Nokia 500

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Main function

Support 3-band GSM / GPRS / EDGE, 3G HSDPA 14.4 Mbps and HSUPA 5.76 Mbps.

Capacitive touch screen 3.2 inch TFT 16M colors with 640 x 360 resolution.

5 MP camera supports VGA 15 fps recording, geographical information.

Symbian Anna.

ARM 11 1GHz CPU and 256 MB RAM.

Wi-Fi 802.11 b / g and Stereo Bluetooth 2.1, stereo FM Radio with RDS.

Support A-GPS and voice directions for free.

Electronic compass, microSD card slot, microUSB port, 3.5mm audio jack.

DivX and XviD video support, accelerometer sensor and proximity.

The browser supports Flash and Java, social networking integration.

Support command and voice dialing.

Replace the back cover.

Weak point

Symbian Anna is still inferior compared to Android and iOS.

The camera has no flash, does not support auto focus, image quality is poor, poor film quality.

Limit 3rd party applications, no software to view documents, applications watching movies less, or browsers are defective.

Design

Nokia 500 has 111.3 x 53.8 x size of 14.4 mm and a height screen similar to the Nokia 700, but have a little louder. Crust then color may change makes the Nokia 500 more attractive to young people, but beyond that point, the design of the Nokia 500 is not anything special, simply one phone touch bar normal .

Curved design on the back makes the machine very easy to handle, but the plastic shell behind us feeling unstable. Front panel is capacitive touch screen 3.2-inch nHD (360 x 640) for image quality very well, of course, can not be the screen with ClearBlack. 1 point except the front glass screen very handprints.

Below the screen are two keys Call, Menu key in the middle and just above it is mircophone. Above the screen is the speaker and proximity sensor and light display helps the machine off while on a call.

Nokia 500 is the key to the right instead of the slider locking commonly found on Symbian devices and Volume keys directly above. To the top of the camera is the microUSB port, 2mm charging port and 3.5mm headphone jack. All 3 ports are not protected, but does not affect the operation.

Behind the machine is 5 MP camera, speakerphone and Nokia logo. Unfortunately, the machine is no flash and no key snapshot. Machine with 1110 mAh Li-Ion battery enough for 500 hours of standby time of 455 hours with 2G and 3G. Talk time 7 hours 2G and 5 hours of 3G. Underneath the battery is the SIM slot and microSD card.

Entertainment

From Symbian ^ 3 Nokia introduced interface and play your music by album cover Nokia 500 in this interface. Music Store are automatically sorted by artist, album, and you can create playlists right on your computer if you wish.

But the machine’s video player is very disappointing. It supports DivX, XviD and MP4 but can not see large files or 720p. The only limit is WVGA, even 1 videos Xvid 300 MB do not show up well on the Nokia 500. It also does not support subtitles.

In return, the machine FM program works very fine with a simple interface easy to use. The sound quality is also very stable machine, even better than the Nokia 701.

Camera

Nokia 500 with 5 MP camera but the lack of features autofocus and flash makes the machine much inferior compared to other phones. You can zoom in, zoom out, or basic photo editing directly on the machine. It also supports a location to your photos and face recognition.

Although the picture looks great on the computer screen nHD but when given the larger screen, the image quality of the Nokia 500 is quite bad. Normal color, detail and noise also shortage is so great that a disappointing picture. Especially due to lack of autofocus feature so you can not take anything less than 50 cm.

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Connect

It supports a full range of connections: 3-band GPRS, EDGE, 3G, HSPA … speed of the machine is quite good 3G with 14.4 Mbps download and 5.76 Mbps upload. Machine connected to a computer via microUSB 2.0, but only by charging rechargeable. In addition the machine also supports Bluetooth 2.1, Wi-Fi b / g with a microSD memory card slot and 3.5mm audio jack.

Browser

Until now, the browser is always one of the weaknesses Symbian touch phones, however Symbian Anna significantly improved. Nokia 500 browser page loading mechanism quite well with one of the features, such as font selection, auto-fill and password management. But sometimes the very slow zoom and page load faster is not much, cause users frustration.

Browser supports Flash Lite 4.0, you can watch YouTube videos 360p but the quality is not very stable.

Other applications

Symbian is available one of the basic applications and Nokia 500 with Symbian Anna is no exception. The Calendar app has 4 views: monthly, weekly, daily and to-do lists, making it easy to manage. The computer application also works quite well with the basic calculations. There are also a dictionary app, recordings, notes, alarms and manage ZIP files.

Social Network

Nokia 500 supports two most popular social networks as Facebook and Twitter. You can have multiple accounts, only one account at one time operation. The interface of the application is quite simple and you can easily update the status or attach photos, videos to Facebook and Twitter.

Ovi Store

Symbian is still one of the major smartphone operating systems in the world, but the machine’s application store App Store and iOS compared to Android Market is still very much inferior. Ovi Store interface is very easy to use, but the number of applications is not much. Also Ovi Maps application also supports voice directions for free.

Epilogue

Nokia 500 with Symbian Anna has many new features, but the machine does not cause much impressed by the delay difficult to accept in the first 1 GHz CPU smartphones and high prices. With prices that we have many good choices much like Sony Ericsson Xperia mini Android or X10. Even Nokia C6-01 also with Symbian Anna at the same price and even more impressive Nokia 500.