Nokia may be struggling to re-establish itself in the smartphone activity with handsets suchlike the N8, but the friendship soothe knows its onions when it comes to creating sagittiform and straight phones for the collection market, which is evidently the direct for the C3 Impinging and Typewrite.
At prototypic recoil, the C3 Soupcon and Write, or C3-01 as it’s also famous, looks very correspondent to the likes of the Nokia 6300 and 6700 Classic, thanks to its tralatitious layout, with a casebook keypad at the bottommost and a portrayal obstruct at the top. Same those models, it also has a brushed alloy decorativeness with true element utilized on the bombardment crusty spell the sleep of the telephone is impressible with a bimetallic space job. Nonetheless, the phone feels unco plain to view and looks quite classy.
The keypad is actual ample by Nokia standards and the buttons feel acknowledging and accord a apparent bang back pressed, so concrete acknowledgment is absolutely good. At the top of the key pad, there are two alarm ascendancy buttons, but clashing best Nokia’s, there’s no axial card button. There’s a acceptable acumen for this and that’s because the ‘Touch’ in the name refers to the actuality that this buzz uses a touchscreen – but added on that later. The left-hand ancillary of the buzz is absolutely chargeless of buttons, admitting the appropriate ancillary houses the aggregate rocker switch, lock button and a committed camera key.
As with abounding of today’s mid-range Nokias, the handset has both a micro-USB anchorage and a mini Nokia charging port. The buzz can absolutely be answerable application either, but the mini charging anchorage accuse the buzz faster and so Nokia food this blazon of charger in the box. Nestled amid these two ports is a accepted headphone jack and Nokia food a brace of ear bud headphones (including an inline mic) with the phone. The rear array awning slides off to accord you admission to the SIM agenda aperture and microSD agenda slot. The after accepts cards of up to 32GB in admeasurement giving you affluence of allowance to abundance photos, videos and music tracks.
At 2.4in, the touchscreen isn’t ample by smartphone standards, but it’s acceptable for a acceptable candybar shaped phone. It has a resolution of 240 x 320 pixels, which agency that it can affectation absolutely a lot of argument on a distinct screen. The affectation uses arresting rather than capacitive blow technology, but it absolutely feels acknowledging back selecting best items in the menus, although the actuality that Nokia has fabricated all the selectable icons and options absolutely ample helps in this regard.
When you accept to annal through best lists it doesn’t assignment absolutely as able-bodied as you accept to carefully columnist a bit harder on the affectation rather than aloof dingo the ablaze abrade activity that you tend to do if you’re acclimated to capacitive screens. One accessory acrimony is that acute on the awning causes ripples to arise beneath your feel and hardly distorts the colours about that area. You get acclimated to it, but it is a bit annoying at aboriginal and makes you admiration how able-bodied the affectation will be over the best term.
Phone works on the Series 40 operating system instead of the more developed the Series 60 version found on most Nokia phones smarter. Series 40 user interface has apparently been modified to make it more touch-friendly, larger icons are not only from the main menu, but also to scroll through the submenu. The result is a phone that is much faster than the older models without moving a touch screen so you no longer need to fiddle with the d-pad to select the desired item – Just reach out and touch it. Another sector that has significantly improved the touch screen is the navigation on the web. While the Nokia web browser is rather slow and heavy to use, you can upload a maximum of Opera Mini, by contrast, is a revelation. This is a very fast downloads of pages and navigation Zoom (faucet because there is no multi-touch) touch screen is a pleasure, so this is one of the best traditional model of the laptop we have ever encountered a Web use .
Verdict
The C3-01 Touch and Type is a attractive handset that will address to those who appetite accessible to use appearance and diffuse array activity in a commonly styled candybar phone. However, with Android handsets starting to hit the £100 mark on Pay as you Go, it’s difficult to acclaim it to added adventuresome souls.
