subject: Nokia Flagship Features On The Nokia C7 [print this page] Positioned high up in its C-series of smartphones, the Nokia C7 brings near-flagship features on a non-flagship range but should be a welcome addition to the Finnish mobile phone giants stable of capable but lackluster smartphones.
The new Nokia runs the next generation Symbian^3 OS used for the first time in the N8 flagship and immediately you know it has little to best any competing Android smartphone in the same price point. Its definitely the first Symbian^3 in the C-series.
Feature-wise, it still remains inferior to anything the Koreans and Taiwanese have to offer but with Nokias current pricing strategy to maintain its market leadership, its smartphones products provide some of the best value handsets on the market today.
With styling cues borrowed from the 5800 XpressMusic but with more affinity to the C6 or the N97 minus the QWERTY slider, the Nokia C7 has the sleekest look among its current crop of full touchscreen handsets. It is marketed with black or white body color options.
Features Up Close
The Nokia C7 is a 3G phone on the dual band UMTS (1900/ 2100) radio. Theres no HSUPA but its HSDPA data speeds of up to 3.6 Mbps should bring broadband ease to any internet surfing experience.
Its also a quad band GSM (850/ 900/ 1800/ 1900) with class 32 GPRS/EDGE data connectivity. Theres no WiFi and no GPS but local high speed data transfers and synching gets microSD v2.0 and Bluetooth v2.0 with A2DP for the wired and wireless options, respectively.
Theres also no FM radio but it comes with the competent media players for audio files in the MP3, WMA, WAV and eAAC+ file formats as well as video in the MP4 and H.264/WMV file codecs.
Stereo listening can be had using your favorite high fidelity headphone from its industry standard 3.5mm stereo jack or you can go wireless using its A2DP support for Bluetooth stereo headsets. It also comes with stereo speakerphones on its body.
Software wise, the handset will have Push Email apps, IM supports as well as HTML browser with support for RSS feeds, Adobe Flash Lite v3.1 and a document reader for PDF and MS Office files.
Outstanding Features
Right away, the expansive 3.5-inch TFT capacitive touchscreen on the Nokia C7 on a thin 11 mm body is its immediate appeal and rightly so. It is the companys first mid-tier handset to have a capacitive multitouch touchscreen with its half-VGA (640 x 360) resolution and impressive 16 million color depth typical of many mid-tier Android handsets out there. It also comes with the proximity and accelerometer sensors that you expect in its class.
Imaging is at the top of the heap among camera phones thanks to its 8-megapixel shooter with autofocus and dual LED flash. It also enjoys 720p high definition video recording at 30fps frame rates. It also has a secondary camera supporting 3G video calls. Onboard memory is a generous 8 GB which should be sufficient for most multimedia storage requirements but as usual, you still get microSD support for external memory expansion up to 32GB. Theres also a 1200 mAh li-ion battery (BL-5K).
