Nokia C5 – Simple, Social, Affordable

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Nokia-C5 imageYesterday, Nokia unveiled the new Nokia C5 mobile, which I would describe in just 3 words : Simple, Social, Affordable.

After talking about WM7 and  Symbian 3 last week, it seemed quite impossible for me to think that I would like another S60 mobile so much, but life is full of surprises … isn’t it?  This mobile looks extremely good and I find the stainless steel really cool and well polished.

The new mobile (which is actually a new series of mobiles) enters the Nokia lineup in a very good position. Yesterday Nokia have announce that the Nokia Ovi store is now seeing 22 app downloads per second and from the latest Admob report we can see that Symbian OS remains the most popular operating system in Southeast Asia and accounted for 77% of smartphone requests in Q4 2009.

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The new mobile will be available in the second half of 2010 in Europe, Southeast Asia, China and the Middle east and it will be a great and cheap “home” for all the OVI apps. With applications like Nimbuzz, that are already surpassing 1 million downloads at the moment, without the C series available yet, I predict great times ahead for OVI ;) !

Here are the key features of the new mobile:

  • 2.2″ display
  • 3.2 megapixel camera
  • 3.5 mm A/V connector
  • FM radio
  • 12 hours of talk time
  • GPS
  • Ovi Maps
  • microSD card slot
  • price -  €135 ($182) unsubsidized

Another cool social feature is that  you will be able to see status updates directly from Facebook friends  and update your own Facebook status  and share your location with Ovi Maps 3.0.

With the announcement of the new C series Nokia also explained the naming conventions for its four smartphone product families. The C series are low-end smartphones, the E series phones are for business users, the X series is for youth and music, and N series represents the most advanced models.

And if you are already looking for best mobile messenger for your C5, don’t worry  you will be able to install Nimbuzz on your brand new C5, which is the  Must Have Social Networking app of the year , as the OVI users decided :D .

Curios to see Nimbuzz in action on a Symbian mobile? Check out the video bellow:

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Via BGR, MobileCrunch and others

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Andrei Piftor (Andi) on March 3rd, 2010 in News

11 Responses to “Nokia C5 – Simple, Social, Affordable”

  1. Is this the mobile version of the Sinclair C5? Hope not. Looks like its designed for the general populous, and not just geeks. You forgot to tell us how much memory it has?

    Mike Butler March 3rd, 2010

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    Mobiele Telefoons » Nokia C5 u2013 Simple, Social, Affordable http://bit.ly/d0R8Oq #nimbuzz (via @nimbuzz) March 4th, 2010

  3. I really hope not ;) and internal memory can be up to 50 MB. Thanks for that ;)

    Andi Piftor March 4th, 2010

  4. i agree w/ Mike, u 4got to include internal memory capacity, i guess internet speed will be the same. But really 4 d budget its a good buy! One thing though i hope having a 3.2 cam, screen resolution would be fine.

    conrad March 4th, 2010

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    Mobiele Telefoons » RT @nimbuzz: Nokia C5 u2013 Simple, Social, Affordable http://bit.ly/d0R8Oq #nimbuzz March 5th, 2010

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    المالكي March 7th, 2010

  7. @المالكي
    In order to gather your feedback and comment, we kindly ask you to write in ENglish.
    Regards

    queralt escrich March 8th, 2010

  8. did you guys hear about the up coming x10 and n87 both touch screen running on a 600MHz processor and 256mb ram…!!! nokia’s first phones to have AMOLED (active matrix organic light emitting diode) !!! they both have capcitive touch screen (same tech as iphone) n87 is to have a 12 mp rear cam with xenon and infra red led to assits in night recording… capture movie in 720p hd!!!!! so awesome!!! cant wait!!!

    Yousuf Ali March 10th, 2010

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  10. The font, even the large font is quite small. the icons are rather small also. if only i can return my unit

    Marjorie Ponce July 12th, 2010

  11. @Marjorie Ponce
    There is not option to enlarge the font size, we will consider it to be implemented.
    Kind Regards

    queralt escrich July 12th, 2010


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