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The Nokia C7 is a dreamily serviceable smart phone at a decent price. Its slim metal case, long battery life and heaps of features nearly make up for its clunky user interface — but not quite. It’s available for free on a £20-per-month contract, or £300 on a pay as you go deal. You can also pick it up for around £320 SIM-free.

Keyboard carnage

The Nokia C7′s touchscreen is the capacitive type, which is a big improvement over the resistive variety that we’ve seen on previous Nokia touchscreen phones, like the Nokia 5800 XpressMusic. Resistive screens require the application of pressure or a stylus, and they don’t feel as fast or responsive as the capacitive type. In our tests, the Nokia C7′s screen proved extremely zippy and responsive.

Smart features

The Nokia C7 includes access to Nokia’s Ovi Store, which contains apps that you can download and install on the phone. The Ovi Store doesn’t come close to offering the variety of the iPhone’s App Store, but there are plenty of good choices available, and Nokia is working hard to encourage developers to get more in there. You don’t even have to spend a penny if you stick to free apps, although some of the paid apps are pricier than average. For example, the popular Twitter app, Gravity, has heaps of fans, but costs an eye-watering £8.

Megapixel mambo

The Nokia C7 has an 8-megapixel camera, and it did a decent job in our tests. Photos tended to be less sharp than we’d like, but we’d be very happy to have the C7 in our pockets if we needed to capture a quick snap. There are also two LED photo lights on-board to help with dark situations, although these tend to be very harsh, so get ready to blind your friends if you’re snapping them down the pub.

Conclusion

If you really want to get stuck into the wonderful world of smart phones, there are plenty of Android handsets coming out at insanely low prices. They’ll give you widgets that work, an app store that’s stuffed with choices, a fantastic on-screen keyboard, and support for all the email accounts you can muster. Because of that, the Nokia C7 struggles to keep up, despite its strengths. Now the decision is yours whether you will buy the set or not.

Introduction

Dubbed the company’s most compact smartphone to date in terms of cubic inches overall, the Nokia 700 is indeed a neatly packed tiny handset running the new Symbian Belle.

The phone has a pretty good laundry list of specs for its price point, and should appeal nicely to those who like their phones in small sizes with a variety of colors to choose from. Is this enough to battle formidable opposing hobbits like the Sony Ericsson Xperia ray? Read on to find out…

In the box

• In-ear headphones
• Wall charger
• microUSB cable
• Warranty and information leaflets

Design

We mentioned the Xperia ray in the intro, since that’s exactly the phone that the Nokia 700 reminded us of when we grabbed it at first. The Nokia  700 is slightly thicker, but shorter and less wide, thus indeed stuffing the least cubic inches of all smartphones, although the difference is minimal. As you can imagine, it is very easy to handle and operate with one hand, and even gets lost in your palm if you have larger hands.

The 3.2” ClearBlack AMOLED display boasts nice, saturated colors, great contrast and viewing angles, and good pixel density at 220ppi, courtesy of the typical for Symbian 360×640 resolution. To top it off, the screen is pretty bright, ensuring above average visibility outside, which we don’t see often with Super AMOLED displays, for instance.

The Nokia 700 has a metallic battery cover, which comes in different colors, always matching the variety of colors the phone chassis is offered in. The chrome-like lock button, volume rocker and camera key on the right also add some pizzazz, but are too smallish and flush with the surface to be found comfortably, and their travel is pretty shallow, especially the lock key. Below the Gorilla Glass screen protection in the front we also have three physical buttons – call, end and menu – positioned on a plastic bar. They have a good travel and click to them, but again come smallish for larger digits. The loudspeaker grill is frontal and recessed, making the phone look like a slider.

Conclusion

Nokia 700 is not only attractive to look at but also full of helpful for many business solutions. You can suggest anyone to buy the mobile set if the looking for.

