Nokia Oro is the C7 in Gold and Anna

Nokia today announced its latest luxury handset, the Nokia Oro — a replica of the Nokia C7 running Symbian Anna and plated with 18-carat gold, sapphire crystal and leather.

The Nokia Oro will carry all the specs of the C7 but with the added bells and whistles on the finishing.

Nokia C7 specs:
3.5 AMOLED display @ 640Ã—360 pixels
Symbian Anna
350MB internal memory
8GB mass storage
up to 32GB via microSD
680MHz CPU
256MB RAM
8MP camera with dual LED flash
720p HD video recording @ 25fps
WiFi 802.11 b/g/n
HSDPA 10.2MBps, HSUPA 2.0Mbps
Bluetooth 3.0
FM Radio Tuner
FM Transmitter
1200mAH battery

The handset comes in white + gold and black + gold. This unit is only for those who have tons of cash to spare and just want to be different.

It’s been a Nokia tradition to build a limited-edition, high-class handset for years and it’s the Oro’s turn this year. Expect to shell out over Php50,000USD 852INR 72,230EUR 812CNY 6,205 for this baby when it hits the stores.

I remember some premium Nokia handsets used to sell around those range — Nokia 8800 Sapphire at Php56,500USD 963INR 81,620EUR 917CNY 7,012 and the Nokia 8800 Arte for Php47,500USD 809INR 68,619EUR 771CNY 5,895.

Abe Olandres

Abe is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of YugaTech with over 20 years of experience in the technology industry. He is one of the pioneers of blogging in the country and considered by many as the Father of Tech Blogging in the Philippines. He is also a technology consultant, a tech columnist with several national publications, resource speaker and mentor/advisor to several start-up companies.

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31 Comments

anon says:

14 years ago

wala ng magawa ang nokia
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Wella says:

14 years ago

Wow..Very luxurious nga! But I still love the color of the original C7.:) But for the ones who love gold, and the status that comes with having that kind of phone, then that would probably be a great buy.
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1001 says:

14 years ago

how about a gold nokia n8 with symbian anna?or an gold nokia E7? para di lang nokia c7 ang meron.
pero dapat available na ang symbian anna update para sa symbian^3 phones
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Fleeb says:

14 years ago

@anon, this is not the first time Nokia is doing this. Nokia’s Vertu luxury brand was founded in 1998.
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anon says:

14 years ago

now that they are losing market shares, this kind of strategy, although not new, makes them look desperate.
Fleeb says:

14 years ago

They were doing it even when they are not losing market shares.
leeto says:

14 years ago

bakit kaya may mga taong panay ang negative comments? We should remember that we have our ownchoice which differs from the choice of others, so please respect.
tfcnow01 says:

14 years ago

kung ang gusto mo eh alang negative comments, di hindi pagrerespeto yun, bawat tao me karapatan sabihin kung ano opinyon niya gaya mo. maaring sayo negatibo maaring sa iba hindi.

TDroid21 says:

14 years ago

Outside skin is all glamour and flashy BUT look at teh inside specs! It’s like buying a Pagani Zonda F with a toyota engine under its chassis! XD
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bong says:

14 years ago

Yes with Toyota 2JZ-GTE…engine

Jay Quing says:

14 years ago

parang ginawang kikay ang NOKIA C7… as usual pang-sosi lang ang mga gnyang phones ng nokia… why buy ng ganyan kung parehas lang ng specs sa C7…
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Fleeb says:

14 years ago

You’d be surprise how many are willing to pay higher for a cellphone of the same specs just to be smug. I had a colleague who is an authorized retailer on the sides. Some of the items he sells are those “special edition” phones that cost as much as PHP70K+ and he told me people buy that stuff.
tfcnow01 says:

14 years ago

i won’t be surprised at all, people have different taste, different likes and dislikes, different amount of money to spend on stuff they like. it would be really boring and unrealistic if everybody wanted the same thing and this is most of the time other people can’t understand or comprehend. because people have different levels of comprehension too :-)

nexusboy says:

14 years ago

no amount of GOLD can get NOKIA back on top. give it up NOKIA, you’re no good. at least for now.

NOKIA should stop talking ’til the MANGO is in!
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mr. totoo says:

14 years ago

before you say anything bad about the product, please ask yourself this…. “is the product intended for users like you?”
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sa u ako says:

14 years ago

tama ka dyan mr. Totoo…h0w ab0ut giving nokia haters that advice’ -n0t even intentd f0r you..
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jugs says:

14 years ago

If you know that you don’t belong to the target customers, it really is wise to just keep silent. after all, there really are people who belong to the “money-is-no-object” class and for reasons not acceptable or understandable to lower economic classes, they buy stuff that they themselves(the elite ones) know are too costly and even impractical or way overpriced. i know a person who is filthy rich (though we’re not close at all) and he buys things that are up to his “class.” and you know what? he doesn’t say anything about cheap products and of those who buy them. he somehow knows how to keep silent about other things when saying something won’t do any good nor help. i guess there is wisdom in that. from that, i myself learned not to make unnecessary comments about things like what nokia is doing with their nokia oro. oro by the way means gold. and not everyone can afford to buy gold… especially if it’s on a phone.

ciao!
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jill says:

14 years ago

“Target market”, yes. These folks should shut up because the product is certainly not for them. Some people simply go out and buy things because they like it, and not just to show off that they can afford it. “Class” is not bashing products or people.