The Nokia C5 super slim Symbian S60 phone has just been announced by Nokia. Those spyshots we saw last month were bang on cue: it’s a teeny candybar phone with a svelte shell, but much more power than any Series 40 phones from Espoo, and a serious social networking twist.
While the design of the Nokia C5, the first phone in Nokia’s long awaited Cseries, is fairly conventional, with a T9 keypad, 2.2-inch screen and 12x46x112mm footprint, the fact it runs Symbian S60 3rd edition is an eye opener: this little mobile can cope with all the apps of much chunkier and expensive E and Nseries smartphones.
Although we don’t know about connectivity for the Nokia C5 (It’s still unclear if Wi-Fi is onboard), it will run the new Ovi Maps with free navigation out of the box, so it is has GPS, and on the media front, there’s a microSD slot, 3.5mm audio port for your own headphones and an FM radio.
Nokia is also touting the social networking skills of the Nokia C5, with Facebook statuses of your mates now appearing by their name in the phone book.
Not a bad package, eh? Here’s where things get really exciting: the Nokia C5 will cost just €135 (£122) SIM-free when it lands in Europe between April and June. That’s a remarkable price and one that could give the INQ Mini 3G and even Nokia’s own 6700 Classic a fright.
Check out the Nokia C5 pictures here and we’ll be back with details on networks and exact launch dates when we get them. That Nokia C6 QWERTY phone can’t be far off now, either.
Out Q2 | €135 | Nokia (Via Nokia Conversations)
