Nokia C3-01 Touch and Type Preview:
Nokia C3-01 is a second Touch and Type Device after the announcement of X3-02 Touch and type, its a successor of Nokia C3. Both of these phones shall be released under Symbian 40 platform. So, now its apparent that Nokia World 2010 was not all about Symbian^3 but they do seem interested in launching phones on previous mobile operating systems, however, its good that Nokia has been introducing hi-tech and highly demanded features in their upcoming handsets on previous platforms. C3-01 Touch and type was announced earlier in September, 2010 and is said to be released in 4th quarter of 2010, which is little after the release of X3-02.
Following is the short comparison between C3-01, 6700 Classic and X3-02 all of them have something similar, infact C3-01 looks pretty similar to 6700 classic.
Some of the Most prominent features goes like this.
- WCDMA 850/900/1900/2100
- GSM 850/900/1800/1900
- Wi-Fi 802.11b/d/g/n enabled
- Nokia Messaging 3.0 service
- Acces to ocial channels, such as Facebook and Twitter
- 3.5mm headset jack
- Bluetooth 2.1 enabled
- Music player
- 111 x 47.5 x 11 mm in dimensions
- 100 grams in weight
- FM radio with RDS
- 30MB internal memory
- MicroSD card storage support up to 32GB
There is not much difference between the price of X3-02 touch type and C3-01, it can be purchased for the price of $195 USD, which is slightly higher than X3-02 which is priced at $168 USD. Prices might vary and depend on the carrier and retailers.
[Via Mobilephones.pk]
I’m not sure people will appreciate the vastly decreased user storage down to 30MB :(