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    Nokia C3-01 Touch and Type- long term review

    Hi guys.
    After my Samsung Solid Immerse long term 6 month review which resulted in 2 extra replacements and finally giving up with it i chose to return to Nokia and get the Touch and Type.
    A quick recap- i like a phone with normal buttons, not a smart phone, with some good physical strength and quite robust. Text/sms is vital. Blue tooth. A torch. And clear screen. And after a month it's working very well :-)
    i'm also using it right now online via wifi on Opera's mini browser :-)
    So the good?
    Lovely clicky keys. Crystal screen. Cheap online accessories (leather case in use to keep it safe, plus screen cover, all direct from china for very little dough.) nokia pc suite for easy back up's. Good signal reception. Excellent solid software with not a single glitch in 5 weeks use :-)

    the bad- not a lot. A couple of the available menu options placeable on the desk top don't actually work so have to access main menu for them (ie email)
    lcd back light not strong, very hard to read screen in bright sun.
    And it takes a little practice to use as some functions require touch screen and then keypad again. But that's just practice.

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    Re: Nokia C3-01 Touch and Type- long term review

    The touch screen is better than the reviews i read. It's amazingly sensitive and detailed. I'm got a cocktail stick to use opera's smaller menu options and the screen IS super fine! It's also great to scroll through photo's like "normal people with smart phone's do" as a kind work colleague pointed out ;-)
    the 5mp camera takes good shots and the touch screen has zoom, options etc on and with a touch they disappear to leave full screen. Very intuitive.
    As i think it's clear by now, and as i'm using it to type this easily online, if you want a normal phone, that texts easily but that's useable online too, with good camera and email, solid software and 3 days battery with fair use, this is one to consider.

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    Re: Nokia C3-01 Touch and Type- long term review

    I feel for Nokia. They've lost market share because they don't compete with iphones. But for me, this offers the ideal combo. Proper rigid keys, not qwerty. But a very detailed touch screen. It's fine enough that a cocktail stick is useable on fine detail menus but i can navigate web pages with keypad too. Opera Mini is genius. For the un initiated, you visit m.opera.com with your phones browser, install the suggested opera mini once opera's web site identifies your mobile and then their web server reads the websites you visit, compresses them to fit your mobile and sends the details to you. Obviously they track your use that way but it works really well. And this phone surf's really well.

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    Re: Nokia C3-01 Touch and Type- long term review

    Something which is very intuitive is finding people in your address book. Although you can scroll up and down with the screen, its much easier to type their name and for heavy users of text it's far more natural to do this. Then choose the person from the touch screen. It works better than it sounds!

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    Re: Nokia C3-01 Touch and Type- long term review

    A cocktail stick only works because of the finger-unfriendly technology used on the screen ("resistive" sensor, whereas smartphones use finger-friendly "capacitative")

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    Re: Nokia C3-01 Touch and Type- long term review

    If that were true then an htc wildfire and an ipod touch would work with my fingers. . . Which they don't.

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    Re: Nokia C3-01 Touch and Type- long term review

    Quote Originally Posted by Zak33 View Post
    If that were true then an htc wildfire and an ipod touch would work with my fingers. . . Which they don't.
    using your fingertip not fingernail?

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    Quote Originally Posted by directhex View Post
    using your fingertip not fingernail?
    oh i've tried everything. Not sure why but i just can't get iphone's to do what i touch/say. Which is why i so love normal keypads. Texting fast is a mess on a touch screen.
    But what i'm getting at is that reviewers lead me to believe this phone's touch screen was some archaic cash till style technology and it's just not. . . It works really well. The thing's it struggles with is only size limited. The sheer amount of stuff on screen (by requirement) requires a toothpick not the rubbishmess of a screen technology.;>
    i'm posting this with confidence and i'm suprised by the quality of the screen :-)

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    Re: Nokia C3-01 Touch and Type- long term review

    More time has passed and I'm finding my way around the good and the bad.

    Battery life is fine as a phone and text unit, and 4 to 5 days is easy with moderate phone use and heavy text. But 3G access (unsuprisingly) kills it. However, it's still easy to get 2 days full out of a battery charge with email and browsing.

    Adding a Favourite Person to your text menu is not easy however.

    When sending a text, the final menu to add a recipient has a FAVOURITE box, and the only way I can find to add someone to it, is to add them from that final menu.. ie you need to be sending a text to add .. or alter them.

    I cannot find anyway to alter it in a menu other than at the sending moment.

    Only one favourite can be added, but multiple people can be a part of that "favourite" - like a group. To add or edit them you need to be about to send a text and click Options. It seems very weird.

    If anyone knows how to do it through the normal menu, please say!

    I know summer's been pretty sparse, but the sunlight that we HAVE had, makes the screen hard to us. I think maybe I got the wrong screen protector, maybe a tinted one would have helped. As it is, it's not impossible but it is hard to see in direct light.

    Signal strength and reception is superb, and for text particularly, this phone sends ansd receives with just a whiif of signal. I've not needed to turn off 3G to get a stable signal at all, which is clear water improvement over the Samsung Solid Immerse I had earlier this year.

    So far... still a very good phone and worthy of owning.

    (torch mode is pretty good... had a use for it.. it did ok)

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    Re: Nokia C3-01 Touch and Type- long term review

    close to 3 weeks more use and I've got into the camera.. it's really pretty jolly sharp.

    Being a "bar" phone (ie buttons on the bottom, screen to the top) people are suprised when I show them a series of photo's "smartphone-stylee" by scrolling through with a slide of my finger

    Text speed and reliability is rock solid still and I'm more grateful for this than I am for oxygen. It never fails to send, never fails to receive and is a joy to text on.

    I'm getting better and better with Opera and can surf HEXUS easily now. Typing into the username and password style boxes is easy enough and Google works well.

    But deleting large volumes of email is slow. I can "select many" but have to click each bluumin email, manually, to get a tick in the box. I cannot find a SELECT ALL function. A real weakness i think.

    However.. on the whole I am pleased as punch. It charges fast and with a cheapo Chinese import 69 p charger in my car, it's good to go every day.

    Magnetic clasped case is making it look like new too....

    Nokia.. I'm sorry I left you. But you do still make rock solid, dependable, well sorted phones.

    thank you

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    Re: Nokia C3-01 Touch and Type- long term review

    More time passes. Few minor irritations relating to where icon's are on screen and my desire to use them one handed. Simply means i hold this phone at base for text button access but the address book is top of touch screen and it's a long stretch or a reposition of the phone down my palm. Minor irritation but would be better if i could rearrange the order of menu items. Being picky though.
    Have purchased chinese imported touch screen stilo pen thing. Little alloy pen and lanyard. Unscrews and has soft point. Work really well. £2 for 2 delivered and work well. Replaced the cocktail stick ;-)
    still very happy with this phone. No issues on any reliability. Rock solid. Great signal for text. And 3G AND H connection in same place old samsung failed on same network.

    Quote Originally Posted by Advice Trinity by Knoxville
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