Introduction

The Nokia 500 is the mass production of the new Nokia Symbian line, as it has the lowest specs out of the bunch publicized in time for the holiday shopping craze. With that said, it’s no slouch, as it sports a decent display with 229ppi pixel density, 5MP camera and a 1GHz processor, based, however, on the older ARM 11 architecture

The Finns have skimped on things like an LED flash, and the internal memory – the handset has only 2GB – to keep costs down. The Nokia 500 ships with Symbian Anna distinct from the rest of the new kids on the Symbian block, but is expected to receive a Belle upgrade further down the road.

An affordable handset from Nokia with decent specs and some colorful battery covers thrown in to keep things exciting is usually a Finnish recipe for achievement among teens and in emerging markets, but is that the case with the Nokia 500? Read on our review to find out…

What’s in the box:

• One Nokia 500 handset
• Two extra swappable battery covers in different colors
• Wall charger
• MicroUSB cable
• Stereo headset with microphone
• Manual and warranty leaflets
Design:

The Nokia 500 is a true candybar phone with its narrow rectangular front, but turn it on its face to review the 5MP camera and the speaker grill, and a nice curved back is exposed. The tapered form and soft-touch plastic finish of the battery cover, plus the fact that the handset is chubby at 0.55” (14.1mm), make it very comfortable to hold and operate with one hand.

The 3.2” plain LCD display is not with the best viewing angles out there, but it’s bright enough, and, thanks to Nokia’s usual 360×640 pixels, sports 229ppi pixel density, which is above average for the phone’s category, and helps when reading small text.

Conclusion

Finally we can say that the Nokia 500 is the slimmest, best-looking and most usable mobile phone. Its affordable price with decent specs and some colorful battery covers thrown in to keep things exciting is usually a Finnish recipe for success among teens and in emerging market. So if you are looking for a hand set you should go for Nokia 500. I am recommending this set because it is the perfect place to invest.

With the combination of excellent features and performance of Nokia E71 matched with sleek design and its affordable price tag it manages to outshine recently released smartphones as our business phone of choice.

Design

We all know that Nokia has taken last year’s E61 to the guillotine and, after a few simple strikes, has returned with one of the most attractive smartphones on the market at this time. Interestingly, this is where the smartphone market is finding the battle-lines drawn. The chart of available specifications has become somewhat stagnant, and with Apple teasing the competition with the super-desirable iPhone, everybody else has been forced to play dress ups to catch the eye of fashion hungry business types.

Features

As a combination of both hardware and software, Nokia’s E71 is one of the best featured smartphones we’ve seen this year. Indeed, smartphone hardware advancement is reaching a plateau with most of the phones in this category featuring a very similar combination of HSDPA data speeds, Wi-Fi and A-GPS connectivity.

When your working week is finished and you feel like escaping from the stranglehold of business messaging, the Nokia E71 features a profile switching mode to change not only the phone’s appearance, but also active email accounts and its settings. This profile switching is fast enough that you could switch over to your personal profile at lunchtime and respond to your mate’s emails on your G-mail or Yahoo accounts any time.

Performance

Reading the white sheet for the Nokia E71 you may think this new Nokia is drastically underpowered. Its 369MHz ARM processor and 128MB RAM seem underwhelming on paper compared with the 620MHz processor Apple use in the iPhone and the 192MB RAM HTC has crammed into the Touch Diamond. However, spec-crunching aside, the Nokia E71 keeps up with its competitors with lightning fast navigation and processing, even when multitasking. Lag spikes are infrequent and the Series 60 operating system has been impressively stable during our tests.

Conclusion

Perhaps the most astonishing fact is that on top of Nokia E71‘s list of improvements, Nokia has also trimmed the price with its RRP listed at AU$709. All things considered, this is an absolute bargain for one of this year’s best smartphones. I think you should go for Nokia E71 if you are thinking of buying a mobile.

Remember the good old days when phones were chunky, and batteries lasted for weeks? Nokia does, and it wants to bring your once super-nimble texting fingers out of departure. The Nokia C5 channels the mobile phones of old, with a few modern niceties bolted on.
It’s available for free on a £10-per-month, 24-month contract with T-Mobile, or you can pick it up for around £150 SIM-free.

