Nokia 500 Touch Phone – Symbian Anna OS, Price Rs. 10699 in India

Nokia 500 is a touch-screen phone running Symbian Anna Operating System and is powered by a 1GHz processor. It sports 3.2″ capacitive nHD touchscreen with a screen resolution of 640*360 pixels alongwith a 5.0 Mega pixel camera and 2GB of internal memory plus microSD expansion. It is available at a price Rs. 10699 in India.

It is a 3G enabled device that offers HSDPA 14.4 Mbps speeds and is equipped with Bluetooth 2.1, GPS, Wi-Fi b/g, High-Speed USB 2.0 microUSB connector and charging.

Although there are two basic colours for the Nokia 500 (black – in Q3, and white – in Q4), it has a removable battery cover, which means a number of colour options are available: black, orange, khaki, purple, coral red, azure blue, green, pink and silver.

Nokia 500 is the first device to use Nokia’s new naming scheme. Future Nokia device names will have three numbers, with the first number serving as the index identifier (1-9, with increasing features / price point) and the second two numbers serving as a unique model identifier. Or put another way, the new scheme sees the removal of both the letter (C, E, X and N) and hyphen from the existing naming scheme.

This device in be available in the 3rd quarter of 2011.

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General

• Size: 111.3 x 53.8 x 14.1 MM
• Weight (with battery): 93 Grams
• Colour availability: Azure Blue, Black, Coral Red, Purple, Khaki, Orange[flipkart: mobd2hth7twhudn3]

Display and User Interface

• Screen size: 3.2″ 16M colors TFT Display
• Resolution: 16:9 nHD (640*360 Pixels)
• Capacitive touch screen
• Orientation sensor (accelerometer)
• Compass (Magnetometer)
• Proximity sensor
• Ambient light detector

Memory

• Internal memory: 2 GB
• Support for up to 32 GB with an external microSD memory card
• High-Speed MicroUSB to PC connectivity

Battery

• Type: BL-4U 1110 mAh Li-Ion
• Talk time: GSM upto 7 hours, WCDMA (3G) upto 5 hours
• Standby time: GSM upto 500 hours, WCDMA (3G) upto 455 hours
• Video playback time: 5 hours 15 minutes
• Video recording time (VGA,15 fps, maximum): 1.5 hours
• Music playback time: 35 hours

Keys and Inputs Methods

• Keys: call, end, home, slide lock, volume
• Finger touch control
• On-screen alphanumeric keypad and full keyboard
• Dedicated volume keys

Personalisation

• Three customisable home screens: menu, widgets, themes, shortcuts, apps
• Customisable profiles
• Ringtones: mp3, SpMidi, AAC+, eAAC+, WMA
• Themes: wallpapers, screensavers, pre-installed themes, changeable colour themes
• More wallpapers, ringtones and themes available from Store

Operating Frequency

• GSM/EDGE 850/900/1800/1900 MHz
• WCDMA 850/900/1700/1900/2100 MHz
• Automatic switching between WCDMA and GSM bands
• Flight mode

Data Network

• GPRS/EDGE release 6, class B, multislot class 33
• HSDPA Cat10 14.4 Mbps, HSUPA Cat6 5.76 Mbps
• WLAN IEEE802.11 b/g
• Capability to serve as data modem
• Support for MS Outlook synchronisation of contacts, calendar and notes

Connectivity

• Bluetooth 2.1 +EDR
• High-Speed USB 2.0 (micro USB connector)
• Micro USB connector and charging
• 2.0 MM charging connector
• Standard 3.5 MM AV connector

Software Platform and User Interface

• Symbian Anna
• Java MIDP 2.1
• Qt 4.7, Web Runtime 7.3
• HTML 4.1
• Software updates over the air (FOTA) and over the internet (FOTI)
• Flash Lite 4.0
• OMA DRM 2.1, Full OMA Client provisioning, OMA DRM 2
• Mac applications: iSync, Nokia Multimedia Transfer

Personal Information Management

• Detailed contact information
• Multiple calendars with meeting request support
• To-do list
• Notes
• Recorder
• Calculator
• Clock
• Support for MS Outlook synchronisation of contacts, calendar and notes

