The Nokia C5-03 is another in its C5 series of budget phones, but those sneaky Finns have added a dash of quality by sticking a touchscreen, Wi-Fi and 3G on it.
Unfortunately, the 3.2-inch touchscreen of the C5-03 is the clunky resistive kind, which you might be familiar with from old devices such as the Nokia 5800. Newer, pricier Symbian handsets such as the X6 generally sport capacitive touchscreens it seems Nokia weren't able to shoehorn one in for the £150 price the C5-03 should be selling for.
You also have a decent 5-megapixel camera with 4x digital zoom, but no flash. It will also come with a compass and assisted GPS, with free Ovi Maps. There's just 40MB of memory, but it supports microSD cards up to 16GB.
Nokia used to have this budget end of the smart phone market sewn up. It keeps churning out the handsets, with the Touch and Type X3 and C3 also expected this year, but things have changed dramatically in the last few months. When it comes to phones priced around the £100 to £150 mark, there are now plenty of options if you don't want to stick with a Nokia Symbian phone.
The Orange Android 2.1 phone has a capacitive touchscreen phone, and at £99 costs £50 less than the C5-03. Android has the benefit of a huge number of apps and is generally more user-friendly than Symbian, which is really looking its age.
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