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Nokia seem to have the missing link in the evolution of mobile phones. The Nokia C3-01 Touch and Type is an attempt to bring the best of both worlds. A touch phone in a form factor that’s as classic as it gets.

Like it or not, touchscreen phones are the future and it would be a smart move to get ready for the switch. It’s up to you really. You can choose while there still is choice. Or you can simply wait for the inevitable.

But you know what, you can be as uncertain and old-fashioned and backward about touchscreen as you like. And still be prepared. The transition doesn’t have to be painful says Nokia with their C3-01 Touch and Type.

And as we found out reviewing the Nokia X3-02, the touchscreen/numpad combo worked impressively well on a slim metallic body. Little wonder then, Nokia are going for the same thing with the C3-01 Touch and Type.

Key features

• Quad-band GSM/GPRS/EDGE support
• Quad-band 3G with 10Mbps HSDPA and 2Mbps HSUPA
• Neat and well built, slim, light and metal clad
• 2.4″ 256K-color resistive TFT QVGA touchscreen
• S40 6th edition UI
• 5 megapixel fixed-focus camera
• VGA video recording at 15fps
• Wi-Fi b/g/n
• Stereo FM radio with RDS, Visual radio
• Bluetooth v2.1 (with A2DP)
• Standard microUSB port (charging enabled)
• USB On-The-Go functionality
• microSD card slot (32 GB supported)
• 3.5mm audio jack
• Extra soft and precise haptic feedback

Main disadvantages

• Small screen (for a touch phone)
• No multitasking
• No GPS
• Fixed-focus camera
• No smart dialing
• No video-call camera
• No adequate storage out of the box
• No accelerometer sensor
• No document viewer

The Nokia C3-01 starts from roughly the same spot as its X3-02 sibling. And obviously, it isn’t going anywhere more exciting or advanced. This kind of phones have their limitations and they’re more than obvious. S40 handsets have been getting a lot of stick (at least from us) for the lack of even basic multitasking, smart dialing and a document viewer.

Modest retail package

The Nokia C3-01 Touch and Type package is nothing to write home about. We didn’t expect much better in this price range, but a microSD card to ensure adequate storage right out of the box would have been nice.Otherwise, there’s only room for sixteen five-megapixel shots on the internal memory.

Design and construction

If there’s a single form factor where the Nokia designers are certainly a cut above the rest, it would certainly be slim and classic candybars. The C3-01 Touch and Type is marvelous to look at with its sleek curved lines and metallic back. We got the silver one for review, though the other versions look quite appealing too.

You can clearly see the 6700 classic (which we still find to be one of the most attractive phones ever) genes in the C3-01. The good news is that the introduction of touchscreen and larger display hasn’t done any harm to the overall look. If anything, the C3-01 Touch and Type looks better than the 6700 classic and different enough so it doesn’t get boring.

We start the hardware inspection with the Nokia C3-01 2.4″ resistive touchscreen. Taking up the upper half of the front panel the LCD screen sports QVGA resolution and is capable of showing up to 256K colors. As you could imagine with specs like that the image quality is hardly something to write home about.

Brightness is good but contrast is mediocre at best. We are actually not sure if talking about depth of black is appropriate here – grey is more like it.

Despite employing the resistive technology the C3-01 Touch and Type touchscreen is sensitive enough not to be bothering. Despite coming from a series of capacitive units we had very little trouble adapting to it. Plus resistive seems like a bit better match for a transition device like it (you can always employ the help of a stylus). This is also the reason we don’t object much to the relatively small display size.

The final thing we’d like to note about the touchscreen is its haptic feedback, which is Nokia’s specialty in this department. Wherever you tap on the display, you’ll feel the vibration right under your finger, unlike most competitors, where vibration seems to come from the same spot regardless of where you click.

We’ve been wondering for a while now how Nokia manages to create the illusion of the vibration feedback changing its place depending where you touch the phone but we still haven’t found the answer. Not that it really matters – what matters is the real usability bonus that this feature adds. The vibration touch feedback of the Touch and Type series is a real treat.

On top of the C3-01 display of the C3-01 we found the ambient light sensor and the earpiece.

A familiar phonebook

The phonebook of the Nokia C3-01 will store about 2000 contacts depending on the fields you use, which isn’t as good as unlimited storage but should do for 99% of the users out there. You can set the phonebook to display contacts from the phone memory, SIM memory or both.

