Nokia C7-00 review: A stainless-steel Symbian phone with NFC and 8 GB of internal storage.
An NFC pioneer on Symbian.
Nokia C7-00 was one of the very first phones with an NFC chip — years before NFC payments became mainstream — wrapped in a stainless-steel body with an AMOLED screen. A nice glimpse of where mobile was going, on a platform that was already on the way out.
01Display
60/10060/100 puts it above the 57-point average for mid-range phones of 2010.
02Camera
56/10056/100 puts it above the 51-point average for mid-range phones of 2010.
03Performance
42/10042/100 trails the 45-point cohort average for mid-range phones of 2010.
04Battery
56/10056/100 puts it above the 54-point average for mid-range phones of 2010.
05Build
68/10068/100 — right at the average for mid-range phones of 2010.
06Value
56/10056/100 — right at the average for mid-range phones of 2010.
- NFC chip — early adopter for 2010.
- Stainless-steel premium build.
- 8 GB internal storage + microSD.
- AMOLED ClearBlack screen.
- EDoF (no autofocus) camera.
- Symbian was already losing.
- 680 MHz single-core.
- nHD resolution.
How this review is built: every section score, spec row and comparison on this page comes from SpecEagle's tracked catalogue — scores weight measured specs against the 4-phone cohort of mid-range devices released around the same time. We don't publish invented lab anecdotes. Spot an error? .