Nokia C3 Review & 2011 Images

Nokia C3 Review

As we all know, mobile tech publications are usually swamped with news and reviews regarding zillion dollar smartphones and the new iPhone 4 – but what about the lower end of the market?
Well, it too is a pretty competitive place and Nokia intends to give it a royal shake-up with its new device, the Nokia C3. But is it any good, and more importantly, can it fight off the competition from LG, Samsung and INQ?
When you first take the Nokia C3 out of its box you could be forgiven for thinking that you’ve been sent the wrong device – it looks expensive, has a beautiful metallic finish and a full BlackBerry-esque Qwerty keyboard.
And this is something of an aberration from Nokia, albeit a pleasant one, as its low-end devices usually look, well, just that: lowly, plastic and cheap.
The Nokia C3 is none of these things. The device is beautifully crafted featuring a metal back plate and high-shine plastic on the front, which looks, at first glance like its metal.

Nokia C3 Images:

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Nokia C3

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Nokia C3

Nokia C3

Nokia X7 Review & 2011 Pictures

Nokia X7 Review

The Nokia X7 ought to be a flagship smartphone – it has a vast screen, it runs a revamped touchscreen OS and it looks rather nice too.
OK, it isn't 3D capable like the LG Optimus 3D or the upcoming HTC Evo 3D, but it has an 8MP camera, super video playback and, at first glance, plenty of storage capacity.
The Nokia X7 runs Symbian Anna, a revamped version of Symbian ^3. Now, as Nokia is about to get all warm and cosy with Microsoft's Windows Phone 7 Mango, do we care that ^3 may have been improved from the rather disappointing baseline it set in handsets including the Nokia N8 and E7?
Well yes, we do actually. The X7 is in the wild, and it's only fair that we are interested in how well it performs.
We've nabbed a spot of video with the X7, so see how it fares in real-life use:

Nokia X7 Pictures:

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