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Nokia C5: $185 will get you 3.2 megapixels, GPS, HSPA, and Symbian [UPDATE: Video!]

Categories: Nokia, Symbian
By: , IntoMobile
Tuesday, March 2nd, 2010 at 12:42 AM

Like clockwork, Nokia announced the C5 today. It says a lot that the company used their press bulletin site, and not their official press site, to make the announcement. When that usually happens, the device is seen as something not too important to the company’s portfolio. Maybe there are more Cseries devices lined up, more impressive ones, that are yet to be announced? Here’s what we do know about the C5: 12.3 x 46 x 112 mm stainless steel body, 89.3 gram weight, 2.2 inch 320 x 240 pixel screen, 3.2 megapixel camera, 3.5 mm headphone jack, GPS, 1050 mAh battery, quadband GSM/EDGE, dualband (900/2100 Mhz) HSPA, Symbian S60 3rd Edition.

All that for 135 EUR before taxes and subsidies, or roughly $185, and due to hit the market in Q2 of this year. The little boy in me would say “gee wiz, those specfications at that price is awesome!” But the cynical blogger in me is going “Nokia makes smartphone cheap, yay, I’m so excited. No really, I am. Now where’s the iPhone killa?”

Think of the C5 as something you’d buy for your mom, or something for your girlfriend. It can be their segue into smartphones. For emerging economies this is going to be someone’s first smartphone, and also the first device they’ll use to connect to the internet. Had those new internet users been reading IntoMobile, they would have known what the C5 looked like a month ago.

Update: Quick hands on video of the Nokia C5 courtesy of Symbian World:

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Stefan Constantinescu

Stefan Constantinescu (@WhatTheBit on Twitter) has loved technology since as far back as he can remember. It started with computers, but in the past few years his passion has turned to mobile devices. As a mobile phone enthusiast who lives and breathes devices that connect to the internet, he knows he is not alone with this radical fascination of all things wireless. He is strongly opinionated and enjoys a good debate so leave comments in his posts and he’ll get back to you! Stefan began blogging as a hobby in the fall of 2006 and joined IntoMobile in the summer of 2007. Later he got a job at Nokia in March 2008, but as of June 2009 he has rejoined the IntoMobile team. He is currently based out of Helsinki, Finland.

  • Oposum

    mh too bad they didnt announce more devices.
    There was only one C5 at their tiny cebit “booth”. I asked for more Cseries devices yesterday, and a nokia guy answered something like: “you mean like C7? hm no no, only the C5″.

  • Stefan Constantinescu

    That sucks, did you take any pictures of the C5? I’d love to see some live photos!

  • Mairi

    Something for your girlfriend? Gentlemen – please do not buy a phone like this for your girlfriend. If you have a girlfriend who’s in to phones enough to be pleased to get one as a present from her boyfriend, then she’s in to phone’s enough not to want this one ;)