The Nokia 500 is a brand new phone from Nokia that was announced last August 2011 and is set for release this third quarter of the year. The Nokia 500 supports both 2G and 3G networks. This fast and colourful handset has a sleek design (111.3 x 53.8 x 14.1mm / 93g) with smooth Touch screen. It has 3.2 inches TFT capacitive touch screen with 360×640 resolution of 16Million colors and it has 2 nice features: Accelerometer for Auto rotate feature and Proximity auto turn off.
Inside, the Nokia 500 has an awesome 2Gb internal memory with card slot for microSD expandable up to 32Gb. There is unlimited space for contact entries. You can keep the call records up to 30 days.
At the back, the Nokia 500 sports a 5 megapixels camera with Geo-tagging feature and can capture videos in VGA mode at the speed of 15fps. The downside though is that it has no secondary camera for videocall, which is essential for most 3G phones.
Just like the Nokia X7, this smartphone is one of the front-runners of the all-new Symbian Anna. It is also equipped with powerful Single core, ARM 11, 1GHz processor and has almost every necessary connectivity features available for smartphones like GPRS (Class 33), EDGE (Class 33), 3G(HSUPA, 5.76 Mbps | HSDPA, 14.4 Mbps). WLAN (Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g), Bluetooth (v2.1 with A2DP) and USB( v2.0 microUSB).
It has Li-Ion 1110 mAh (BL-4U) standard battery. The battery has a back up power up to 500 hrs (2G) / Up to 455 hrs (3G), while on stand by mode. It has up to 7 hrs (2G) / up to 5 hrs (3G) in talk time mode and up to 35 hrs in music play time.
Nokia 500 supports 2 kinds of alert types: vibration and MP3 ring tones. It is equipped with loud speaker feature and 3.5mm jack for headset or bluetooth and even with a speakers for loud and quality sound.
Nokia 500 also has some added features like FM radio, Java MIDP 2.1, Digital Compass, MP4/H.263/H.264 player, MP3/WAV/еAAC+/WMA player, Flash Lite 4.0 and many more.