Skinny and tall

At 12mm thick, the Symbian-based Nokia C5 features an tremendously slim build, which makes it easy to slip into a pocket. Look at this phone side on and it’s liable to slip into the sub-atomic realm and become invisible to human eyes. At 112mm tall, it’s also an enormously long handset, which is a very, very good thing. “Why?” we hear you ask.
The Nokia C5‘s build quality is especially remarkable for a device at this price. The phone has a pleasing weight, doesn’t feel cheap or plastic, and has a smooth, rounded finish. It feels like a cohesive piece of technology, rather than a heap of components hurriedly glued together.

The Nokia C5‘s display has a 320×240-pixel resolution, and is clear and bright. Text is sharp and easy to read, and images render very well indeed.

Interface

As well as looking the business, the Nokia C5 also boasts a very natty user interface. It’ll be accustomed to anyone who’s used a Nokia device over the last few years. You’ll find a few key applications along the bottom of the home screen, with a more detailed menu accessible via a quick tap of the left button.

We love the speed at which the interface moves. We didn’t notice much delay at all when clicking our way around the various menus, and the Nokia C5 is an extremely snappy device overall. Our only protest about the interface is that there are quite a few pop-ups and warnings that get in the way of navigation, particularly when you’re using Web-connected apps — you’ll have to register your approval of splash screens even if they’re just informing you that you’re now communicating over a secure connection. Such pop-ups may prove useful to some people, but they do detract from the user experience slightly.

Conclusion

As we can use the Nokia C5 in multiple purpose so think it is a good idea to invest money here.

The Nokia X3 is a slim, budget offering from the Finns. With no touchscreen and modest memory, it still has pretenses of being a gorgeous music device with a low cost to boot.

While the recent Nokia X6 touchscreen topped the rebranded X-series music phone bill with smartphone functionality and the heavyweight 32GB of onboard memory, the Nokia X3 is a much more uncertain affair.

It works the signature Nokia Xpress Music design look again; sporting bright red or blue music player controls down the side of the exhibition, and comes with a 2GB MicroSD memory card in-box, a standard 3.5mm headphone socket, in-ear earphones and an FM radio.

Initially available for around £90 with various pay as you go deals (or £129 SIM-free), the Nokia X3 is clearly pointing for the cash-conscious music phone buyer after a smart-looking device, pitching it squarely against the likes of the Sony Ericsson W395.
Design and handling

The Nokia X3‘s bodywork is tidily proportioned, measuring 96(h) x 49.3(w) x 14.1(d) mm closed and weighing 103g.
It has an average-sized 2.2-inch 262K-colour QVGA display dominating the front that’s reasonable for this sort of mobile set.
There are no touchscreen controls – under the display is a regular navigation D-pad flanked by a typical issue quartet of soft key and call end buttons on a flat glossy black front control panel.

These three thin music control buttons (forward, rewind, play/pause) enable users to operate the music player when it’s playing in the background, although they’re aren’t essential for controlling the phone – the triangulation D-pad can take care of that too.
The slide-out keyboard is a bit of a throwback to Motorola RAZR styling, with a flat brushed metal pad separated by well-lit ridges. It’s sufficient for texting at decent speeds, though it doesn’t have the super-light touch of the best texting phones, and larger-fingered users should be wary of straying thumbs.

The standard 3.5mm headphone socket sits correctly on top of the phone, next to a microUSB data connector and thin-pin charger socket. All-in-all, it feels slim in the hand and pocket, and is comfortable to handle – what more do you really expect from a £90 mobile set? LG is doing the same thing with the LG Pop – so we’re glad to see Nokia is playing in the right area as well.

Introduction

Dubbed the company’s most compact smartphone to date in terms of cubic inches overall, the Nokia 700 is indeed a neatly packed tiny handset running the new Symbian Belle.

The phone has a pretty good laundry list of specs for its price point, and should appeal nicely to those who like their phones in small sizes with a variety of colors to choose from. Is this enough to battle formidable opposing hobbits like the Sony Ericsson Xperia ray? Read on to find out…

In the box:

• In-ear headphones
• Wall charger
• microUSB cable
• Warranty and information leaflets

Design

We mentioned the Xperia ray in the intro, since that’s exactly the phone that the Nokia 700 reminded us of when we grabbed it at first. The 700 is slightly thicker, but shorter and less wide, thus indeed stuffing the least cubic inches of all smartphones, although the difference is minimal. As you can imagine, it is very easy to handle and operate with one hand, and even gets lost in your palm if you have larger hands.

