Nokia C3-01 Touch and Type Review

Nokia C3-01 Touch and Type is a slim design compact phone. Nokia C3-01 Touch and Type includes 5 mega pixel fixed-focus camera, bluetooth, microSD card slot (32 GB supported), Wi-Fi, GPS with a-GPS support, social network apps, Stereo FM radio with RDS and Music player. Nokia C3-01 Touch and Type comes in warm grey, golden khaki and silver color. Its price is quite reasonable so users can afford this phone. Its touch screen is very responsive. The Nokia C3-01 Touch and Type features excellent build quality, and the stainless steel casing is cool to the touch. Nokia C3-01 Touch and Type has all qualities of becoming best sellers with it reasonable price and few powerful features.

The phone boasts of great looks with sleek curved lines and solid metallic back. User feels solid while gripping phone in hand and the buttons of the keypad are quite responsive. Nokia C3-01 Touch and Type dimension measures 111 x 47.5 x 11 mm. There are two call control buttons at the top of the keypad and the volume rocker, lock and the switch buttons are located on the right side of the phone. Ambient light sensor and the earpiece are on the top of Nokia C3-01 Touch and Type display. The mouthpiece is located on the left side of the keyboard.

Advantages

• The device sports a 2.4 inches TFT resistive touch-screen display capable of displaying 256K colors of resolution measuring 240x320 pixels.
• Brightness is good but contrast is mediocre at best.
• Its Touch screen is a real treat due to its rapid response.

The Nokia C3-01 offers quad-band GSM and UMTS support. There is also HSPA support, download speed potentially reaching 10.2 Mbps, and up speed as good as 2 Mbps. Bluetooth is version 2.1 and A2DP is of course enabled. The Nokia C3-01 uses a microUSB port for both data connections and charging.

Advantages

• It has excellent connectivity for budget phone.
• Its web browsing experience is pleasant due to the presence of HSDPA and Wi-Fi.
• The phone comes with a stereo FM equipped with RDS which supports a wide range of music and video formats such as MP3, WMA, WAV, eeAAC+ etc.
• The music and the audio player of the phone give decent performance.

Disadvantages

• The phone, however, lacks flash support despite support for Adobe Flash Lite 3.0.

The phone comes with a 5 mega-pixel camera which lets user click photographs of resolution measuring 2592x1944 pixels. The camera is equipped with LED flash and the overall performance of the camera is relatively alright. However, the video recording of the phone is quiet impressive as the phone allows user to record videos @15 fps.

Advantages

• The 5-megapixel camera comes with an LED flash.
• Camera resolution is high.
• User can stored events in full action as it also has VGA video recording ability.

Disadvantages

• Nokia C3-01 has no auto-focus.
• There is over sharpening in camera and some purple fringing too.
• Secondary camera for video calling is lacking.

The music player is a real entertainment for users, it displays large album art thumbnails. There's also an FM radio. The music player of the Nokia C3-01 has decent looks and a solid set of features. User will not get frustrated because of its great functionality. It also includes album art, and a fair number of formats are supported.

Advantages

• The music player of the phone is capable of playing MP3, WMA, WAV, eAAC+ music file formats while the video player supports MP4, H.263, H.264 and WMV video formats. Java MIDP 2.1 is built-in.
• It also includes album art, and a fair number of formats are supported.
• Audio quality is good.

Disadvantages

• There is no support for GPS and multi-tasking.
• There is some notable deterioration when headphones are plugged in.

As far as memory is concerned, it sports an internal storage space of 30 MB, 64 MB RAM and 128 MB ROM. You can also expand its external memory up to 32 GB by using the microSD card slot.

Advantages

• The on-board memory of Nokia C3-01 is capable to store data up to 30 MB which is quite partial but you can expand the memory by a Micro SD memory card which supports up to 32 GB.

Keypad has a 12-key hardware keypad. There are four rows with three icons each, rather than three rows with four buttons a piece. Keys are large enough and provide decent tactile feedback so the achievable typing speed is reasonably okay.

Advantages

• The keypad is very large by Nokia standards and the buttons feel responsive and give a noticeable click when pressed, so tactile feedback is quite good.

The phone is powered by Standard battery Li-Ion 1050 mAh (BL-5CT). For your daily requirement, sure there is a rough and tough consumption of battery so Nokia C3-01's battery offers a talk time of approximately 3 hours when the phone is operated on 2G and 5 hours when operated on 3G. Standby time on 2G is around 400 hours and around 300 hours when operated on 3G. Nokia C3-01 Touch and Type plus point is its battery. Battery of this phone never disappoints the user.

Advantages

• The standard lithium Lon (1050 mAh) battery will let you enjoy up to Standby time on 2G is around 400 hours and around 300 hours when operated on 3G.
• The battery also lets user enjoy music play of up to 24 hours.

When it comes to social networking Facebook and Twitter has become a fascination for everyone. So Nokia C3-01 can supports and handle both Facebook and Twitter accounts, including several accounts of each type (though only one Facebook and one Twitter account can be connected at a time). For facebook it supports full communication capabilities and when using twitter you can update your status, check your @mentions, send direct messages and reply to tweets too. There is OVI Suite, OVI Sync and OVI Store also integrated in the handset.

Advantages

• It lets user communicate easily with the support of networks of GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900 and HSDPA 850 / 900 / 1900 / 2100.
• Nokia C3-01 Touch and Type is best in communicating with the help of Quad band phone calling, and both 3G/HSPA and WiFi internet connectivity.
• It comes equipped with Nokia messaging 3.0, the latest incarnation of Nokia's email, instant messaging and the Communities client offering Face book and Twitter access.

Nokia C3-01 Touch and Type web browser is fine. Pages can be found easily and are easy to load. There is kinetic scrolling too, which works well enough. For zooming the only option is zoom key given. It also has Adobe Flash Lite 3.0 support but Nokia C3-01 web browser doesn't support Flash.

Advantages

• Pages can be found easily and are easy to load.
• Nokia C3-01 Touch and Type has Flash Lite 3.0 support.

Disadvantages

• Nokia C3-01 web browser doesn't support Flash.

This question "Should I buy Nokia c3-01 Touch and Type" arise in every user when it comes to buy handset. If a user is searching for attractive and good looking phone with good sound quality than he must go for this phone. It is easy to use handset not confusing when it comes to use this handset but when using there are some issues like it has no smart dialing, no adequate storage out of the box, no accelerometer sensor, no document viewer. Although it has no video call camera but it has 5 mega pixel fixed-focus camera, VGA video recording.

If user is worried about his money than this phone is reasonable when user is looking for a handset at reasonable amount. The Nokia C3-01 Touch and Type is sluggish in places and fails when it tries to ape smart-phone features, but, compared to its cheap candy bar contemporaries, it cuts a fine figure. And the good thing is its connectivity which is overall positive. One more thing user will have to look that no doubt its built is neat and well built, slim, light and metal clad, 2.4" 256K-color resistive TFT QVGA touch screen but its screen is small for a touch phone. User can not do multitasking, this is also a minus point.

Bottom line s that Nokia C3-02 Touch and Type is a good looking and well built design phone but lacks in few features like no multitasking, no GPS, no smart dialing. User will have to keep these things in mind when buying Nokia C3-01 Touch and Type.