When touchscreen became affordable its popularity skyrocketed – affordable smartphones are all the rage now. The Nokia C5-03 is the result of both these trends and while it borrows a lot from the C6-01 in terms of design, its pricing is a good deal lower.

Designed for a lower price bracket than its Symbian^3 lookalike, the Nokia C5-03 has some of its specs taken down a notch

The Nokia C5-03 is a grandson of the best-selling Nokia 5800 XpressMusic and though it might be the last hurrah for Symbian^1 (or Symbian S60 as old-timers call it) it tries to deliver the same level of satisfaction on the bang for buck meter.

Full spec:
2G Network: GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900
3G Network: HSDPA 900 / 1900 / 2100
Announced : 2010, October
Status: Available. Released 2010, December
SIZE: Dimensions 105.8 x 51 x 13.8 mm, 65 cc
Weight: 93 g
DISPLAY: TFT resistive touchscreen, 16M colors
Size: 360 x 640 pixels, 3.2 inches
- Accelerometer sensor for auto-rotate
- Handwriting recognition
SOUND: Alert types Vibration; Downloadable polyphonic, MP3 ringtones
Speakerphone: Yes
- 3.5 mm audio jack
MEMORY: Phonebook Practically unlimited entries and fields, Photocall
Call records: Detailed, max 30 days
Internal: 40 MB storage, 128 MB RAM
Card slot: microSD, up to 16GB, 2GB included, buy memory
DATA: GPRS, Class 32
EDGE: Class 32
3G: HSDPA, 10.2 Mbps; HSUPA, 2 Mbps
WLAN: Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g, UPnP technology
Bluetooth: Yes, v2.0 with A2DP
USB: Yes, v2.0 microUSB
CAMERA: Primary 5 MP, 2592х1944 pixels, check quality
Features: Geo-tagging
Video: Yes, VGA@15fps
Secondary: No
OS: Symbian OS v9.4, Series 60 rel. 5
CPU: ARM 11 600 MHz processor
Messaging: SMS, MMS, Email, Instant Messaging
Browser: WAP 2.0/xHTML, HTML, RSS feeds
Radio: Stereo FM radio
Games: Yes + Java downloadable
Colors: Graphite Black, Lime Green, Petrol Blue, Aluminum Grey
GPS: Yes, with A-GPS support; Nokia Maps
Java: Yes, MIDP 2.1
- MP4/H.263/H.264/WMV player
- MP3/WAV/еAAC+/WMA player
- Photo editor
- Organizer
- Voice command/dial
- Flash Lite 3.0
- T9
BATTERY: Standard battery, Li-Ion 1000 mAh
Stand-by: Up to 600 h (2G) / Up to 576 h (3G)
Talk time: Up to 11 h 30 min (2G) / Up to 4 h 30 min (3G)
Music play: Up to 35 h

The C5-03 is a very eco-friendly gadget – 80% of the phone body is recyclable, while half of the packaging comes from recycled material (and all of it is recyclable in turn).

It’s a low-price phone with some high-speed connectivity with 10.2Mbps HSDPA and 2Mbps HSUPA. The C5-03 also packs the fastest CPU available on a Nokia S60 device – at 600MHz the old but efficient Symbian just flies.

Full Info & Review: http://www.gsmarena.com/nokia_c5_03-review-548.php

-- I have also just bought this C5-03 yesterday @ The Mines Shopping Fair - RM750 Avaxx set. So far it's performance are ok... Just the camera doesn't have AF & Flash... Using old OS S60...

This post has been edited by sanderz: Dec 31 2010, 09:22 PM

My current C5-03 picture:

LPS mega comunication there... Free 4GB memory card...

That time I buy lowest price is RM750. Now I am not sure still RM750 or not. Maybe lower already.

Hmm... For me it is better than my last time C510. Such as in the file manager section. No lagging at all. Just sometimes when rotate the screen, the respons are slow.

Just put my phone GPS to the test. It is accurate!

Portrait mode use D-Pad, Landscape mode it will auto switch to QWERTY keypad.

Ya, this phone don't have any flash... Memory size... Depends on shop lo. I buy that time the shop give me 4GB + 2GB original, so I get total 6GB.

My budget is limited... Don't have so much money lo... Before that my budget just enough for 5530XM + 8GB card...

Depends on budget lo...

Haha, my 4GB still left 2GB free...

If you have more budget. You can try Nokia C6... For C5-03 it comes with screen protector on it... Protective covers I am not sure... I just put it in a pouch when I am not using it.

C6 compare with C5-03:
-C5-03 is lighter than C6,
-C6 int. memory is larger than C5-03,
-Both are 5MP camera, C6 have AF & Flash,
-C5-03 processor are faster than C6.

This post has been edited by sanderz: Jan 3 2011, 07:56 PM

No la... But the problem that I am facing now is when opened too much tab in Opera 10, it will appears memory low message. If you ignore it it will starting to lag...

Ya. Correct made in China. Hmm... I don' know how to check free RAM leh. How? Sorry currently I don't have any camera with me...

Yeah.

Ok, my phone RAM memory left 35.6MB free after restart.

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Added on January 4, 2011, 7:47 pmAfter cleaning I get 41.45MB free.

This post has been edited by sanderz: Jan 4 2011, 07:47 PM

If closed all application... Still have 30MB+

Lol... Now my C5-03 will not responding few times... Will need to restart the phone. Any app. select already won't open, but luckily didn't hang, still able to switch off the phone.

The application select already cannot open. Home screen sometimes all blank... Need to restart.

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Added on January 7, 2011, 7:48 pmDunno whether is it installed wrong app. or what else... So far I know the Jbaktaskman isn't compatible with this phone.

This post has been edited by sanderz: Jan 7 2011, 07:48 PM

When lagging lo... 1 week...

Lol, get back to this topic lo. I not sure is it my Kaspersky security cause this problem or not.

This post has been edited by sanderz: Jan 8 2011, 06:53 PM