Overview

Nokia C3 - Affordable and Handy QWERTY Phone

Overview of Nokia C3

Nokia C3 is a QWERTY bar featured phone announced in 2010. It runs on S40 operating system. It has dimensions 115.5 mm height, 58 mm width, 13.6 mm thickness and weighs 114 g. It's Volume is 63.2 cm3. Its QWERTY keyboard resembles with earlier Nokia 6800 series models. This model possesses a camera of 2 MP with photo resolution 1600x1200 pixels and video recording option is also available with resolution of 320x240 pixels. Phone has 2.4 inch QVGA screen and supported with 55MB internal memory which can be extended up to 8GB using micro SD. The Nokia C3 is powered via its BL-5J 1320mAh Li-Ion battery which has maximum 7hrs talk time and 800 hrs. standby time and has music playback time maximum 30hrs at offline mode.

User Interface and comfort to use Nokia C3

Nokia C3 users can set up email and chat accounts from device itself because phone has installed with Ovi Chat and Ovi mail. You can access Facebook and twitter directly from home as it is features push mail and SNS.

Messaging and Emails

Nokia C3 offers keypad style messaging experience. This is inconvenient for typing messages. Phone supports SMS, MMS+SMIL, AMS, IM, Nokia Messaging, Nokia Mail etc. One splendid feature of this phone is text-to-speech message reader.

Gallery, Photo Viewer and Video quality

You are able to play back video in MPEG-4, QCIF maximum resolution of 320x240, video file format is H.263, H.264, AVI, MPEG-4.

Music Player and FM Radio of Nokia C3

Phone has loud speaker of clear sound quality. Music will play nicely on the device and you can organize your play list into album, artist and genre options. FM radio is equipped with stereo feature.

Phonebook of Nokia C3

The phone book memory is designed to store 1000 number of contacts.

Camera and Image Quality

Phone supported with 2MP camera having photo resolution of 1600x1200 pixels. Camera is equipped with features like 4x digital zoom, sequence mode, full viewfinder, self-timer and full focus minimum focus range is 50cm. It lacks LED flash means camera will not work in dark.

Connectivity Options

Nokia C3 equipped with Wi-Fi security modes WPA, WEP, Micro USB, Nokia micro USB, Bluetooth 2.1 +EDR, Multimedia Transfer Protocol, WLAN support 802.11b/g. It supports for Opera mini browser and Nokia browser. Social networking apps preinstalled in handset lets you access your contacts.

Distinctive Features of Nokia C3

Nokia C3 performs much better that a media and internet device. Call quality is good even in loud environment. Battery life is good as it packs 1320mAh battery. It also gets 1-click access to various social networking sites, including image uploads, via Nokia's communities app.

Value for Money

Nokia C3 is available at a price of INR 5199 (approx., may vary).

Verdict

Nokia C3 is a mid-range phone with QWERTY keypad. The phone has a lot of useful features to satisfy the needs of the target customers. The phone runs on Symbian Series 40 OS, which is commonly found in many Nokia smartphones.