The 3.2” ClearBlack AMOLED display boasts nice, saturated colors, great contrast and viewing angles, and good pixel density at 220ppi, courtesy of the typical for Symbian 360×640 resolution. To top it off, the screen is pretty bright, ensuring above average visibility outside, which we don’t see often with Super AMOLED displays, for instance.

The Nokia 700 has a metallic battery cover, which comes in different colors, always matching the variety of colors the phone chassis is offered in. The chrome-like lock button, volume rocker and camera key on the right also add some pizzazz, but are too smallish and flush with the surface to be found comfortably, and their travel is pretty shallow, especially the lock key. Below the Gorilla Glass screen protection in the front we also have three physical buttons – call, end and menu – positioned on a plastic bar. They have a good travel and click to them, but again come smallish for larger digits. The loudspeaker grill is frontal and recessed, making the phone look like a slider.

Conclusion

Nokia 700 is not only attractive to look at but also full of helpful for many business solutions. You can suggest anyone to buy the mobile set if the looking for.

Until a few years ago, touchscreen phones were generally attached with higher price tags. Today it’s a completely different story and touch enabled handsets are no longer the arm candy of just the elite. With manufactures like Samsung come out with their affordable yet efficient touchscreen phones the Corby series to be specific, there seems to be a touch phone for everyone. Well, Nokia too ventured the low-price touchscreen phone space with the new Nokia 5233 devices.

One of these attractive phones, the Nokia 5233 is what we have recently reviewed. The mentioned phone is claimed to be the cheapest Nokia touchscreen handset and a run through the feature list or citing similarities with the 5230 or any other Nokia touchscreen phone didn’t really excite us. So we have just scanned through the phone independently. The bundle simply included the 5233 phone is black color along with a power adapter, earphones, a fancy plectrum stylus, a 10 track Nokia Music Store voucher and the User Guide.

We were pretty livid with the absence a USB cord and a memory card. Nevertheless highlights among the feature list were the 3.2” touchscreen display with a resolution of 640 x 360 pixels, 16:9 widescreen with landscape navigation, 3.5mm AV jack, 2-megapixel camera, access to Ovi store and customizable home screen. There is Bluetooth backing too though Nokia didn’t fancy putting in WiFi in this phone. A media key next to the Nokia logo on the right top corner of the screen offers a shortcut to multimedia application. The screen is large and bright making it great for watching videos. Besides, it is also easy to set up the home screen while the touchscreen responds very well with the stylus. Internet connectivity was quick and virtually lag free.

The audio quality offered by the phone is definitely above average and should keep music buffs entertained. The Nokia 5233 will certainly fit the bill for dedicated Nokia fans on the look for a touch phone tagged at a lower price. It should also appeal mobile users who are new to the touchscreen genre with its simple interface. If you don’t give much of a thought to the way your phone feels and are just worried about its performance, the Nokia 5233 won’t be a bad investment at all.

Introduction

Nokia had two big announcements to make a few months ago. And yes, it’s a matter of perspective but, on certain markets, the S40-powered Asha series can be as big as Windows Phone. However, now that the Lumia smartphones have had their deserved hype, it’s time for the Asha handsets to step forward.

The S40 platform got recently treated to lots of visual updates and the latest feature phone sets have joined the 1GHz league. The new Asha 303 seem to be sparing no effort to bring the complete user experience to traditionally loyal Nokia markets.

