subject: The Nokia C5 is a reminder of how Nokia perfected the mass market mobile phone back in the day [print this page] Nokia have gone back to there routes with the design of the Nokia C5. Smartphone or not the C5 is well equipped for web surfing, social networking and e-mail. There is also built-in multimedia with a digital camera and GPS. Nokia have left out things like a touch screen and instead gone for a more simple approach with simple yet efficient functionality.
At first glance the C5 is quite unassuming, but when you pick it up and have a little play you can see what all the fuss is about. To handle, the phone is quite extraordinary; it feels luxurious and expensive and the gelled alloy finish to the body work feels nice to touch. This phone is unmistakably a Nokia phone, even without the logo. The C5 is a reminder of how Nokia perfected the mass market mobile phone back in the day; the 2.2 inch screen is capable of displaying up to 16 million colours in QVGA (320 x 240) resolution.
The candy bar device features a five-way navi key as the main form of interface interaction and the Symbian S60 OS allows the device to run smoothly. The three-by-four grid of alphanumeric keys will take you back to the days when you were texting your buddies under the school desk and there will plenty of opportunities to use them as the device is packed full of messaging options ranging from your standard SMS and MMS, to things like e-mail, instant messaging and social networking.
The Nokia C5 is ready and raring to go straight out of the box, Nokia have pre-loaded a number of widgets for Facebook, Ovi Maps and full access to the Ovi Store as standard. The Ovi Store is useful for building an app collection, but if you want, you can simply check out the other software updates, themes and games it has to offer. Being an app based phone, Nokia have also pre-loaded tons of other Ovi goodies which can be found in various clients throughout the phone. The C5 has a full web browser equipped with 3G for fast download speeds and though there is very little real estate for web pages to spread across they still manage to load quite smoothly.
16GB of external memory can be added via microSD, this means plenty of potential space for audio files, videos, pictures and documents. The 3.2MP camera is fully capable of producing some pretty good still images as well as reasonable videos and sharing is possible via the phones send to web facilities. The camera is tricked out with LED flash, EDOF focus technology and a secondary camera is in place for video calling. A capable video player can play multiple file codec's while the music player is supported by an FM radio receiver and a 3.5mm audio jack for headphones.
The Nokia C5 could be considered vintage by the standard of its looks, but advanced by the standard of its performance. Nokia have found just the right blend of looks and performance to appeal to the older business user, the phone has also been enriched with an Office Adobe viewer and plenty of document editing tools. Nokia haven't gone out of there to compete with anyone with the C5 as there are very few phones like it at the moment.
The Nokia C5 is a reminder of how Nokia perfected the mass market mobile phone back in the day
