Nokia C5-03 – Review, Features, Specs And Price

Not so long ago, Nokia launched its C- series of smartphone and the latest to join the bandwagon is the Nokia C5-03. You must not confuse Nokia C5-03 touch-screen phone with the previously launched Nokia C5.

Nokia C5-03 Review

With entrants like Apple, Google, HTC etc in the smartphone market, Nokia has been feeling the heat for quite sometime now. The competition for Nokia has become even more challenging with the launch of Samsung Galaxy 5, Samsung Galaxy 5, Apple iPhone 4 and Google Nexus S. The Finnish mobile phone giant has been trying to rejuvenate itself in the market by launching several value rich smartphones and Nokia C5-03 touch-screen phone is a step in this direction. Read on to know what this phone stores for you.

Nokia C5-03 Design and Display

In terms of design, Nokia C5-03 looks very stylish and the metallic finish along with rounded edges gives the phone a robust look. The phone is quite compact measuring 105.8 x 51 x 13.8 mm and is very light on your pocket weighing just 93 grams.

The 3.2 inches TFT resistive touch screen is capable of displaying 16M colors of resolution measuring 360×640 pixels and comes with an accelerometer sensor for auto rotate. Though the display is not compelling enough when compared to other smartphones yet it is quite reasonable. Below the display you can locate 3 buttons namely Menu, End and Call. The phone is equipped with a TV out cable which lets you connect the phone to your TV sets.

Nokia C5-03 Full Specifications

Nokia C5-03 comes with a pre-installed a 2GB memory card which lets you store a large number of phone call records, photo calls etc. The memory can be increased up to 16GB. Some of the other technical specifications of the phone are
• Alert types: Vibration; Downloadable polyphonic, MP3 ringtones
• Speaker Phone: Yes
• CPU: ARM 11 600 MHz processor
• Games: Yes+ downloadable
• GPS: Yes, with A-GPS support; Nokia Maps
• Java: Yes, MIDP 2.1
• OS: Symbian OS v9.4, Series 60 rel. 5

Nokia C5-03 Connectivity and Networking

Nokia C5-03 offers you with a wide choice of connectivity options. There is support for 2G (GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900) and 3G network (HSDPA 900 / 1900 / 2100). There is support for GPRS (Class 32), EDGE (Class 32) and Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g. Connectivity is further enhanced by Bluetooth 2.0 with A2DP profile. The phone supports several third-party web browsers such as Opera Mobile, Opera Mini and Skyfire.

The phone is equipped with a stereo FM radio and offers a solid audio quality thanks the 3.3 mm audio jack. Nokia C5-03 supports all kind of audio and video formats such as MP4, 3GP, WAV, WMA, AAC etc.

Nokia C5-03 Colors

The phone is available is a wide range of colors such as Black, Petrol, Blue, Aluminum Grey, Graphite and Green.

Nokia C5-03 Camera And Video

The phone comes with a 5 mega-pixel camera which is capable of clicking pictures of resolution measuring 2592×1944 pixels. We were highly disappointed to find that the camera lacks autofocus and LED flash. So if you wish to click sharp pictures in dim light, you will be highly upset. Moreover, there is no lens protection thereby making the camera vulnerable to scratches.

Video quality is not up to the mark and the phone can shoot VGA at only @ 15 fps, which is highly unsatisfactory. Nokia C5-03 by no means can be termed as a camera phone.

Nokia C5-03 Battery

The phone is powered by a standard Li-Ion 1000 mAh battery which offers a standby up to 600 hours on 2G and up to 500 hours on 3G. The phone offers a talk-time of nearly 9 hours when operated on 2G and up to 4 hours when operated on 3G.

Nokia C5-03 Accessories

The phone comes with standard accessories such as battery, manual, charger and USB cable. You can buy other accessories of your need from the market.

Nokia C5-06 Launch Date

The phone announced in October 2010 has been released in December 2010.

Nokia C5-03 Cost and Verdict

In UK, the phone is priced at £ 168 (approx) and in the US the phone can be snapped for $ 300 (approx). The cost of the phone in India is approximately Rs 10,500.

If you are looking for a budgetary smartphone then you can bank upon Nokia C5-03. But the phone’s poor camera and video quality coupled with its OS seems to work highly against it. With several Android phones filling the market, Nokia C5-03 will find it increasingly difficult to survive in the competition.