Nokia outs C5-03 touch phone on Symbian^1

And when we thought Nokia’s all out with their new Symbian^3 OS, they’ll surprise us with this Nokia C5-03 running on Symbian^1 with a resistive touch screen.

The Nokia C5-03 looks like a cross between the Nokia 5800 XM and the Nokia C6-01, only a cheaper and dumbed-down version.

Nokia C5-03 specs:
3.2″ resistive screen @ 360×640 pixels
ARM 11 600MHz processor
40MB storage
128MB RAM
HSDPA 10.2Mbps, HSUPA 2Mbps
Bluetooth 2.0
WiFi 802.11 b/g
5MP camera
FM Radio tuner
GPS w/ aGPS support
Li-Ion 1000mAh battery
Symbian OS v9.4, Series 60 rel. 5

We know Nokia tried to make all possible types of phone for all kinds of people but a Symbian^1 resistive touchscreen phone does not seem to fit the picture. At 270 euros (~Php10,300) before taxes, maybe it’s just price positioning or addressing the continuous demand for their old but still popular 5800XM.

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

nokia fan boy - former says:

15 years ago

i wonder if nokia is listening to their customers. cmon nokia, you can do better than this!
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Rob Sanchez says:

15 years ago

Waitaminuet! They went from Symbian 3 to 1? Aw, not good–at the very least they should’ve priced it lower than 10k.
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PICTUREISTA says:

15 years ago

What’s happening to Nokia?
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JunAlquis says:

15 years ago

they really should realize that resistive touch screen is not working. phones with the same price range have capacitive touch.
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yizhan says:

15 years ago

pretty impressive move from nokia applying a resistive touch screen into a series 60 phone but not quite good since Symbian 1 OS has limited capabilities unless they made some upgrade to Version 9.4.
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watusi says:

15 years ago

diference between symbian 1 and symbian 3 and symbian 60 ver.5
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loadex says:

15 years ago

Maybe Nokia wants a plethora of models that every market/niche will be served, and hopefully buy a Nokia unit in the end.
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Mike says:

15 years ago

I think the problem is nokia invested heavily on symbian OS that having a hard time competing with iphone & android. As those 2 OS becoming popular, demands for symbian went down dramatically. Nokia should changed its strategy and instead follow the samsung style of dealing with multiple flatforms. Just like samsung nokia is also hardware manufacturer so, they should invest also in android, win phone 7, etc.
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Les says:

15 years ago

I agree with @Mike, Nokia Android will be a hit! Symbian is so dead!
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nokia fan boy - former says:

15 years ago

nokia cant just do away with symbian because they invested a lot of money acquiring it. i think that was a bad move. i noticed a lot of first generation iPhones being used by the masses now. this is bad signal for phones running on symbian lalo na kung resistive screen pa.
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