This is not having a 5 MP camera instead it's only have a 2 MP camera. Features are all same as Nokia C5-03 with only difference in Camera resolution and Wi-Fi. There is no Wi-Fi in this version which is absurd. There is no point of buying Nokia C5-04 instead of Nokia C5-03.Amazon listed this product with wrong details of 5 MP camera which is actually confusing. I am returning this product due to this.
I've just bought this phone from Wind Mobile in Canada. It looks like their entire product line is being replaced so I am guessing that this phone has reached the end of its marketing cycle.
First, the good stuff about this phone. It's decent-looking in design, with decent construction quality. The screen colours are not lacking, and the interface looks quite pleasant. Despite have a resistive touchscreen, the "buttons" on this phone do not require too much pressure to press, which reduces fatigue. Typing on the screen number pad and QWERTY keyboard is relatively easy. The OVI Maps is an excellent application for GPS navigation on foot and vehicle, thus I recommend that if you do want this phone to consider purchasing the 3G data plan if the rates are not too high. The themes and wallpapers can also be customized. The Symbian OS seems to be pretty easy to use, with an intuitively-designed interface. As microSD cards up to 16GB can be inserted into the phone, users can prevent clogging up their phone memory with apps. Speakerphone volume can get very loud, but may be a little distorted when set to max. As for the call quality itself, it's great, as that's what Nokia phones are renowned for.
Now the bad stuff, which stacks up against this phone. The lack of a Wifi adapter on this phone is infuriating, as 3G speeds are not as fast as promised by my cellphone provider. Opening any webpage, downloading anything, or simply transmitting and receiving data over the internet takes minutes to accomplish. I believe that this is also because the phone only has 128MB of RAM. When connecting to the computer by the provided USB cable, the phone tends to freeze several times. Thus I've given up on the OVI suite and have resorted to copying files directly from my computer to the microSD card itself. The web browser itself is showing its age, which is true of the Symbian S60 OS itself. Also, without a capacitive touchscreen, performing any tasks in the web browser is tedious and slow. The shortcuts on the home screen cannot be changed, so accessing installed apps can be tedious and discouraging. The phone memory is a paltry 75 MB. After installing the updates from OVI suite it's already almost full and I have to start deleting stuff. The OVI store itself has a relatively limited selection of apps, which is a positive indicator for its demise (after all Nokia is switching to Windows Mobile based smartphones). The camera isn't bad because it's 2MP (on the contrary, many cellphones with 2MP do take more than acceptable pictures), it's because it's fixed focus, which means the lens can't adjust at all when taking photos. Thus the pictures are downright terrible. Same thing for the video. Another thing for music fans the phone doesn't support East Asian characters (or any characters other than the Latin alphabet AFAIK), so be prepared to deal with long lists of box characters when searching for music on your phone.
As a smartphone, this is an outright failure. By restricting the S60 OS features, memory size, and RAM capacity, and taking away Wifi, Nokia took away potentially great qualities from a phone that could have been MUCH better (it's a shame that a 600MHz processor was paired with such lacklustre hardware). The lack of the decent camera scares away the one last potential demographic for this phone the teenager on a budget. In fact, they should have just gotten rid of the camera itself and focused on improving the hardware specs. Remember the saying, "Jack of all trades, master of none?" Well, this phone is not even a jack of all trades. It nearly fails to perform any of its smartphone functions adequately.
The redeeming features of this phone are it's call quality, loud speakerphone and excellent GPS navigation app. However, if one wants to use the GPS, they need 3G internet access. That doesn't seem to be worth it when you consider that the web browser is annoying to use, and access to the OVI store is terribly slow. As Nokia makes plenty of phones with good call quality and loud speakerphones, one might as well just buy a normal Nokia cellphone at half the price. Stay away from this phone. In fact, when my parents get new phones from Wind's new lineup in December, I'll probably switch with one of them. For the meantime, I'll be using this thing as a phone, messaging device, GPS, and music player all of which are functions provided by the typical cellphone today.
Edit (September 13, 2011): I realize that I may have been a little too critical of this phone, so here's an update.
The Swype program comes standard with this phone, so typing has been made much easier. As you use the Swype function more, it gets better at guessing the word that you want to input. I find texting others and answering emails easy now that I have started using Swype. Also, once you install the Opera mobile web browser, browsing and loading pages becomes much faster. However, it does not support Flash so you'll have to resort to your default web browser for that. The OVI Apps store may be lacking in apps, but the OVI suite itself is well-designed and pretty easy to use. Transferring contacts, music, and photos is a breeze.
Again, while this phone has a resistive touchscreen, I just can't help but notice how well it is programmed. It's not too sensitive to be pressed accidentally but you only have to press down with a little pressure to press a button. When scrolling through songs in the music player, I found almost as easy as with the iPod's interface. Speaking of which, there is also a custom equalizer with much more settings than the average portable music player's.
I do have mores gripe about the S60 OS, however. To change profiles I always have to go to Menu -> Settings -> Personal -> Profiles, and then change my profile. This does become tedious after awhile, and one does wonder why Nokia didn't make it accessible from the home screen to begin with as many other manufacturers have. Sadly, the on-screen keyboard is simply too small, and with thick fingers like mine I can't really see what I'm typing sometimes, which makes it hard to use the Swype function.
One suggestion I have for potential buyers of this phone is to get a microSD card of at least 8GB and make sure that all downloaded apps are installed onto that instead of the phone memory. Even then, when I only have the Opera browser open the phone still runs out of memory.
My verdict is that this phone would be fine for those who usually text, talk, and listen to music a lot, but are also interested in accessing the internet from an ultraportable device. I am also raising my rating of this phone from 2 stars to 3 stars, as I've realized that my previous verdict was partly due to my unfamiliarity with the S60 OS, which has proven itself to be quite easy to use with a few exceptions.Lamentablemente espere mucho por el envio a mi pais, para darme cuenta que el telefono que me vendieron no es el que ofrecieron, no tiene camara de 5 Mp sino de 2 Mp, no tiene WIFI, no acceso modificar o ver documentos de Office, no se conecta a Ovi Nokia Suite o a pc Siute, muestra la pantalla como si estuviese desbloqueado y realmente si lo esta atrasando las llamadas entrantes, si realmete hay una posibilidad de cambiar este equipo y me hagan una devolucion por favor devuelvamen mi dinero o me cambien el producto por otro que sea reamente lo que ofrezcan
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