Applications

• Preloaded applications
• Music Player
• Radio
• Social client for social network feeds
• Nokia Maps
• Here and Now
• Browser
• Nokia Music Store
• Store
• Shazam Encore
• WebTV widgets
• PC applications
• Nokia Suite

E-Mail and Messaging

• Easy-to-use email client with attachment support for e.g. images, videos and music
• Full screen email viewer with HTML support
• Unified email client for multiple protocols: Yahoo!Mail, Gmail, Windows Live, Hotmail and other popular POP/IMAP services, and Mail for Exchange
• Push email and expanded portal support available through Nokia Messaging for email and instant messaging
• Email widget for home screen
• Unified MMS/SMS editor
• Conversational view for SMS

Call Management

• Contacts: advanced contacts database with support for multiple phone and email details per entry with personal thumbnail pictures and video clips
• Smart dialling to find phone numbers quickly
• Speed dialling, voice dialling (speaker independent) and voice command
• Logs of dialled, received and missed calls
• Conference calling
• Integrated handsfree speaker

Browsing and Internet

• Full web browsing of real web pages
• Web browsing with touch control
• Supported markup languages: HTML, XHTML MP, WML, CSS
• Supported protocols: HTTP v1.1, WAP
• TCP/IP support
• Visual history, HTML and JavaScript support
• Flash Lite 4.0 will support a majority of Flash Player 10.1 content
• Nokia Mobile Search
• RSS reader
• Support for streaming video
• Unified home screen access to Facebook and Twitter through Social client
• Social networking status updates visible in phone contacts
• Upload and view photos and video and see locations via Social client

GPS and Navigation

• Integrated GPS, A-GPS receivers
• Nokia Maps with free car and pedestrian navigation
• Wi-Fi and network positioning
• Compass and accelerometer for correct orientation of display and bearing

Camera

• 5.0 Megapixel camera
• Full Focus
• Fullscreen 16:9 viewfinder with easy-to-use touch screen parameters
• Still images file format: JPEG/EXIF
• Zoom up to 4x (digital)

Image Capture

• Automatic location tagging (geotagging) of images and videos
• Images automatically taken in the correct orientation
• Pinch zoom in Photos image viewer
• View photos by tag cloud, month, album, slide show
• Photo editor

Video

• Video capture in 640*480 (VGA), 640*352 (nHD), 176*144 (QCIF) at 15 fps
• Settings for scene: Video light, Colour tone, White balance, Exposure
• Zoom up to 2x (digital)

Video Codecs and Formats

• Recording codecs: MPEG4-es, H.263, H.264
• Playback codecs: MPEG4, H.263, H.264
• Streaming support: 3GPP and CIF

Video Sharing and Playback

• VGA video playback
• Support for download, streaming, and progressive download
• Video editing software
• Videos application: collection of stored videos
• On demand WebTV widgets to watch local and global internet streaming videos
• Support for Flash video
• YouTube browsing and streaming

Music Features

• Album art interface to browse the albums in your music collection
• Nokia Music Player, plus home screen widget
• Nokia Music
• Audio codecs: MP3, SpMidi, AAC, AAC+, eAAC+, WMA
• Bit rate up to 320 kbps
• DRM support WM DRM, OMA DRM 2.0
• Loudspeaker with 102 Phons

Radio

• Stereo FM radio (87.5-108 MHz/76-90 MHz)
• Home screen widgets for FM and internet radio

Gaming

• Use the touch interface to play games
• Games available for download at Store

Eco Profile

• Energy Efficiency: Power Save mode, ambient light sensor, unplug charger reminder, eco-friendly chargers (Nokia Fast Charger AC-8 or Nokia Fast Charger AC-15, depending on country)
• Eco Content and Services: Available at the Store, pre-installed eco wallpapers and ringtones, maps for route optimisation and pedestrian navigation
• Materials: Free of PVC, free of brominated and chlorinated compounds and free of antimony trioxide as defined in Nokia Substance List, bio-based materials in inner parts of the product
• Recycling: All materials of the device can be recovered as materials and energy
• Packaging: Made of up to 60% recycled material, 100% recyclable
• User Manual: Interactive user help in device and online, only Quick Guide in the box, eco tips on Green Page

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