Nokia company has announced the launch of a line of Cseries devices, which will include models which are rich in features and affordable. Nokia C5 smartphone opens the new series, based on the platform of S60 third edition.

At the end of last year, Nokia CEO Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo said that next year the company would present many new smart phones at affordable prices. Today Nokia keeps that promise starting the line of the budget phones Nokia Cseries. Let us remind that the company’s portfolio already includes a line of Nseries, Eseries and Xseries. Nseries include devices with maximum functionality, oriented for “geeks” and, consequently, most expensive, Eseries include devices optimized for e-mail and messaging, mainly oriented at corporate users. Xseries include multimedia devices for active audience. Cseries will also include low-cost feature-rich devices, oriented at the mass market. HTC successfully launches devices with similar positioning, for example Tattoo.

Nokia C5 opens the new line, made in a classic form-factor and based on the platform of the S60 third edition. It is equipped with a 2.2-inch screen with resolution of 320 x 240 pixels, a 3.2-megapixel camera, a 3,5 mm AV jack, radio, GPS-receiver and support for third-generation networks. Nokia stresses that this model is equipped with a free step by step and automotive navigation, but this is not its unique feature – the appropriate application (Ovi Maps 3) works on other devices.

The phone book of Nokia C5 allows you to see the status of contacts in the Facebook social network, and the home screen allows you to place a link to three friends for quick access to functions such as voice calls and messages. There are applications for direct access to Facebook, MySpace, YouTube and other sites.

Nokia Messaging service allows you to automatically receive text messages from different email accounts and messaging services. Mail, however, can be obtained without Nokia Messaging – mobile phone is provided with applications to work with the email by protocols POP3, IMAP4 and SMTP. Work time of Nokia C5 in offline regime is up to 12 hours of talk time and up to 26 days in standby mode.

The smartphone will be available in white and gray colours and will be on sale in the 2nd quarter of 2010 for a suggested retail price of €135 excluding taxes. MicroSD memory card capacity of 2 GB will be included in the device. The maximum supported memory card size in thr mobile phone is 16 GB. In the future, other smartphones of the series will be produced, while the number five in the labeling of products means that the current device will be based on functionality for the middle model line.

Nokia’s share of volume shipments of mobile phones, according to Gartner, last year decreased to 36.4% compared to 38.6% in 2008. According to the results, the company sold about 441 million cell phones, which is 2.2 percentage points less compared to 2008. In order to strengthen its position in the global market, last year Nokia announced about its intention to reduce the range of models and begin producing more affordable smartphones. In addition, the company signed an agreement with Intel, within the frames of which Maemo and Moblin open software platforms were merged into the MeeGo project. According to analysts, the effect of this transaction will manifest itself not early than the second half of 2010.

Nokia has decided to use a new system of marking of mobile phones. This step aims to facilitate the orientation of the usersto the model line of the Finnish manufacturer.

For example, yesterday, a phone was announced that is marked according to the new nomenclature system. It’s Nokia C5 smartphone, which is included in C series (available solutions). Apart this quite cool series there are also the following series: X series (music phones), E series (business-class smartphones), N series (flagship multifunction devices). But the phone which belongs to a particular series will be indicated through the corresponding letter, and the position among the series will be denoted by its main digits. The greater the number is, the stronger are the technical characteristics of the device . Thus, it turns out that the most advanced smartphone of Finnish manufacturer will be marked by N9 index.

Nokia Company believes that the new system of marking of mobile phones, developed early in 2008, will provide certain impression of the device, only by its name.

Nokia E66 Phone can become an irreplaceable tool in business management. It is a representative of the “corporate” line of Eseries, and therefore has many features that will be very useful for business people. Nokia E66 is created on the platform of the S60 3rd Edition Feature Pack 1 operating system and has a QuickOffice application, which allows working with office documents. The “heart” of Nokia E66 is ARM processor 11 with a clock speed of 369 MHz, which provides high-quality Internet navigation.

The phone enables users to view full web-page and run dozens of applications. Nokia E66 users can download a lot of games and useful for both work and recreation programs free from the net. The device is equipped with Wi-fi (IEEE 802.11g), Bluetooth 2.0 with EDR. A great advantage of Nokia E66 is a function of VoIP, which allows using the Internet in order to make calls by the IP-telephony. The phone also allows you to install TruPhone – the analog of Skype. Nokia E66 Display’s size is 2.36-inch, has QVGA resolution (320×240 pixels, 48h36 mm) and displays up to 16 million colors. The automatic screen rotation can be very convenient for users depending on the vertical and horizontal position of the phone on the ground – however, Nokia E66 allows you to disable this feature.

The device is equipped with a 3.2-megapixel camera with a CMOS-matrix, autofocus and flash, which makes fairly decent shots. Nokia E66 offers users the ability to use multiple shooting modes. In addition, with the help of the phone you can record videos with the quality of 15 frames per second and a maximum resolution of 320×240 pixels. Nokia E66 has broad musical abilities. The player of the phone is capable of playing audio files of many formats (MP3, AAC, E-AAC, WMA), and provides the A2DP stereo audio transmission via Bluetooth to a headset. One of the main advantages of Nokia E66 is a built-in GPS-navigator.

The phone is equipped with about 110 MB of internal memory and supports microSD cards of any size. Lithium-polymer battery of Nokia E66 BL-4U with 1000 mAh capacity provides device with power for over 7.5 hours of talk time and 264 hours – in standby mode. Buying Nokia E66 means to get a device that has many useful functions for business. Furthermore, Nokia E66 is a device of the representative class, which case is made of steel. It will underline your high social status and impeccable sense of style. Nokia E66 will be sold in two colors – white and silver. The price of Nokia E66 is perfectly consistent with the quality of the phone.