Key features
QWERTY messenger bar
Quad-band GSM/EDGE
802.11b/g Wi-Fi support
Solid SNS integration on the homescreen and with dedicated buttons
2.4" 256K-color QVGA display with excellent sunlight legibility
2 megapixel fixed-focus camera
QVGA video recording at 15fps
Series 40 UI, 6th edition
Stereo FM radio with RDS, Visual radio
Bluetooth (with A2DP)
Standard microUSB port
microSD card slot (8GB supported, 2GB included)
3.5mm audio jack
Great audio quality
Reasonable price
Main disadvantages
Not symbian but looks similar to symbian
No 3G
Low-grade camera, no autofocus, no flash
Poor video recording
S40 is outdated, never mind the visual updates
No multi-tasking
Doesn't charge off the microUSB port
No USB cable in the retail box
No office document viewer
No smart dialing
No multitasking facility
S40 user interface is looking fancy
The C3 runs Nokia’s Series 40 user interface but it’s been styled to look a lot like Symbian S60 3rd. The dedicated Contacts and Messages buttons nod to the Eseries. Overall, the Nokia C3 UI tries to look above its pay grade.
Not that much has changed – at its core it’s still the limited S40 software so don’t expect any surprising novelties in the UI section.
The S40 strengths are still valid – simple and easy when it comes to the essential functions, no hanging, no bugs. Simple is not always bad.
Camera Not up to the mark
The Nokia C3 packs a 2MP fixed focus-camera, which snaps photos at 1600x1200 pixels and quite expectedly, results aren’t particularly impressive.
Typical Series 40, the camera settings are rather limited but reasonable given the phone’s price range. The available settings include white balance, resolution, various effects and a self timer.
Image quality is quite poor even by 2MP camera standards. Photos are often very noisy, the noise reduction algorithm can smear away whole areas and the color balance often misses the mark. Overall, we wouldn’t recommend using the C3 camera for much more than contact photos
The Nokia C3 is rather unimpressive in video capture too – it manages QVGA@20fps, which isn’t any good by anyone’s standards. We guess that sort of video is only good for an occasional MMS.
Camera Not up to the mark
The Nokia C3 packs a 2MP fixed focus-camera, which snaps photos at 1600x1200 pixels and quite expectedly, results aren’t particularly impressive.
Typical Series 40, the camera settings are rather limited but reasonable given the phone’s price range. The available settings include white balance, resolution, various effects and a self timer.
Image quality is quite poor even by 2MP camera standards. Photos are often very noisy, the noise reduction algorithm can smear away whole areas and the color balance often misses the mark. Overall, we wouldn’t recommend using the C3 camera for much more than contact photos
The Nokia C3 is rather unimpressive in video capture too – it manages QVGA@20fps, which isn’t any good by anyone’s standards. We guess that sort of video is only good for an occasional MMS.
The major drawback of Series 40 is the lack of multitasking – and we’ll never see it implemented. But a lot of the features help work around this problem – like the new Communities app, which pulls updates in the background and Ovi Chat, which is a native app now and loads much faster than J2ME alternatives.
Both apps let you stay online and receive updates even when the app is not active which, as far as messaging is concerned, sorts out the lack of multitasking. And it’s not like there are a lot of third-party apps you’d install on an S40 phone.
The upshot of this is that the battery lasts longer and there are no unexpected hang-ups when background-running apps start acting up.
Source: Classic mobiles Ktr and http://www.gsmarena.com/nokia_c3-review-494.php
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