Key features

• Quad-band GSM/GPRS/EDGE support
• Penta-band 3G with 10Mbps HSDPA and 2Mbps HSUPA
• Asha S40 Touch and Type platform
• Four-row hardware QWERTY keyborad
• 2.6″ QVGA 256K-color capacitive TFT touchscreen
• 1GHz processor
• 128MB RAM, 256MB ROM
• 3 megapixel fixed-focus camera
• VGA video recording at 15fps
• Wi-Fi b/g/n
• Stereo FM radio with RDS
• Bluetooth v2.1 (with A2DP)
• Standard microUSB port (charging enabled)
• USB On-The-Go support
• microSD card slot (32 GB supported, 2GB included)
• 3.5mm audio jack
• Angry Birds is Asha 300/303 exclusive
Main disadvantages
• No multitasking
• Fixed-focus camera
• No smart dialing
• No video-call camera
• No document viewer
• Non-hot-swappable memory card

The Nokia Asha 303 is in charge of a lineup that tries to cover the entire range of the low end. From a basic Dual SIM solution to different combinations of touchscreen and QWERTY and cameras ranging from 2 to 5 megapixel and there should be a phone for every use and budget.

Nokia Asha 303 live pictures

Save for the 3.2 megapixel camera (it’s fixed-focus across the range), the Asha 303 is the best equipped handset of the lineup. Not only is it the first QWERTY/touchscreen S40 phone, the capacitive display is a debut for the platform. The penta-band 3G support along with Wi-Fi and USB-on-the-go are earnest of a smartphone.

The Nokia Asha 303 is not a smartphone of course and the biggest omission is multitasking. Nokia’s S40 have never had that and it seems a shame that the 1GHz processor will never be really tested. Smart dialing is another No on the list – would’ve been a nice thing to have on a QWERTY phone.

Conclusion

Nokia Asha 303 is a mobile set by which you can enjoy unlimited facilities. So if you are thinking about buying a mobile set, don’t forget to have a look in this set.

Introduction

Nokia had two big announcements to make a few months ago. And yes, it’s a matter of perspective but, on certain markets, the S40-powered Asha series can be as big as Windows Phone. However, now that the Lumia smartphones have had their deserved hype, it’s time for the Asha handsets to step forward.

The S40 platform got recently treated to lots of visual updates and the latest feature phone sets have joined the 1GHz league. The new Asha 303 seem to be sparing no effort to bring the complete user experience to traditionally loyal Nokia markets.

Key features

• Quad-band GSM/GPRS/EDGE support
• Penta-band 3G with 10Mbps HSDPA and 2Mbps HSUPA
• Asha S40 Touch and Type platform
• Four-row hardware QWERTY keyborad
• 2.6″ QVGA 256K-color capacitive TFT touchscreen
• 1GHz processor
• 128MB RAM, 256MB ROM
• 3 megapixel fixed-focus camera
• VGA video recording at 15fps
• Wi-Fi b/g/n
• Stereo FM radio with RDS
• Bluetooth v2.1 (with A2DP)
• Standard microUSB port (charging enabled)
• USB On-The-Go support
• microSD card slot (32 GB supported, 2GB included)
• 3.5mm audio jack
• Angry Birds is Asha 300/303 exclusive

Main disadvantages

• No multitasking
• Fixed-focus camera
• No smart dialing
• No video-call camera
• No document viewer
• Non-hot-swappable memory card

The Asha 303 is in charge of a lineup that tries to cover the entire range of the low end. From a basic Dual SIM solution to different combinations of touchscreen and QWERTY and cameras ranging from 2 to 5 megapixel and there should be a phone for every use and budget.

Nokia Asha 303 live pictures

Save for the 3.2 megapixel camera (it’s fixed-focus across the range), the Nokia Asha 303 is the best equipped handset of the lineup. Not only is it the first QWERTY/touchscreen S40 phone, the capacitive display is a debut for the platform. The penta-band 3G support along with Wi-Fi and USB-on-the-go are earnest of a smartphone.

The Nokia Asha 303 is not a smartphone of course and the biggest omission is multitasking. Nokia’s S40 have never had that and it seems a shame that the 1GHz processor will never be really tested. Smart dialing is another No on the list – would’ve been a nice thing to have on a QWERTY phone.

Conclusion

Nokia Asha 303 is a mobile set by which you can enjoy unlimited facilities. So if you are thinking about buying a mobile set, don’t forget to have a look in this set.