As new line of handsets being released by other big mobile phone manufacturer, world known handset manufacturer Nokia also intruduced a new handset into the market.  The Nokia C5-03 from C-Series family was released just before the launch of their big product Nokia N8 handset. Nokia C5-03 is basically a 3G capable touchscreen mobile phone a very stylish looks and comes in a number of vibrant & variant colors. The C5-03 features a neat 3.2 inch TFT resistive touchscreen which features a resolution of 360 x 640 pixels with on board QWERTY keyboard and stylus support.

The operating system on the Nokia C5-03 is Symbian^1 S60 5th edition touch edition, which is somewhat depressing. But this handset features other essentials like Wi-Fi for faster internet access, compass, Bluetooth 2.0, A-GPS for free live navigation on Ovi Maps, Ovi Store and also features sharing through social networks.

The new Nokia C5-03 sports an impressive 5 megapixel camera, with 4X digital zoom features which can take excellent pictures and videos. But, there is no flash to accompany it. A very nifty feature that’s available though is Geo-tagging. Apart from images, video recording is supported at a resolution of 640×480 at 15fps and save them in H.263 or MPEG-4 formats. Storage wise, the Nokia C5-03 is impressive for a phone with mid-range features. C5-03 only has a 40MB of internal user memory, so there is a microSD card slot for external memory that is expandable up to 16 GB.

Nokia C5-03 operates on connectivities with support for quad-band GSM/GPRS/EDGE, tri-band 3G with HSDPA (10.2Mbps) and HSUPA (2Mbps). The battery of Nokia C5-03 is impressive, with a 1000 mAh battery to a phone that has limited battery consumption, the result is an extremely long standby time of up to 24-25 days. And a talk time of 11.5 hours on 2G networks and 5 hours on 3G networks.

So, what is it about this new phone that makes it worth buying? With all the modern-day essentials features on this handsets, it definitely might be just the cheapest smartphone out there.

Available  in the market for US$230 in variant colors like Graphite Black, Lime Green, Petrol Blue and Aluminum Grey.

KEY FEATURES:

* Quad band GSM 850/900/1800/1900, 3G HSDPA/HSUPA
* 3.2-inch touchscreen display
* Wireless LAN Wi-Fi
* Size: 105.8 x 51 x 13.8 mm 93 g
* Alert Types – Vibration; Downloadable polyphonic, MP3 ringtones
* Symbian^1 OS (S60 5th edition touch-edition)
* 3G connectivity : Tri band 3G with HSDPA (10.2Mbps) and HSUPA (2Mbps)
* Digital compass
* GPS with assisted GPS
* Free Ovi Maps hands-free navigation service
* Important Contacts on homescreen for quick call
* 5 megapixel camera with 4X digital zoom (without flash)
* Automatic location tagging (Geotagging) of images and videos
* Expandable Memory with MicroSD cards up to 16GB
* Talktime : Up to 11.5 hours for GSM use and 4.5 hours using 3G.
* Standby time : Up to 25 days
* Video sharing and playback -MPEG-4, 3GPP: H.263 and H.264 codecs
* Music codecs: .mp3, AAC, eAAC, eAAC+ and WMA
* Email : webmail or POP3 using Nokia messaging , Mail for Exchange,Ovi Mail
* Stereo FM radio
* Ovi Music
* Ovi Store

It’s got a pretty impressive set of specs.

3.5 inches (360×640 pixels, 16 million colors) touchscreen display
32GB internal memory
up to 16GB on microSD
Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g
HSDPA 3.6Mbps
proximity sensor
accelerometer sensor
full qwerty keyboard
handwriting recognition
5 MP (2584×1938 pixels) Carl Zeiss optics, autofocus, video (30fps)
2nd front facing camera for videocalls/LED Flash
GPS receiver with A-GPS support
Stereo FM radio with RDS
TV Out
3.5 mm audio output jack

The Nokia N97 won’t be shipping until the middle of 2009.
We’ll be waiting!