Nokia C7 review

We review the Nokia C7, a slim touchscreen device running on Symbian^3

The Nokia E7 may have been the star of the show at Nokia World, but there were two other devices launched there too - the C6 and C7.

Both the C6 and C7 feature a touchscreen and run on Symbian^3. Where they begin to divide is in the size of the screen and capabilities - both speed and internal memory.

The Nokia C7 features a 3.7-inch AMOLED capacitive touchscreen, although Nokia neglected to include its ClearBlack Display, as present on the Nokia E7 and C6.

Although the Nokia C7's screen is pretty special even without CBD, it does suffer from the usual greasy fingerprints you'll get from any touchscreen device.

Resolution-wise, the Nokia C7 isn't the best of the bunch at 360x640 pixels, but it's seamless and you really can't see any pixels unless you look so close it's uncomfortable and gives you eye ball ache.

The haptic feedback on the Nokia C7 is satisfyingly springy, just as you'd like one to be. This may get a little too much for some, but you can turn down the intensity if you so wish.

The Nokia C7 we were testing was a final version prototype - basically as finished as it can be before being a retail version and this really showed in comparison to the prototype Nokia N8 we tested in depth. There were no jitters, no crashes and jerks between homescreens or switching applications.

This could be in part because Nokia has installed an ARM 11 680 MHz processor with 3D Graphics accelerator, but it could also be because Nokia has decided to finish the Symbian^3 OS a little bit more before allowing it to be set out in the wild. Either way, we're pretty impressed.

The C7 itself is thin and ergonomic. At 117.3x56.8x10.5 mm, it's the perfect size to fit in your hand, and it's pretty light in comparison to the smaller C6, at 130g.

The design is minimalist, but this is no bad thing.

Underneath the touchscreen, there's a raised menu button and either side of that, call answer and call end keys. Like the screen, these get greasy because they're covered in shiny plastic. We'd rather they were touch sensitive but the hardware buttons work just fine for the actions they're designed for.