Which phone?

[BeanEgg]

I was looking at buying one of these phones:

X3
5130 Express Music
5230

Which one should I buy?

Or is there another phone you would recommend under £70.


Thanks in advance

[marriott0.01]

X3 is the best offering out of those..

[BeanEgg]

Thought so aswell, but it looks like cheap and feels cheap apparently.

[marriott0.01]

Thought so aswell, but it looks like cheap and feels cheap apparently.

Most phones at the price generally are because they are cheap. However Nokia have their C Series coming out soon which will be a new series which will specialise in cheap phones but obviously the best your going to get with them is probably:

http://conversations.nokia.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/Nokia-C5-4.jpg

And that's the C5 which looks very good. The Nokia C5 is basically a smartphone built into a feature phone and is good for Social aspects of life.

http://europe.nokia.com/find-products/devices/nokia-c5-00

[The Professor]

Avoid touch screen nokias like the plague. Isn't the X3 windows mobile? I haven't seen any reviews or anything.

Tbh the touch screen samsungs seem pretty solid for that price, or the non touchscreen nokias.

[xxMATTGxx]

Avoid touch screen nokias like the plague. Isn't the X3 windows mobile? I haven't seen any reviews or anything.

Tbh the touch screen samsungs seem pretty solid for that price, or the non touchscreen nokias.

There is a Nokia X3. Which looks like:

http://www.connectionpros.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/Nokia-X3-550x353.jpg

I use to have a Nokia 5800 (I'm thinking the X3 and X6 phones are the ones replacing this type) anyway, its a touch screen and it isn't a bad phone. Has some problems here and there, but Nokia take a long time pushing firmware updates out to the UK for sure.

[marriott0.01]

There is a Nokia X3. Which looks like:

http://www.connectionpros.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/Nokia-X3-550x353.jpg

I use to have a Nokia 5800 (I'm thinking the X3 and X6 phones are the ones replacing this type) anyway, its a touch screen and it isn't a bad phone. Has some problems here and there, but Nokia take a long time pushing firmware updates out to the UK for sure.

Nokia generally doesn't care about its lower-end userbase and pushes out firmware to those phones extremely slowly. However when you move onto something like the NSeries or the ESeries, then Nokia is much faster at pushing out the Firmware Updates.

Saying that, the option I showed you, the C5 is far superior to the X3 due to the OS it runs, instead of running Symbian ^1 or even Symbian ^2, it's running the far superior Symbian ^3 which is the latest version of Symbian for Smartphones and is a very good and clean cut OS, which is also Open Sourced.

[xxMATTGxx]

Nokia generally doesn't care about its lower-end userbase and pushes out firmware to those phones extremely slowly. However when you move onto something like the NSeries or the ESeries, then Nokia is much faster at pushing out the Firmware Updates.

Saying that, the option I showed you, the C5 is far superior to the X3 due to the OS it runs, instead of running Symbian ^1 or even Symbian ^2, it's running the far superior Symbian ^3 which is the latest version of Symbian for Smartphones and is a very good and clean cut OS, which is also Open Sourced.

Probably true. Very stupid of them if you ask me, it is normally the UK who have to wait for month and months before they get the latest firmware. (officially) It doesn't bother me now though as I have moved onto Android. I don't know why but I think the C5 looks pretty basics, probably still la good phone though like you have mentioned.

[The Professor]

There is a Nokia X3. Which looks like:

http://www.connectionpros.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/Nokia-X3-550x353.jpg

I use to have a Nokia 5800 (I'm thinking the X3 and X6 phones are the ones replacing this type) anyway, its a touch screen and it isn't a bad phone. Has some problems here and there, but Nokia take a long time pushing firmware updates out to the UK for sure.

Sorry SE name their Xperia phones like that, I kinda assumed X3 was another one of them *Embarassed smiley*

[marriott0.01]

Probably true. Very stupid of them if you ask me, it is normally the UK who have to wait for month and months before they get the latest firmware. (officially) It doesn't bother me now though as I have moved onto Android. I don't know why but I think the C5 looks pretty basics, probably still la good phone though like you have mentioned.

It's meant to look pretty basic, that is exactly the kind of phone Nokia have intended to make. That's because it's meant to be a Smartphone in disguise and it means Nokia can justify selling it for a cheaper price than their other smartphones. It's also Nokia's way of getting more people onto their smartphone devices and off their 'dumb-phone' - Nokia S40 devices.