Lots and lots of cool social applications, free navigational maps for lifetime, powerful 3rd edition Symbian OS and much more excellent features highlight the smartness of the new Nokia C5 smartphone. When you take your first look at the mobile phone, you wouldn’t notice that it is a smartphone. But nevertheless, it is a smartphone, comparable to any other smartphone of its kind. One of the most powerful Nokia C5 features is that this will be the first smartphone priced really low.

There are plenty of Nokia C5 features which are sure to surprise many people. The Nokia C5 is packed with lots of social applications like Facebook, Friendster, YouTube, MySpace etc. In this new age of social connectivity, this feature is definitely helpful. But this is not all. The Nokia C5 shows real-time updated Facebook status messages of your friends and contacts on the address book or contacts page itself. Talk about staying connected the new way!

Even though built as a 2.2 inch TFT screen offering 16 million colors, the display and interface are highly user-friendly and customizable. Themes, backgrounds, profiles, screensavers, ringtones, video ringtones and almost everything else can be personalized according to your taste. An added advantage is that you can store plenty of files thanks to the 16 GB microSD card support. The Nokia C5 features an excellent audio and video playback that can support lots of formats. So, you can use the smartphone as a media device too.

The 3.2 megapixel camera is a really attractive feature. With sensible focus, plenty of capture features, in-built video editing added to the 4x zoom and secondary camera for making video calls, the smartphone only becomes more attractive and desirable.

The most talked-about feature of this smartphone, however, is the Ovi Maps. The walk and drive navigation support through GPS from Ovi Maps is offered for free for lifetime. This is totally unexpected and will surely get rave reviews. On similar lines, the smartphone offers excellent 3G connectivity, in addition to the USB, Bluetooth and GPRS features. The smartphone is powerfully supported by an excellent battery lasting for 630 hours on standby and 12 hours on GSM talk-time.

The SIM-free Nokia C5 price has been rumored to be around £125 but there is no official word on it yet. The Nokia C5 release date has not yet been fixed or announced, but it is sure to come out this June. Be sure to take a look at Nokia C5 review to get to know more about the coolest gadget from Nokia.