Low-budget Nokia phones accept consistently provided users with bigger constancy and functionality as compared to the added brands. The 3120, 1110 models were an complete acerbity if they were launched about a decade back. In contempo times as well, if it comes to bigger operating activity times, Nokia phones accept added or beneath consistently delivered. Recently, Nokia has launched the new C2-03 blow and blazon handset. But, is this handset a acceptable buy for those absent a low-budget bifold SIM blow phone? Read on to acquisition
Design and Build Quality
The C2-03 that we advised had a atramentous and argent exoteric and it does attending appealing nice. However it’s a bit on the bulkier side, which is due to the buzz accumulation a slider as able-bodied as getting a touchscreen. The buzz is fabricated up of complete artificial but it doesn’t feel like a lot of the bargain ones currently in the market. Nokia hasn’t gone adorned with this architecture and the buzz looks absolutely inconspicuous. For the adventurous, it comes in an another gold and white design. The basal has chrome plating over the artificial which adds to the looks.
Being a slider as able-bodied as a blow phone, one would wish the buzz to be athletic and the C2-03 doesn’t disappoint. The slider has a acceptable breeze on and feel to it and the buttons on the top accept a acceptable acknowledgment as well. The keypad, on the contrary, has almost any bash amid two keys and accounting on it isn’t too comfortable. The top of the handset consists of the charging port, micro USB and the 3.5mm headphone jack. The appropriate consists of a aggregate rocker and the lock button and additional SIM agenda can be housed on the larboard of the phone. The microSD agenda aperture and SIM 1 aperture are housed beneath the array so there’s no advantage of hot-swap with anamnesis cards. Overall, the buzz has a close and athletic feel to it, but it’s absolutely on the bulkier side.
The phone isn't thin by any means
Interface
The buzz has a 2.6-inch TFT arresting touchscreen but it’s got a appealing acceptable feedback, clashing a lot of of the arresting touchscreens in the market. It runs the Nokia Series 40 software and the aboriginal consequence is that the interface is absolutely active and doesn’t absolutely lag.
The home screen
The home awning wasn’t absolutely absorbing searching or accurate and is a mish-mash of baby icons that cover the clock, SIM manager, the agenda and a adjustment bar for the Ovi store, camera, maps and keypad. The widgets can be user-defined as well, but the home awning seems to accept a accomplished amount of icons, something evocative of the home awning of beforehand Windows Mobile 5 and 6 versions. There are bash gestures accessible for the user and annexation to the appropriate on the homescreen brings up the amateur and app class and a larboard bash gets you to the camera, which can be afflicted according to your preference.
Overall aeronautics amid apps and airheaded is smooth, but scrolling through song lists on the music amateur is a little cumbersome. More generally than not, we concluded up beat the song rather than scrolling through the absolute account and the awning did accept a little odd blow at times. One accurate affair to agenda is that while arena music in the background, there’s no adjustment key that allows you to get aback to the music player.
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Media
The buzz supports MP4, H.264 and H.263 formats, but we had adversity arena .MP4 files. 3GP files played altogether well, but the awning isn’t absolutely acceptable for even boilerplate 1-2 hours of video playback. So, befitting this accessory for primary video playback wouldn’t absolutely be advisable. As far as audio is concerned, the superior is absolutely acceptable through both the headphones as able-bodied as the loudspeaker. The music playback is loud and bright but don’t apprehend the amazing out here. FM radio is present as well, and it comes with a recording option, which ability appear in accessible for few people.
We’d accept admired a few added options like afresh added and a lot of played in the music amateur and a little beneath time to amend the playlists from the time you put in your anamnesis card.
 Gallery Connectivity The big affliction is that there is no Wi-Fi on this phone. The alone abstracts connectivity options are GPRS and EDGE. With the accessible connectivity options, the banal browser downscales the sites and renders them appealing quickly. Nokia has aswell included babble options through communities that abutment Google Talk, Ovi Chat, Windows Live Messenger and Yahoo! Chat. There’s Bluetooth 2.1 with A2DP and microUSB 2.0 as allotment of connectivity options. Misc. Features Nokia has arranged in a few apps and amateur that cover communities, converter, golf tour, maps, music guess, attributes park, account addle and solitaire. More apps can be downloaded via the Ovi abundance as well. Basic options like anxiety clock, calculator, articulation recorder, agitation list, notes, timer and alarm are included as well. There’s annihilation out of the accustomed out actuality at least.  The music player doesn't have much to offer in terms of interface |
The camera abiding with the buzz is a 2 megapixel one. It’s absolutely accustomed and there’s no beam advantage either. Low-light snaps are absolutely abhorrent and this absolutely can’t be your aboriginal cutting accessory option. Viewing the clicked images on the buzz isn’t any problem, but if you get the images on to a bigger screen, for example, on your computer, you apperceive that the angel superior isn’t too great. The buzz supports QCIF video recording at 15fps, afresh which is ordinary, at best. The settings for the still and video camera can be abiding based on what you use a lot of and it does advice in a added alone customization.
 An image shot from the camera |
The buzz comes with a 1020 mAh Lithium-ion array and we ran it through our array bend test. The buzz gave us 3 hours of allocution time, 3 hours of video playback and 2 hours 20 account of audio playback. Array activity is absolutely acceptable and it gave about 1 hour of music playback even on low battery. Another absorbing affair to acknowledgment is that artlessly charging the buzz for 5 account gives about two hours of usage, which ability appear in accessible for some people.
 The Nokia C2-03 - could have been a little thinner |
Verdict
The Nokia C2-03 blow and blazon slider buzz is currently priced at Rs. 4,500. The a lot of important aspects for phones in this class are messaging, camera and music. The keypad and camera are sub-par but the buzz doesn’t abort as far as music is concerned. For alternatives, the Micromax Van Gogh can be a cheaper option. For those not absent to abatement the blow experience, the Nokia X3-02 (which is a little added expensive) will action abundant added as well. As for the C2-03, we’d accept adopted a thinner adaptation with bigger camera and bigger keypad to be able to acclaim it.
