Nokia C5 – C Series Smartphone Review

Nokia C5 is a symbian s60 based smart phone. Nokia C5 is a cool looking phone with simple and attractive design, thanks to the metal parts. This handset comes boxed with a stereo headset, 2GB microSD card, charger, USB cable and user manual. Despite of the metal parts, the phone is not hefty.

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Nokia C5 comes with striking features like 3G, 3.2MP camera, bluetooth, GPS, SNS support, multimedia player, spacious keypad…etc

Design: Nokia C5 has a simple and attractive design with decent looks. This phone weighs 89gm and its dimensions are 112x46x12.3 mm. The handset has a 2.2″ QVGA display, a resolution of 320x240px and 16 million colors support.

Due to the large keypad, texting in this phone becomes pretty simple.

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Battery: Nokia C5 is powered with 1050mAh Lithium Ion battery that provides 12h talktime (2G) and around 4.9h talktime (3G). The standby time is around 630 hrs.

Memory: The internal memory of Nokia C5 is 50mb and is expandable upto 16GB through a microSD card.

Connectivity and Internet: In Nokia C5, data transfer can be availed through bluetooth with A2DP and USB. Internet surfing is through GPRS and EDGE. Doesn’t support WiFi.

Nokia C5 is integrated with SNS providing quick access. The web browser supports full HTML and flashlite v3.1

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Camera: Nokia C5 is equipped with a 3.2MP camera, 4x zoom along with flash and focus. It is also capable of shooting 640x480px videos at 15fps

Multimedia: The music player is with a simple interface. Nokia C5 supports all popular audio and video formats. The built-in equalizer helps to boost the sound effect.

GPS: Nokia C5 supports A-GPS with lifetime free navigation subscription for ovi-maps. It locates your current position on the map within few seconds, thanks to the A-GPS feature.

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Price: Nokia C5 is priced between 7000 – 8000 INR

That’s all for now… Feel free to share your views and opinions about this phone.

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Nokia C5 - C Series Smartphone Review, 9.3 out of 10 based on 3 ratings


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15 Responses to “Nokia C5 – C Series Smartphone Review”

  1. Rojish

    Mar 27. 2011

    All the C series phones are attractive and economical. I am considering either C5 or C6 for my next phone.

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    • TechCrates

      Mar 27. 2011

      Good to know that…Do share your views if you consider c5 as your next phone

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  2. Tony

    Mar 27. 2011

    Cheap phone is that.

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    • TechCrates

      Mar 27. 2011

      not that cheap…. but average priced

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  3. Gaurav Garg

    Mar 27. 2011

    Yes It is a average Mobile… Not a cheap m using Nokia C5 Having good features.. i had buy it from my last Google Adsense Income…. Hehehhe

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    • TechCrates

      Mar 27. 2011

      Good to know that….and glad to see you once again at my blog 🙂

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  4. Dana

    Mar 28. 2011

    In my country, Nokia C5 series is quite populars since the features are complete with reasonable price.

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    • TechCrates

      Mar 28. 2011

      all the c series phones are popular here too….

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  5. TechCrates

    Mar 28. 2011

    wow.. thats cheap for a great list of features..will kep this in mind..

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    • TechCrates

      Mar 28. 2011

      Well…good to know that 🙂

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  6. Tony

    Apr 02. 2011

    Thank you for your review. I like this one too.

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    • TechCrates

      Apr 02. 2011

      Good to know that…..

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  7. miami prostate cancer

    Oct 11. 2011

    What i like about Nokia phone’s is that it’s really affordable and it doesn’t sacrifice the phone’s functionality just because of it’s price.

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  8. techne

    Mar 16. 2012

    Agree with Rojish that All the C series phones are attractive and economical. Very good features. Thanks for review.

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    May 02. 2014

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