If you are looking for a stylish smartphone, but you walk a tight budget, chances are that the C5 Nokia is already on your radar. The compact device running Symbian looks good, cheap and can find everything you need for smartphones. Especially if you use your mobile phone to make voice-guided navigation. The C5 Nokia comes with a lifetime license, which costs exactly zero. Now, is not one of the handsets with the best claim for money in the market? As always there are trade-offs involved, but the price hung on the metal casing will not think twice.

Key Facts :
Quad-band GSM / GPRS / EDGE /
3G Dual Band (900/2100) with 10 Mbps HSDPA and HSUPA 2Mbps
Clean and well built, metal body
2.2 “QVGA color screen, 16 million, an excellent sunlight readability
Symbian OS, S60 3.2 UI
ARM11 600 MHz processor, 128 MB RAM
3 Megapixel fixed focus camera with LED flash
VGA video recording at 15 fps
GPS receiver and voice guided navigation without a license for life
Stereo FM radio with RDS, Visual Radio
Bluetooth (with A2DP)
Standard micro USB port (supported load)
microSD card slot (16GB, 2GB included)
Smart Dialing
3.5mm audio jack
Great audio quality
Document Viewer preinstalled
Major drawbacks
No WLAN
Small Screen
No accelerometer (not automatic screen rotation)
Fiddly memory card slot
Document Viewer does not support editing

Last week we reviewed the Nokia 6700 slide and if it was not the revelation, he did well to assure us, Nokia has yet when it comes to pure, compact and affordable smartphones.

The C5 Nokia is not a competitor of the 6700 slide, but a partner at the bottom of the non-touch smartphones. We will not be enough to say that the user a choice is a good thing – you can have (and pay) only the features you need.

One thing that the C5 will not give Nokia’s WLAN. We have been with the knife 6700. It certainly is not good on the spec sheet, but we hope that the performance and usability to make it.