Adding a contact is simple and straightforward – the phone asks for number, first and last name and that’s it. When you need to add other details you can always go back and edit the contact.

Each contact can be assigned a variety of fields but the phone numbers are limited to 5. First names are separated from last names, eliminating problems, which may occur with synchronization. You can assign ringtones to each contact.

Contacts display as a list of names with thumbs. There’s kinetic scrolling but isn’t nearly as fluid as on some of the more recent S60 touch phones. When a contact is selected shortcuts are available to make a call, send text, view conversations, etc. You can view the contact’s details or add new ones too. Tapping and holding on a contact reveals extra options such as Edit, Delete, Move or Copy.

Telephony

The reception on the Nokia C3-01 was consistently good and in-call sound was crisp and clear. The lack of smart dialing was not surprising for an S40 device. There’s no voice dialing either, nor the Voice Clarity sound enhancement feature many other S40 phones have.

Good messaging

The messaging department is certainly up to the task. The Nokia C3-01 is capable of handling all the common message types including SMS, MMS, as well as flash and audio messages and there’s easy email setup, too.

The keyboard on the C3-01 is up to the task and will please the heavy texters out there. This time Nokia chose the classic layout, so you want need extra time to adjust. Conversations view mode is here too (that’s the threaded message feature) and in fact Conversations replaces the regular Inbox.

The editor is well organized and you won’t spend too much time finding your way around. Nokia has added four new virtual controls due to the lack of D-pad – two arrow keys, letter case switch and symbols. Of course you can tap to move the cursor wherever you want, but you’ll still need those two arrows for precise positioning. The symbol and letter case features are also available from the numpad, so there is no real need of them on the screen.

When composing the message there’s a character counter and message part counter available and when you’re done you pick the recipient from the contacts list, the recently used numbers, the call log or contact groups. You can have a favorite contact too (just one).

And of course, you can enter the number manually if it’s not on any of those lists.

The email client does pretty well to meet most user needs. It works with POP3, SMTP, and IMAP4 protocols and supports multiple email accounts. The email client supports SSL, which enables it to handle a Gmail account for example.

The better gallery

The S40 Gallery app was trying to be too many things at once and being a photo gallery wasn’t among its strong points. Now, there’s a separate icon in the main menu – Photos, which serves the one and only purpose of viewing the photos and videos on your phone.

The functionality is pretty much the same, but at least the Photo gallery gets rid of the cruft of file managing features and leaves only the image-related stuff in.

Music player is OK

The music player of the Nokia C3-01 has decent looks and a solid set of features. It has great all-round functionality, including album art, and a fair number of formats are supported.

The music player is controlled either via the on-screen interface or the shortcut hardware key just below the display . Songs can be filtered by artist, album and genre. The player handles AAC, AAC+, eAAC+, MP3, WMA, AMR-NB. Naturally the A2DP profile is supported, allowing the use of stereo Bluetooth earphones.

FM radio

An alternative to the preloaded content on C3-01 is the FM radio. It matches the music player interface and covers all basic functions.

Audio output is decent

Considering its price, the Nokia C3-01 Touch and Type did greatly in our audio quality test. That’s mostly true when used with an active external amplifier, as in those cases the Nokia C3-01 manages to pull off a spectacular performance, getting excellent scores throughout. Everything about its results screams high-end, including the loudness levels.

Unfortunately there is some notable deterioration when headphones are plugged in. Intermodulation distortion falls and frequency response worsens, but the truth is neither of those is too disturbing. The stereo crosstalk on the other hand raises high enough to become notable. It’s not the end of the world, but it certainly is an area where the C3-01 loses to its more expensive competitiros.

Limited Xvid support in the video player

As we expected, the limited XviD support from the X3-02 is back. As usual it managed to play most of the Xvid videos we threw at it (granted, files have to be up to 700MB and of up to nHD resolution). It’s not the best in the class, but it’s way better than we had hoped for.

Unfortunately the nHD MP4 files were too much for the new S40 video player.

The 5 megapixel camera is fixed-focus only

The Nokia C3-01 Touch and Type has a 5 megapixel camera– but there’s no autofocus. The maximum image resolution is 2592×1944 pixels.

Typical Series 40, the camera settings are rather limited. The available options include portrait mode, white balance, various effects and a self timer.

