Nokia 500 Featured With Symbian Anna

Nokia has just announced the 500, their first 1 GHz smartphone. It’s going to run the latest version of Symbian, known as Anna, have a 3.2 inch screen with a resolution of 640 x 360, 5 megapixel camera, quadband GSM/EDGE support, and pentaband (850/900/1700/1900/2100 MHz) 14.4 Mbps 3G support, meaning it’ll effectively have high speed internet access regardless of where you are on the planet and which operator you’re using. WiFi b/g is also in there, along with Bluetooth 2.1+EDR, and even GPS, which is amazing considering that this thing will cost just 150 EUR ($215) when it ships towards the end of Q3 of this year. They’ll be 2 color options, black and white, and regardless of which one you choose there are going to be 2 additional backplates shipped with each Nokia 500 so you can pick whatever color configuration you want!

Nokia 500 Full Specs:

Development Frameworks

Qt^[1]
Web Runtime
Java
Symbian C++
Flash
python
Open C/C++

Screen Resolution

360 x 640 px

Screen Color Depth

24 bit

Screen Size

3.2 in

Display Technology

TFT

Device Size

111.3 x 53.8 x 14.1 mm

Volume

73 cc

Weight

93 g

Display Touch Technology

Capacitive Touch

Input Method

Touch Screen

Other Keys

Call Creation Key
Call Termination Key^[2]
Lock Switch
Menu Key
Volume Keys

Frequency Bands

GSM 1800
GSM 1900
GSM 850
GSM 900
WCDMA Band I (2100)
WCDMA Band II (1900)
WCDMA Band IV (1700/2100)
WCDMA Band V (850)
WCDMA Band VIII (900)

Data Bearers

Dual Transfer Mode
EDGE Class B
EGPRS
HSDPA Cat10 14.4 Mbps
HSUPA Cat6 5.76 Mbps
WCDMA
WLAN IEEE 802.11 b/g

Regional Availability

Global

CPU Count

Single CPU

CPU Type

ARM 11

CPU Clock Rate

1000 MHz

Consumer Link

Device Home Page

Developer Page Link

Developer Home Page

Remote Device Access Service

Link to the Service

Notes

1 Qt content can be published to Ovi Store.
² Combined call termination and power key

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