Nokia has unveiled the latest update to its soon-to-be-killed Symbian OS, along with three new devices that are going to run it. The successor to Symbian Anna will be called Symbian Belle, bringing a whole set of new features for the platform Nokia is surprisingly still pushing. The three debuting phones running it consist of the Nokia 700, the Nokia 701 and the Nokia 600.
What does the new Symbian flavor bring to the table? The most notable new features include NFC sharing and pairing, three additional home screens (for a total of six), a dynamic lock screen, live widgets in five different sizes, and an Android-style pull-down taskbar/notification menu.
Nokia 600. Billed as the company's "loudest smartphone," it's a music-centric handset that packs both a built-in FM antenna (you can listen to FM radio without headphones) and an FM transmitter (for streaming music from the phone to FM radios). It can also stream music via both NFC and Bluetooth. Details include a 3.2-inch capacitive touchscreen (640 x 360 resolution), a 5.0 megapixel camera module (with LED flash and 720p recording), a 1GHz CPU, 2GB of internal storage and microSD card expansion. Unsubsidized, the phone should go for around $260.
Nokia 700. Rumored earlier as the "Zeta," it's a compact slab that Nokia claims is their smallest smartphone at only 110 x 50.7 x 9.7 mm. Details include a a 3.2-inch AMOLED "ClearBlack" display with Gorilla Glass, a 5.0 megapixel camera module, penta-band 3G, WiFi, NFC, a 1GHz CPU and a battery rated at 7.3 hours of talk time. Unsubsidized pricing (before taxes) is around $390.
Nokia 701. Nokia bills this one as packing " the world's brightest ever mobile phone display." Details include a 3.5-inch IPS LCD (with ClearBlack and Gorilla Glass), an 8.0 megapixel camera module, a front-facing webcam, 1GHz CPU, pentaband 3G radio, NFC, WiFi, 8GB of onboard storage and microSD card expansion. Unsubsidized pricing is expected at around $420.
All three handsets should arrive any day between now and the end of September.
[Nokia]
