The Nokia C7 - Cutting Edge Phone Technology

The Nokia C7 - Cutting Edge Phone Technology

Nokia have spent recent years battling with Apple and HTC in the smartphone market. Whereas Apple's sales pitch tends to focus on the end user experience and HTC on their ever evolving Android software, Nokia have chosen to try to compete on hardware, an area they have done well with in recent years.

The Nokia C7 is something of a departure then, with Nokia's sales pitch focussed on the fact that the C7 is amongst the first handsets to use the new third edition of the Symbian operating system. It's still no slouch in terms of its technical specification however, featuring a large 3.5 inch AMOLED glass capacitive touchscreen capable of displaying 720p video, and looking amazing while doing it. The case design is also very fashionable at less than 11mm thick and features a stainless steel frame that feels expensive and tough.

The front of the Nokia C7 is taken up by its large touchscreen, but there is also space for call start and end buttons plus a generic menu button. Mounted on the back of the handset is an additional microphone to provide noise-cancelling functionality, and the C7 includes a very impressive 8 megapixel camera capable of recording 720p video. Internal memory is 8GB out of the box, but this can be easily increased by adding microSD cards up to 32GB.

The Nokia C7 uses the latest Symbian 3 OS, which has been heavily modified for use on touchscreen devices and comes with contact integration for social networking websites like Facebook and Twitter. The three available accessible home screens are fully customizable with widgets for showing unread emails, weather and news reports, location details, and contacts social networking status. The Nokia C7 comes with support for Microsoft Exchange and up to 10 webmail accounts, plus true seamless multi-tasking and excellent media player functionality.

Symbian 3 marks a huge improvement over previous versions, but it still falls behind iOS and Android in many areas. This is a real shame, as in terms of hardware, Nokia have created another powerful handset that is entitled its place in any smartphone buyer's shortlist. Unfortunately, the attractive styling and excellent battery performance cannot substitute for a lack of quality free widgets and an onscreen keyboard that makes text entry a chore. Because so much of the modern smartphone experience is dependant on the operating system, Nokia's failure to effectively compete in this area becomes a real handicap, and so it's hard to recommend the Nokia C7 over similarly priced handsets from HTC or Samsung.

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