequencies vary based on region where the device is available:

It’s a low-price phone with some high-speed connectivity with 10.2Mbps HSDPA and 2Mbps HSUPA. The C5-03 also packs the fastest CPU available on a Nokia S60 device – at 600MHz the old but efficient Symbian just flies. The Nokia C5-03 is a grandson of the best-selling Nokia 5800 XpressMusic and though it might be the last hurrah for Symbian^1 (or Symbian S60 as old-timers call it) it tries to deliver the same level of satisfaction on the bang for buck meter. The C5-03 is a lot lighter than its more upmarket sibling, coming in at just 93 grams rather than the C6-01's 131 grams. Physically, both units are roughly the same size with the C5-03 coming in at 106 x 51 x 14mm. The C5-03's 1000 mAh battery is quoted as giving up to 4.5 hours talktime and 24 days standby time on 3G.

Key features

• Quad-band GSM/GPRS/EDGE support
• Tri-band 3G with 10.2 Mbps HSDPA and 2 Mbps HSUPA support
• 3.2" 16M-color TFT LCD resistive touchscreen of 640 x 360 pixel resolution
• 5 megapixel fixed-focus camera and VGA video @ 15fps recording; geotagging
• Symbian S60 OS
• 600 MHz ARM 11 CPU and 128 MB RAM
• Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g; UPnP
• GPS receiver with A-GPS support and free lifetime voice-guided navigation; free city guides and traffic information
• Digital compass
• 40MB on-board storage, microSD expandable up to 16GB; 2GB card included
• Built-in accelerometer
• Standard 3.5 mm audio jack
• Stereo FM Radio with RDS
• microUSB port (charging)
• Flash and Java support in the web browser
• Stereo Bluetooth 2.0
• Very good audio quality
• Voice commands