Cell Phone Comparisons

Nokia seems to follow the trend with its latest C-5 model, resembling an iPhone mostly because of the screen and it appears to be very popular among cell phone and smartphone users. Of  course, Nokia has shown with other occasions that can provide the right technology for the right user. With the C, E, X, N series devices, Nokia tried to deliver the right personal technical features at a right price for every category of users, from the low end to the high end techno-geek.

The C-5 model is not a top line phone, even though it might give such an impression, and neither a bottom line one. This new Nokia device can be described as a middle of the road phone with the right look for a right price. The phone features a highspeed packet access for data transfer, and is able to take very detailed and high revolution  pictures using its over 15 GB hard drive. For the moment, the product is not available for the U.S market, but the company has managed to sell C-5s like hot cakes on pre-orders to dealer networks from Europe, Asia, Middle East, or Africa.

The phone provides the possibility to use Google and Microsoft email, and other instant messaging services. For an approximate price of $180, C-5 is fully equipped for the social networking teen, using all Facebook and Myspace applications, as well as other foreign social networking websites. This proves once again that Nokia is delivering what users want, as Nokia cell phone smart technology has found to exploit, as well as competitors like Apple, Google and others, looking for a possibility to finish with the all-be-all to all users philosophy. Due to its efforts, the company is doing well on the market place and their profits for the 2009-2010 period seem to demonstrate that consumers are quite pleased with their technology and services.

The C-5 handset is one of the cheapest smartphone from Nokia, with a price of 135 euros, excluding taxes and subsidies. Such a product can help Nokia raise its market share in a smartphone segment, also increasing their average sale prices in a moment when the company continues to lead the global smartphone market share with about 40%, but still has lost ground to Apple (iPhone) and RIM`s Blackberry. Anyway, models like the C-5 are not to be compared withe the iPhone or Blackberry, but seem to help operators to sell mobile data packages to consumers, while the low prices enable them to keep investments in the subsidizing phone sales area.

Volumes on the smartphone market seem to increase in 2010, analysts forecasting a 50% growth as the handset vendors are pushing advanced features, a while ago exclusive to pricey models. This way the consumers get a higher and higher technology into cheaper and cheaper phones. 2010 is predicted to be a year booming of cheap smartphones, coupled with flat data rates that do nothing but encourage the mobile Internet usage around the world.

In case you don`t remember, Nokia has developed the C-series focusing on personal networking capabilities, and for the moment has four smartphone product families. The E-series phones are suitable for business users, while the X-series were developed for youth and music, and the N-series for the most advance models.