Nokia 500 With Symbian Anna And 1GHz CPU Pics, Release Date And Price Becomes Official
Although Nokia is on the brink of epic failure, the company is releasing Symbian smartphones like crazy. Sales have dropped dramatically and Nokia is going to lose the first place on the smartphonemarket share by the end of the year as the second quarter of 2011 saw the company on the third place with 16 million phones sold, while Samsung and Apple sold 19 million, respectively 20 million. Well, here is the new Nokia 500, a middle-entry smartphone that will become available for purchase in late Q3 2011.
The Nokia 500 is running on a 1GHz CPU, the first Symbian smartphone to be powered by such processor. Nokia’s 500 is running on Symbian Anna and it features a 3.2-inch multitouch display with 640 x 360 resolution, 5-megapixel camera with EDoF and no flash, GPS, Bluetooth, WiFi, HSDPA, support for a microSD card, and built-in Nokia Maps like most Nokia smartphones.
Sadly, the Nokia 500 doesn’t feature a flash for its camera, nor a camera in the front to video chat with your Skype friends. Apparently, this is another music-focused device as the Finnish-based company is praising the battery of the smartphone which can provide up to 35 hours of continuous music playback.
The Symbian Anna-powered smartphone will be released by the end of September in Black or White, however, consumers will be able to purchase several covers for the Nokia 500 like Blue, Red, Pink, Orange, Purple, Silver, and Azure.
This 1GHz phone will be priced at only €150, but why would you spend this amount on a device that is full of bugs, with an ugly UI, that freezes all the time, that begins loading apps in June and ends loading them in August, and that doesn’t provide any fun whatsoever.
You can check a full Nokia 500 pics gallery below along with a couple of videos in order to show off some features of the smartphone. Personally, I’d stay away from the Nokia 500 and buy a low-budget Android smartphone.
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