Despite the clock ticking on Symbian however, Nokia seems determined to keep producing Symbian-powered smartphones, such as the newly-launched Nokia 500.
The Nokia 500 will feature a 3.2-inch capacitive touch display (with a resolution of 640 x 360 pixels), a 5-megapixel camera, and a 1GHz processor. Nokia claims the smartphone will offer some five to seven hours worth of talk time, 450-plus hours in standby mode, and around 35 hours worth of music playback.
Complementing that hardware is the Symbian Anna OS, whose revamped user-interface includes split-screen messaging, baked-in social networking, and what Nokia claims is a “better” browser.
Symbian isn’t the only homegrown operating system Nokia is loading onto new devices.
In June, the company introduced the Nokia N9, which runs a MeeGo operating system also slated for mothballing alongside Symbian. With a curved 3.9-inch AMOLED (active-matrix organic LED) screen and a body engineered from a single piece of polycarbonate, the smartphone is something of a proof-of-concept that Nokia can produce a higher-end, handsome device – as well as a possible indicator of the company’s thinking when it comes to Windows Phone.
“Innovation is the heart of our strategy, and today we took important steps to demonstrate a new pace of innovation at Nokia,” Nokia CEO Stephen Elop wrote in a 20 June statement tied to the N9’s unveiling. “It’s the beginning of a new era for Nokia.”
Soon after the introduction of the N9, Elop offered an audience a glimpse of what looked like one of the new devices running Windows Phone. The question is whether the Nokia 500 will follow suit as a possible form-factor for Nokia’s Microsoft-powered phones.
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