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Nokia C7, world’s second Symbian^3 device, starts shipping to customers

Categories: Nokia, Symbian
By: , IntoMobile
Monday, October 11th, 2010 at 1:02 AM

The Nokia C7 is now shipping to customers according to an official press release. This comes less than 2 weeks after the news that the N8 started to ship, meeting the planned deadline of “Q3 2010″ by the narrowest of margins. Unlike the N8 however, the C7 was announced less than a month ago, on September 14th, making this one of the quickest turn arounds I’ve ever seen of a Nokia device.

Specifications for those who may have forgotten: 3.5 inch screen, 640 x 360 pixel resolution, comes with 8 GB of memory inside, has an 8 megapixel camera, is “only” 10.5 mm thin (iPhone 4 is 9.4 mm), has 3G 850/900/1700/1900/2100 MHz support and 2G 850/900/1800/1900 MHz support. The 3G is capable of 10.2 Mbps down and 2.0 Mbps up. There’s also 802.11n WiFi, GPS, 3.5 mm headphone jack, and the battery is user replaceable.

Why would someone go for the C7 over the N8? Well … the camera may not be that important to a user, or they’re looking to save a few Euros, or they simply prefer the slimmer design, but this writer wonders why these two devices are priced within 60 EUR of each other and that with the exception of the camera, they really are the exact same device. We’ve got some hands-on time with the device, with video, and we walked away rather let down. It isn’t the C7′s fault, she’s a pretty device with a body made out of stainless steel; it’s Symbian^3, which we thought would be in a more advanced state than what it is right now. It used to be that we had a few writers here using Nokia devices, but now it’s all Android, iPhone and of course the BlackBerry Brothers Simon and James.

There’s always the Nokia N9, due to be announced at the first ever MeeGo conference scheduled to take place in a little over a month. Now that Peter Skillman, one of the brains behind webOS, is working on the MeeGo team, all our attention is on that operating system.

About The Author

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.

  • AT33

    What are you talking about let down from Symbian 3? Its a great OS, you’re just too stupid to use it!

    • http://www.intomobile.com Stefan Constantinescu

      Yep. I’m incompetent. I don’t even know how I manage to put my pants on every morning.

      • Vaiduoklis

        you are just an arrogant jerk. this is my oppinion only. something like you say something about symbian.

  • Jerry1ken

    Stefan, shouldn’t you give Symbian a chance.

    I can understand everyone’s obsession with all them new fancy looking OSes and all but I still find the symbian environment robust despite a few niggles here and there – there is no OS which is perfect.

    Nevertheless I think there is quite a market (out of the USA) that will find a sweet spot with C7 – 00. I was personally thinking of getting the N8 but I am gonna sit with this as I wait for Symbian 4 and or Meego.

  • peter

    May be Stefan should comment news which have no ling with Nokia/Symbian. His opinion its biased.