Nokia's attempts to bridge the gap among the spending budget complete from the marketplace and smartphones have often resulted in middling gadgets for something among £100 and £200. The Nokia C5-03 is one more in that fashion, also it does not include a substantial amount in the direction of bulging broad range of lower-end touchscreen handsets Nokia is pushing onto the market.

The design and design from the Nokia C5-03 isn't as well bad although - the glossy dark plastic material include feels pretty affordable as quickly when you 1st choose it up, however the sub-100g extra fat is amazing as well as the dinky dimension fits nicely within hand and pocket. We're not so optimistic concerning the 14mm depth although - it detracts from an otherwise pleasant-feeling unit within hand.

The display inside the cellular may be considered a mixed bag - the resolution is 'near HD' or 320x640, which could be completely acceptable for just about any cellular using a 3.2-inch display. Sadly, it's resistive, which signifies issues like typing at amount or multi-touch are out from the question. We appreciate pretty a few people nowadays want to take advantage of the display tech, however the show is as well tiny to take advantage of with gloves, so it's really limited to people people that like handwriting acceptance and/or have lengthy nails.

The C5-03 runs Symbian S60 edition 5, which could be really starting to really feel its age. It ought for getting noted that this iteration from the computer software inside the C5 is among the much better types we've observed - it's smooth to probably the most element and doesn't crash - however the convoluted menu options and insufficient numerous residence screens nevertheless grate massively.

Media is pretty common - movement photo playback appears excellent in the scaled-down display dimension and higher resolution, but it's a jerky know-how as well as the broad range of document types supported isn't amazing. music seems only a tiny better, regardless of receiving to jam headphones in to the socket to produce them work properly, using the bass quantities providing an amazing all round performance - as well as there's an equaliser to support level issues out if you're experiencing bad audio. 

Nokia C5-03 Review

Overall, we're only a tiny non-plussed over the C5. It's an acceptable cellular that's producing utilization of an OS in dire need of updating - if we'd experienced Symbian^3 on here, it may are actually only a tiny different. But see previous the battery life, and you'll realise the likes from the HTC Wildfire provide much better specs, a a complete great offer more eye-catching unit and at a reduced cost. once the Nokia C5-03 was £100 cheaper, then we'd be lauding it as among the best spending budget smartphones on the marketplace - but at its current worth point, it's mired in mediocrity.