Nokia C5-03 is a decent phone, designed to help the average, common needs. So, if you want a good full-touch device with a long battery life-span and also available at a good price, you have found it. The C5-03 will provide all these plus some surprises. You’ll see what I’m talking about in the following review.
Key features:
Quad-band GSM/GPRS/EDGE support
Tri-band 3G with 10.2 Mbps HSDPA and 2 Mbps HSUPA support
3.2" 16M-color TFT LCD resistive touchscreen of 640 x 360 pixel resolution
5 megapixel fixed-focus camera and VGA video @ 15fps recording; geotagging
Symbian S60 OS
600 MHz ARM 11 CPU and 128 MB RAM
Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g; UPnP
GPS receiver with A-GPS support and free lifetime voice-guided navigation; free city guides and traffic information
Digital compass
40MB on-board storage, microSD expandable up to 16GB; 2GB card included
Built-in accelerometer
Standard 3.5 mm audio jack
Stereo FM Radio with RDS
microUSB port (charging)
Flash and Java support in the web browser
Stereo Bluetooth 2.0
Very good audio quality
Voice commands
Full specs here.
In the phone’s box, we can see the charger, microUSB cable, an one-piece headset and a 2GB memory card.
Measuring 105.8 x 51 x 13.8 mm and with a weight of 93 grams, the phone is very light and compact (according to my standards), feels comfortable in the hand and almost goes unnoticed in the pocket. If you’re not a fan of serious, kind of “ragged” phones, you’ll enjoy the phone’s rounded edges. They offer a more friendly aspect, don’t you think ?
The 3.2 inches resistive TFT LCD screen is decent enough, the sunlight legibility is not great, but not bad either and the viewing angles are okay. The touch sensitivity is very high and responsive, you don’t have to break your fingers when trying to use it. Even more, it gives feedback when touched (by vibrating), leaving the impression that you have actually pressed a button. It doesn’t support multi-touch, but the software and operating system are made so that you won’t need that function. Oh, it’s also very reflective when locked. My girlfriend played a little while with it and after getting bored, she happily noticed that the phone can be used as a mirror. Women…
Above the display is only the earpiece, meanwhile below it, there are three hardware controls: the call keys with the Menu key between them.
On the right side of the phone, you’ll come across the volume rocker and the lock key. Nothing found on the left side.
On the top, you’ll see the unprotected 3.5 mm audio jack and the microUSB port and at the bottom, the charger plug and mouthpiece.
The back houses the camera (also left without any protection) and the loudspeaker.
The phone comes loaded with a 600 MHz ARM 11 CPU, Symbian OS v9.4 operating system, 128 MB of RAM and 40 MB storage. Am I hearing some sighs ? Well, I’m sorry, but what did you really expect from a 2 year old phone ? I’m actually glad to tell you that it does very well when multi-tasking, for instance.
In terms of telephony, the phone does a great job, as the call quality is excellent and I didn’t have any reception problems either. You also have voice dialing and the built-in accelerometer provides you the option to silence incoming calls (or alarms) by flipping over the phone.
Messaging is also satisfying, the phone comes with SMS, MMS, Email, Ovi chat, Google Chat and MSN messenger. The QWERTY keyboard is also friendly.
One of the surprises that I have mentioned earlier is the connectivity support. This phone comes with tri-band 3G with HSDPA (10.2 MBps), quad-band GSM/EDGE, Wi-Fi b/g and Bluetooth 2.0 with A2DP.
The browser is another surprise, it’ll offer a nice experience, as the pages load pretty fast, you have auto filling, a password manager and you’re also allowed to change the font size, having 5 options for that. Flash support is also here.
The camera 5 megapixel takes pictures at the maximum resolution of 2592 x 1944 pixels. It comes without autofocus and LED flash, but the image quality is quite decent. You have a few scene presetes and settings for sharpness, contrast, color tone, exposure and white balance. The video camera shoots VGA at 13 fps and you have options for automatic of manual white balance, scene and color tone. Not so great video quality.
The very good music player supports MP3, WMA, WAV, eAAC+, you have the Album art feature and also equalizer presets. The audio quality is excellent.
The video player supports formats like MP4 and WMW and is decent enough, but not as good as it’s musical brother. One reason would be the lack of DivX and XviD support, but you can always convert video files to the format supported by your phone with the Ovi PC-Suite built-in application.
You also have FM radio with RDSwhich works pretty fine.
When it comes to applications, the Nokia C5-03 has a decent package filled with all kinds of useful stuff, like QuickOffice, which lets you view Word, Excel and PowerPoint files. No editing available and also, no PDF viewer. You have two talking and non-talking dictionaries and clients for Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, YouTube and Friendster. No games found, but you can access the Ovi Store for all the apps you need.
The phone also provides a built-in GPS receiver with A-GPS support and for navigation, it has Ovi Maps 3.0 preinstalled. It gets the job done quite good, I didn’t have any problems and it offers for free some very useful features, like city guides and traffic information.
This phone is going to be your best buddy, for it has a 1000 mAh battery that will strongly resist over a day and a half even when being intensively used.
In conclusion, this phone is definitely worth buying, for it comes at a small price and offers quite a lot, don’t you agree ? And I almost forgot, for the green heart users,the C5-03 is a very eco-friendly gadget – 80% of the phone body is recyclable, while half of the packaging comes from recycled material (and all of it is recyclable in turn).
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