Luxury Symbian^3 Phone: Nokia ORO – C7 Coated with Gold, Leather and Sapphire


Are you biggest fan of Nokia? If you are, you should know about the Nokia ORO. This is a Symbian^3 Smartphone coated with Gold, Sapphire and Leather by Nokia. If you look at its specs, you’ll finding that it isn’t that new anyway. It is because ORO is the redesign of C7. The new design is located on the gold metal color and the layers of skin on its battery cover. The rest you can still see a release of C7 in October 2010 ago with the core specs are as follows:

Phone Specs:

OS: Symbian^3 OS
Processor: 680 MHz ARM 11 processor, Broadcom BCM2727 GPU
Main Camera: 8 MP, 3264×2448 pixels, fixed focus, dual-LED flash, video 720p@25fps
Front camera: VGA
Battery: Li-Ion 1200 mAh (BL-5K)

ORO, in Italian language means gold, it has frame and keys which covered by 18K metal. Apart from gold plated, keys that in the front are also made ​​of expensive materials in the form of scratch-resistant sapphire crystal rock. For the screen, Nokia coating it with Gorilla glass for protection against scratches. In the back or the battery cover is coated with high quality leather. Materials were the same as those used to luxury car interiors.

Price of Nokia ORO will be around $1,635. Quite reasonable for additional accessories in the form of a layer of gold and rock crystal sapphire and also of the high quality leather. Besides that, thought it is worthy to buy both of them if you are interested in both: ORO or the original C7, because on both, Nokia will provide an upgrade to Symbian Anna.