Photo quality comparison

We’ve also added the Nokia C3-01 Touch and Type to the database of our Photo Compare Tool. The Tool’s page has a quick how to guide and also what to look for.

Outdated video recording

Things don’t get any better with video recording. The C3-01 manages VGA resolution at 15 fps, but better video recording uses a lot more processing power than the C3-01 can’t afford.

The result is the same as the still images – low contrast, lack of detail, heavy compression, lots of over sharpening and purple fringing. Some of the videos can be enjoyed we guess but only on the phone’s display.

Excellent connectivity for a budget phone

The Nokia C3-01 offers quad-band GSM and UMTS support. There is also HSPA support, download speed potentially reaching 10.2 Mbps, and up speed as good as 2 Mbps.

Bluetooth is version 2.1 and A2DP is of course enabled. The Nokia C3-01 uses a microUSB port for both data connections and charging.

The bigger treat though is USB On-the-go. The Nokia C3-01 can access USB flash drives and even other phones. Of all the USB flash drives we tested, the C3-01 only failed with one (card readers don’t work either). Non-Nokia-made handsets generally refused to share their memory too.

If you happened to connect two USB on-the-go devices – it depends on which end the USB on-the-go cable is your “browsing” device to understand which opens which. By the way, a special USB-OTG-enabled cable like the one that came with the Nokia N8, is not included in the C3-01 Touch and Type’s box. You’ll have to buy one separately.

Anyway, the C3-01 successfully browsed the N8’s memory drive but, when we turned the connection the other way around, something odd happened. Both devices started flashing “Device not supported” warnings. So, your mileage may vary when using USB on-the-go to connect to other phones (both S40 and Symbian devices worked).

Wi-Fi connectivity is also at hand. In fact, the Wi-Fi is one of the key features of the Nokia C3-01 – it is one of the cheaper Wi-Fi enabled phones on the market.

The Nokia C3-01 Touch and Type also comes complete with a memory card slot. Coupled with a card reader it can usually give you the fastest data transfer rates.

And finally, there’s the standard 3.5mm audio jack, which allows you to use your own headphones, but doesn’t have TV-out functionality.

Good browser, small screen

Browsing the internet on the Nokia C3-01 is a pleasant experience. Even the most elaborate pages are rendered well and finding your way around is reasonably comfortable on the touch-enabled display.

Organizer and apps

The organizer on the Nokia C3-01 Touch and Type is well stocked as usual and things have been touch optimized.

The Calendar starts off with the month view – when you press and hold, a bigger number will pop up just above your finger so you can aim easier.

When there’s an event on that date, the event description will pop up instead (it’s not visible otherwise, just like on the old S40 version).

Day view is also available, but strangely, week view has gone missing. You have various kinds of events available – reminder, meeting call, birthday, anniversary and memo.

Social networking

Social networking has been creeping its way into Series 40 for a while, but this is probably the best implementation we’ve seen yet. The key differentiator here between the C3-01 and the C3 (the non-touch one) is the touch screen – Facebook has so many features that it’s impossible to have a simple interface. Which is where the touch screen comes in – it makes interactions much simpler.

In the Nokia C3-01 the Communities app is the SNS central. It handles both Facebook and Twitter accounts, including several accounts of each type (though only one Facebook and one Twitter account can be connected at a time).

The Facebook section supports the full communication capabilities of the site. You can view messages and events, friend requests and event invitations. Write on people’s wall and browse their profiles, post photos (either from the Gallery or you can snap a new one on the spot), post status updates, read news feeds and follow groups.

The renewed Ovi Store

The Ovi Store is evolving – it got a new user interface for the Symbian^3 version and we’re glad to report that this new interface has been carried over to the touch-enabled Series 40 phones.

Your account profile keeps track of all the apps you have installed under My stuff. You can now also select where games and apps should be installed and where audio and video should go. That’s nice – we wish Android had that right from the start.

There are already plenty of apps and games there, a lot of them free, and chances are that the most important apps will be there soon enough. They are still behind the big players in the app store game, but we’re seeing that the important apps are making their way to the Ovi Store. Other than that, we can live without the 50 thousand book titles and thousands of other questionable “apps”.

A few games on board

The Nokia C3-01 Touch and Type came with three games preinstalled.

Climate Mission is a series of environmentally-themed puzzles that will take you across the world. At the beginning of each challenge, there’s a small nugget of information. The game is fun and educational.

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