Nokia C3, Nokia C6, and Nokia E5 Will Focus on Social Networking Discussion

[Ed Hardy]

Nokia has announced three inexpensive phones geared toward messaging and social networking. They will feature different designs and software, but are all going to include full QWERTY keyboards and access to email, IM and Facebook, among other online communication services.

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[Hook]

I'm done with 3.2" screens, but that C6 is very nice. Hope it gets a good carrier deal as it could finally give Symbian some traction in the consumer market. Hope the build quality is good.

[wshwe]

Sounds like Nokia is going after the same market that Microsoft is with the Kin.

[Drillbit]

I'm more impressed with the Nokia C3 than the Microsoft Kin. The C3 has a ridiculous capability to price ratio, and nails the social networking concept much better than the Kin with a far more straightforward approach.

[Antoine Wright]

@drillbit - I agree. They are all really decent, but the C3 and C5 could end up doing exactly the same as MS is trying for with Kin 1/2 - with a better or more familiar to carriers kind of support/market focus.

[Drillbit]

Microsoft Kin can't do a lot of things. Starting with IM, none of it. No SD cards. No uploading pictures to Twitter. What's a "messaging" and a "social" phone if you don't have instant messaging?

But Nokia C3 does have IM, and not one, but four supported channels ---Yahoo, Windows Live, GTalk and Ovi Chat. Its ridiculous that a Microsoft product don't have Live Chat but this cheaper Nokia featurephone does.

Kin does polling every 15 minutes. It does not have true push email. The C3, costing much less, is the first Series 40 outside of special markets to have Nokia Messaging. That's push email.

I see Kin having a concept problem, but the C3 is just pure cheap featurephone plain and simple. How can you market Kin to an audience where you have to explain what the hell "Cloud Computing" is? A touchscreen, a nVidia Tegra, a data plan suggests to me a device that is more expensive than a featurephone, but not without the flexibility of a smartphone. This means a device that does not have the advantages of either.