The mobile phone is pleasantly flat, almost delicate. The sliding mechanism is smooth and also in the pushed state nothing wobbles. Processing Technically So full marks for the phone. However, a deduction of points that you have somehow no ordinary attack point to postpone the phone with one hand. Here you will be tempted to use the rocker switch as a handle point - and since the key lock is not necessarily activated (for that I say at once something), you can order in advance trigger unintended functions. That was even better with a small plastic bridge my age-old Samsung. But yes, long ists her ...
The "Desktop" (yes, it is possible to what is a present to the two inches, almost call) kills one at first sight with additional functions - Facebook, Nokia Ovi Store links, favorite contacts, speed dial - all so full that one wonders whether the phone will be phone or smartphone now. Since you then use the directional pad also need Navigating Around cumbersome by this Mäusekino and you thus partly takes longer for the "Speed Dial", as if you just look for the appropriate name from the address book, opens up to me the meaning of the "features" not really , Well, at least you can turn it off and then obtains the default image, only time, date and, if necessary, indicating missed calls and received text messages (from a phone that is not a smartphone, I expect actually no longer). Negative strikes me here is that the phone does not actively making noticeable when calls should be received in the absence. It shows standby Nothing about it blinks nothing, it lightens nothing, one sees no time - nothing at all. The 3109c has made it even better (albeit annoying - but at least one has it not "overlooked").
Another drawback is the battery life. Well, I have read in the reviews that is for some "okay". These people appear through smartphones that are almost daily added to the power socket to be already hardened slightly. I for one feel a normal phone that's just not smart phone, a battery life that is pure in standby (ie not really big calls) of less than one week as impractical and pathetic. Short Note: The 3109c held 2-3 weeks - and even my great-Samsung held, despite explicit reference to the "low battery" (former statement in all test magazines) and about a week without power through.
Another point of criticism - as already mentioned above: The key lock. The fact is no matter in which position the phone is just. It locks either by manually pressing "Lock Keys" or after a set period. The keypad is unlocked then by pushing or pressing the Menu button. Anyone who takes it, a simple sliding action (as you would expect from any slider) could also activate the key lock, you are wrong - the phone stays active. Nothing is so with hang up and return to the phone in the jacket pocket - there typing diligently in all kinds of keystrokes that happen accidentally unlocked due to the crude settings "Pressing the menu button goes" under certain circumstances even himself and does everything, Just not what you would expect from a phone. At least here you feel transported back to the mobile phone technical stone age.
Finally, the voice quality - which is fine, although the loudspeaker in handsfree mode might be more of a Quiet Speaker well - even at the highest volume level he is drowned out loosely from other phones in the medium volume setting.
I use the C2-05 further because I do not really have a choice. Private purchase only - no, I would never. And anyone who thinks about it because he finds Slider phones without touch screen beautiful, I recommend here urgently to move on and to look at the competition. Apparently Nokia has lost the connection to the market not only in smartphones.
