In a nutshell: The C2-02 is a touch-and-type phone with a slide out keypad and a touchscreen. Combining the best of both worlds is a good concept, but the implementation is poor, with a small resistive screen making the user interface hard work. There are some good features, such as facebook & twitter apps, Nokia Maps, a music player and FM radio. But the phone is dual band only, so accessing the internet is very slow. The camera is poor, there's no GPS and the onboard memory is pitiful.

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The Nokia C2-02 is a touch-and-type style phone with a slideout keypad. It looks like an old-style slide mobile, circa 2005, but the screen is touch sensitive. This could be a good solution for anyone looking for a compact phone with a traditional alphanumeric keypad, who doesn't mind a bit of touchscreen now and then but doesn't want to go the whole hog. Nokia's candy-bar shaped touch-and-type phones, the Nokia C3-01 and Nokia X3-02, have proved quite popular, so it seems logical to extend the range to include a slide.

The problem with the touchscreen is twofold, however. First the screen is small - about one third the size of the high-end Android phones - so you'll find there's not much room to poke your finger around. And secondly it's an old-fashioned resistive touchscreen, so you'll be doing a lot of poking to make it respond the way you want. It might all seem like too much trouble, unless you're very patient.

In addition to the touchscreen, Nokia have made some attempts to bring the phone into the twenty-first century. There's an app for facebook and twitter for example. It does the basics, allowing you to keep in contact with your friends on the go. But with no 3G or WiFi to deliver data to your phone, you might find that the party's over before you even get to hear about it. Nokia Maps are installed too, so you can find your way around. There's no GPS to tell you where you are, but the phone does use phone network information to try to fix your position. To about the nearest kilometre, anyway. So if you wake one morning in a strange town with no recollection of how you got there, the C2-02 may prove a life saver.

In other ways, the C2-02 is very much still in the dark ages. We mentioned that there's no 3G or Wi-Fi. Well, there's no quadband or even triband either. This is in fact almost the only phone still available with just dual band capability. The camera is lousy - 2 megapixels, with no flash, no focus, and barely usable video recording. Memory is appalling with only 10MB of built-in memory, although a 2GB memory card is included in the sales package.

To end on a positive note, we'll mention that the phone comes with a (basic) MP3 player and an FM radio. Battery life is better than average, although that's because the phone does so little. And there are 6 touch-control games included.

The C2-02 could have been an interesting and decent phone, but with so many corners cut, it's hard to come away liking it. If you like the touch-and-type concept, choose the Nokia X3-02 instead. Or if you want a proper touchscreen smartphone, take a look at the HTC Wildfire or Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, which cost the same and do so much more.

Features of the Nokia C2-02 include:

2 megapixel camera with 4x digital zoom
Video recording at 176 x 144 (QCIF) resolution and up to 15 fps, 4x digital video zoom
Display: 65,000 colours, 240 x 320 pixels (2.6 inches) resistive touchscreen
Music player (MP3, AAC formats)
FM radio
Ringtones: MP3 ringtones, 32-voice polyphonic ringtones, vibration alert
Messaging: SMS, MMS, email, Instant Messaging
Touch-based games: Golf Tour, Solitaire, Memorise, Nature Park, Picture Puzzle, Music Guess
Internet: Web browser, Facebook, Twitter
Nokia Maps, with network-based location information
Connectivity: Bluetooth 2.1, USB, 3.5 mm audio jack
Memory: 10MB plus 2GB microSD memory card (up to 32GB supported)
Flight mode
Dual band, GPRS, EDGE
Size: 103 x 51 x 17 mm
Weight: 115g
Battery: 1020 mAh
Talktime: up to 5 hours
Battery standby: 600 hours

Nokia C2-02 Consumer Reviews

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Average rating from 11 reviews:

Reviewed by Katy Smith from England on 30th Jan 2012
I like the phone but am afraid the backlit screen drives me mad, it is only on a second or two then goes off and there is nowhere to alter it
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Reviewed by Cm Paudel from Nepal on 25th Jan 2012
I have got /gifted a Nokia C2-02, But its screen touch is not working a few days. How to solution this problem.
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Reviewed by Jane Graham from England on 23rd Jan 2012
I love this phone. You can still do predictive text instead of taking an hour to write one on a qwerty. Plus you have the best of both worlds as it is touch screen for everything else.
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Reviewed by N ula from Uk on 17th Jan 2012
This phone is AWFULL AVOID the touch screen is very unresponsive take several attempts to open anything once it stops scrolling to the bottom of the screen and once your in to an app it won't do anything took it back after a week !!!!
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Reviewed by Chris S from UK on 17th Jan 2012
This phone is fine if you're after something which is a step up from a cheap-and-cheerful phone - it has everything I want and the combination of type and touch is great to my mind. It's neat, reasonably compact and I've had no problems with it at all. I guess those who dislike it (below) are comparing it with much higher grade phones. The camera is fine, the mp3 player has pretty good sound on it's small speaker. Can't speak about the internet access as I'm rarely using that.
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Reviewed by AndrewB from Scotland on 29th Dec 2011
Bought this phone for my Mum, Christmas 2011, £40 from phones4u as an O2 upgrade. It is a brilliant wee phone and is great fun. The camera seems fine to me, the touchscreen is a little slow in some functions but you get a vibrate so know just to wait for the function to respond. For this money don't compare it to a smartphone. It's a phone with a camera, mp3 player, radio, it looks sexy, it works fine, it's compact,light, easy to use and cheap. If you want a poser-phone get another £100-£200 out of your pocket. Not giving it 5 stars as only just got it but 5 star so far in use.
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Reviewed by Arabella Horton-Carnegie from Chatham on 22nd Nov 2011
I simply love this phone, everything just works, simple to set up, calls are clear, good internet experience, looks prettier than some of the overly expensive phones available
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Reviewed by billy bob england from england on 5th Nov 2011
this is the second c2 02 ive had whith the same typ of falt the first one whent falty as soon as i got home the second 4 weeks later this is the worst nokie ive had they want 2 sort them selfs out at nokie
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Reviewed by Dean from Lisaland on 2nd Nov 2011
Nokia must be wanting to dig there own grave by coming out with such poorly specified products like this, for the same money I just got a used 5800 nokia in mint condition.
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Reviewed by Tetters from Uk on 30th Oct 2011
Just about to take my 2nd c2-02 back in a week. Both have the same problem. Within hours of using the screen occasionally flickers into black n white stripes for a split second which I could probably live with but the touchscreen on the left hand side fails to select the option even though u can feel it responding through the handset. I'm guessing maybe there's a fault to have this happen on both phones. Apart from that, very basic and a 2mp camera is just not good as the pictures r quite grainy. Love the idea of a touch and slide though. Size and weight r good too.
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Reviewed by Jellybean from UK on 27th Sep 2011
There are some basic things wrong here. For a start the lack of a navi key is wierd, for a regular nokia user that is. Maybe it wouldn't work with the touch n type thing but still. And when a call is coming in, there is no option to 'silence' the call. It is answer the call or dump it, no tactful way around it. The touchscreen is slow to respond so you end up trying again and sometimes selecting the wrong option because the screen took its time bringing up your choice. Why the camera is only 2 mega pixel is another mystery. Still it's a small phone, which is a blessing in these days of nouveau bricks which need a handbag to cart them around in.
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