Introduction
If you are on the hunt for a stylish smartphone but you run a tight budget, chances are the Nokia C5 is on your radar already. The compact Symbian-running handset
looks well, costs little and can give you all the smart you need in a phone.
Nokia C5 official photosEven more so if you need your mobile phone to do voice-guided navigation. The Nokia C5 comes with a lifetime license that costs exactly zilch. Now, isn’t this one of the handsets to claim the best bang for your buck on the market? As always there’re compromises involved, but the price tag hanging on that metal body won’t make you think twice.Key features
- Quad-band GSM/GPRS/EDGE support
- Dual-band 3G (900/2100) with 10Mbps HSDPA and 2Mbps HSUPA
- Neat and well built, metal on the body
- 2.2" 16M-color QVGA display, excellent sunlight legibility
- Symbian OS, S60 3.2 user interface
- ARM11 600 MHz CPU, 128 MB RAM
- 3 megapixel fixed-focus camera with LED flash
- VGA video recording at 15fps
- GPS receiver and free lifetime voice-guided navigation license
- Stereo FM radio with RDS, Visual radio
- Bluetooth (with A2DP)
- Standard microUSB port (with charging support)
- microSD card slot (16 GB supported, 2GB included)
- Smart dialing
- 3.5mm audio jack
- Great audio quality
- Document viewer preinstalled
Main disadvantages
- No WLAN
- Small screen
- No accelerometer (hence no auto screen rotation)
- Fiddly memory card slot
- Document viewer doesn't support editing
Last week we reviewed the Nokia 6700 slide and while it wasn’t a revelation, it did well to reassure us Nokia still have it when it comes to neat, compact and affordable smartphones .The Nokia C5 is not so much a rival of the 6700 slide, but a partner in the lower end of non-touch smartphones. We won’t get tired of saying that giving the user a choice is a good thing – you can have (and pay for) only the features that you do need.
The Nokia C5 all overOne thing that the Nokia C5 won’t give you is WLAN. We’ve been there already with the 6700 slide. It certainly doesn’t look good on the spec sheet, but we hope the performance and ergonomics will make up for that.Down to earth retail package
The Nokia C5 is economy class and the retail package is simple and to the point. All the basics are covered and that’s that.
The modest retail packageThe 2GB microSD card and that tiny Nokia microUSB cable are identical to what you get with the Nokia 6700 slide, and so is the charger. In fact, the only change is the cheap-looking one-piece headset that this time goes into 3.5mm jacks.Nokia C5 360-degree spin
The Nokia C5 measures 112 x 46 x 12.3 mm (a volume of 56 cc), which makes for a pretty compact phone. We have seen smaller, of course, but slipping the C5 in your pocket will be no trouble at all.The metal rear might be adding a few grams but at 89.3 g of total weight, the Nokia C5 feels pretty light actually. The upside of this is you may as well forget about it in your pocket, but it does lack the solid feel that heavier phones give.
Design and construction
The Nokia C5 plays it safe on design and doesn’t try anything stupid. No, it’s not a phone that will turn any heads but the styling is unmistakably Nokia. There’s no display of finery, no E-series sophistication. The new C-series have a different brief – simplicity and reliability.
If you are on the hunt for a stylish smartphone but you run a tight budget, chances are the Nokia C5 is on your radar already. The compact Symbian-running handset looks well, costs little and can give you all the smart you need in a phone.
Nokia C5 official photos
Even more so if you need your mobile phone to do voice-guided navigation. The Nokia C5 comes with a lifetime license that costs exactly zilch. Now, isn’t this one of the handsets to claim the best bang for your buck on the market? As always there’re compromises involved, but the price tag hanging on that metal body won’t make you think twice.
Key features
- Quad-band GSM/GPRS/EDGE support
- Dual-band 3G (900/2100) with 10Mbps HSDPA and 2Mbps HSUPA
- Neat and well built, metal on the body
- 2.2" 16M-color QVGA display, excellent sunlight legibility
- Symbian OS, S60 3.2 user interface
- ARM11 600 MHz CPU, 128 MB RAM
- 3 megapixel fixed-focus camera with LED flash
- VGA video recording at 15fps
- GPS receiver and free lifetime voice-guided navigation license
- Stereo FM radio with RDS, Visual radio
- Bluetooth (with A2DP)
- Standard microUSB port (with charging support)
- microSD card slot (16 GB supported, 2GB included)
- Smart dialing
- 3.5mm audio jack
- Great audio quality
- Document viewer preinstalled
Main disadvantages
- No WLAN
- Small screen
- No accelerometer (hence no auto screen rotation)
- Fiddly memory card slot
- Document viewer doesn't support editing
Last week we reviewed the Nokia 6700 slide and while it wasn’t a revelation, it did well to reassure us Nokia still have it when it comes to neat, compact and affordable smartphones .
The Nokia C5 is not so much a rival of the 6700 slide, but a partner in the lower end of non-touch smartphones. We won’t get tired of saying that giving the user a choice is a good thing – you can have (and pay for) only the features that you do need.
The Nokia C5 all over
One thing that the Nokia C5 won’t give you is WLAN. We’ve been there already with the 6700 slide. It certainly doesn’t look good on the spec sheet, but we hope the performance and ergonomics will make up for that.
Down to earth retail package
The Nokia C5 is economy class and the retail package is simple and to the point. All the basics are covered and that’s that.
The modest retail package
The 2GB microSD card and that tiny Nokia microUSB cable are identical to what you get with the Nokia 6700 slide, and so is the charger. In fact, the only change is the cheap-looking one-piece headset that this time goes into 3.5mm jacks.
Nokia C5 360-degree spin
The Nokia C5 measures 112 x 46 x 12.3 mm (a volume of 56 cc), which makes for a pretty compact phone. We have seen smaller, of course, but slipping the C5 in your pocket will be no trouble at all.
The metal rear might be adding a few grams but at 89.3 g of total weight, the Nokia C5 feels pretty light actually. The upside of this is you may as well forget about it in your pocket, but it does lack the solid feel that heavier phones give.
Design and construction
The Nokia C5 plays it safe on design and doesn’t try anything stupid. No, it’s not a phone that will turn any heads but the styling is unmistakably Nokia. There’s no display of finery, no E-series sophistication. The new C-series have a different brief – simplicity and reliability.
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