With a more curved, pebble-esque look than the Nokia N8, the Nokia C7 also looks more like a phone, with its call and end buttons sitting pretty underneath the screen. Taking into account its curved, chrome edges and super glossy fascia, one would be forgiven for thinking that the Nokia C7’s design is aimed at a female market with a penchant for the shiny things in life.

Speaking of shiny things, now onto the screen. As with the Nokia N8, there’s a 3.5-inch AMOLED display on the Nokia C7. Colours are punchy and vibrant enabling the fascia to transform from a reflective mirror into a bright, beautiful display with the press of an unlock button. Brightness is set to auto by default, meaning it will adapt to your surroundings. While the brightness levels are okay when auto is active, we often found ourselves overriding auto brightness and just whacking it up to full. We wish there was a brightness widget on the homescreen as found on Android’s power controls. On full brightness, the Nokia C7 is viewable in almost every situation with decent angles of view, which is impressive given the extreme reflectiveness of the screen.

Being a Nokia Phone, I doubt that there would be any complaints about call quality and I was right. The call quality was good as in all the other nokia phones. I had no problems in hearing and I was able to make calls even in areas of low signal strength. Further, this phone supports active noise cancellation in which device detects the surrounding noise, which is then actively cancelled from the signal of the main microphone to which you speak. This results in a significantly improved transmission of speech in a noisy surrounding. The active noise cancellation is produced with the two microphones.

In my typical usage day which includes 1hour of calls, light browsing over Wifi or EGDE and some music. I was able to get about 2days without charging. What surprised me was the fact that,This phone managed to give me more battery life than my Nokia 5800 which has BL-5J 1320mAh vs BL-5k 1200mAh present on C7. Further, there is a power saving mode present which increases battery life a bit more. this should be sufficient proof that nokia has done lot of work on power management side and has make sure battery juice lasts longer.

SPECIFICATIONS

• 3.5 AMOLED display @ 640×360 pixels
• Symbian^3 OS
• 350MB internal memory
• 8GB mass storage, up to 32GB via microSD
• 680MHz CPU
• 256MB RAM
• 8MP fixed-focus camera with dual LED flash
• 720p HD video recording @ 25fps
• WiFi 802.11 b/g/n
• HSDPA 10.2MBps, HSUPA 2.0Mbps
• Bluetooth 3.0
• FM Radio Tuner
• FM Transmitter
• 1200mAH battery