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I'm Jessica's all-court from Cena this is the Nokia Asha 5:03 this is a global phone nokia calls it a smart phone I'm not so sure I'd say it's more like a very well appointed feature phone let me draw your attention to the color here this one is bright yellow also comes in a lot of other bright colors like orange blue green also white and black another thing you're going to notice about the phone and its really cool look is that it has sort of an unusual kind of trapped in Ice Cube sort of aesthetic going on if you kind of look at it from above and tilt it from the side the color Peaks out that you can sort of see this plastic casing over it I think that's really neat and that frankly is the best part of the phone it's also small that means that it is compact and portable you can stick it in a pocket really easily unfortunately the screen is really small and there's all this black bezel going on the screen is three inches and the display resolution is actually very low it's QVGA this makes a big difference even though the icons are small they look a little bit jagged around the edges text - and images don't look very good at all there's also a browser on here that will compress images to low quality so if you don't change that you're really gonna tell us see a lot of grainy pictures when you're surfing the web you can't change it to a higher resolution but that is gonna mean it's gonna take longer to load ask for photos you take yourself there's a five megapixel camera on the back with flash that could be good some Nokia 5 megapixel cameras are at this one is not that is because it is fixed focused so you're gonna have a really hard time determining if it's in focus on your own you won't be able to take a lot of motion pictures or pictures of squirming kids and dogs there is a VGA video recorder that takes some pretty poor video I wouldn't recommend using it to share with a lot of other people so why even consider this phone at all well because it is $99 that's gonna be pretty good for people who are interested in a budget device especially one that does have things like email on here a lot of social networking apps a lot of different games voice recorder FM radio so there are certainly amenities you can also import your social networking contacts into the address book so there are provisions for you this phone does not support LTE but it does support 3G 0.5 a little bit of a faster 3G connection the Asha 503 is not going to be available in the u.s. at all instead it is available in select markets globally Nokia also has some other phones in the Asha line including the 500 and the 502 the 503 that I've got here is the priciest of the bunch but it is also the best appointed I'm Jessica Dahl court for CNET you can check out my full review of the Asha 5:03 Etsy Netcom