Fast and colourful smartphone
Match your style with three changeable covers
Fast, connected and fun
Powerful processor and Wi-Fi
Now this is speed – the powerful 1 GHz processor makes sure your apps and entertainment are a pleasure to use. Apps run quickly and smoothly, and with a Wi-Fi or 3.5G internet connection, web pages load fast and downloads arrive in an instant. Scroll through photos effortlessly and browse your music collection with ease.Free covers
Personalise and make it your own
Express your individuality. Two additional premium covers with a vibrant matt finish are included in the box, so you can choose the right one to match your style. And because they are easy to switch, picking a cover to suit your mood is quick and hassle free. Plus you can choose wallpapers and themes for your home screens as well as add shortcuts for your favourite apps and friends.
Email and social networks
Live – on your home screen
Everything is ready straight out of the box with fully integrated email and social networks. For you this means real-time emails from your work and personal accounts direct to your home screen. You also get live Facebook and Twitter feeds 24/7 to keep you constantly up to date. Simply choose what’s right for you.Fully customisable home screens
What you want at your fingertips
This is where it all begins. From day one your three customisable home screens are live and always up to date – you decide what lives on them. One home screen for new emails and messages, one for your friends and social networks, and one for your favourite apps and games. It’s up to you. Adding shortcuts and widgets is fast and easy.The best apps
The latest and greatest apps
With Nokia 500 you get many great apps right away – apps that make life a bit better, a bit easier and a bit more fun. And one tap takes you straight to Store where you can download the latest apps and games, as well as browse ringtones, themes and wallpapers.Go to Store
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Four Square
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Fruit Ninja
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Sports Tracker
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Swype
Utilities
Free maps and navigation
Find new places. Share with friends.
Nokia Maps brings you the best of everything in your city, so you can instantly find nearby cafes, shops, concerts and much more. Discover and share great new places as you travel across town – plus you can check in to let people know where you are and meet up with friends who are close by. And best of all, you get free walk and drive navigation with turn-by-turn voice guidance.
Plan trips with Nokia Maps onlineSpecifications:
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- Model: Nokia 500 Azure Blue
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- Colour availability varies by country
Available Cover Colors
- Dimensions
- Size: 111.3 x 53.8 x 14.1 mm
- Weight (with battery): 93 g
- Volume: 73 cc
- Memory
- Internal memory: 2 GB
- Support for up to 32 GB with an external microSD memory card
- Battery Performance
- Talk time (maximum):
- GSM up to 7 h
- WCDMA (3G) up to 5 h
- Standby time (maximum):
- GSM up to 500 h
- WCDMA (3G) up to 455 h
- Video playback time (maximum): 5 h 15 min
- Video recording time (VGA,15 fps, maximum): 1.5 h
- Music playback time (maximum): 35 h
Design
- Display and User Interface
- Screen size: 3.2"
- Resolution: 16:9 nHD (640 x 360 pixels)
- TFT display
- 16 million colours
- Capacitive touch screen
- Orientation sensor (accelerometer)
- Compass (Magnetometer)
- Proximity sensor
- Ambient light detector
- Keys and Inputs Methods
- Keys: call, end, home, slide lock, volume
- Finger touch control
- On-screen alphanumeric keypad and full keyboard
- Dedicated volume keys
- Personalisation
- Three customisable home screens:
- menu
- widgets
- themes
- shortcuts
- apps
- Customisable profiles
- Ringtones: mp3, SpMidi, AAC+, eAAC+, WMA
- Themes
- wallpapers
- screensavers
- pre-installed themes
- changeable colour themes
- More wallpapers, ringtones and themes available from Store
Hardware
- Power Management
- BL-4U 1110 mAh Li-Ion battery
- Talk-time (maximum):
- GSM up to 7 h
- WCDMA (3G) up to 5 h
- Standby time (maximum):
- GSM up to 500 h
- WCDMA (3G) up to 455 h
- Video playback time (VGA,15 fps, maximum): 5 h 15 min
- Video recording time (VGA,15 fps, maximum): 1.5 h
- Music playback time (offline mode, wired headset, maximum): 35 h
- Operation times may vary depending on radio access technology used, operator network configuration and usage.
- Memory
- Internal memory: 2 GB
- MicroSD memory card slot, up to 32 GB
- Operating Frequency
- GSM/EDGE 850/900/1800/1900
- WCDMA 850/900/1700/1900/2100
- Automatic switching between WCDMA and GSM bands
- Flight mode
- Data Network
- GPRS/EDGE release 6, class B, multislot class 33
- HSDPA Cat10 14.4 Mbps, HSUPA Cat6 5.76 Mbps
- WLAN IEEE802.11 b/g
- Capability to serve as data modem
- Support for MS Outlook synchronisation of contacts, calendar and notes
- Requires data service. Data services may not be available in all networks. Data transmission speeds may be as high as HSDPA 14 Mbps, but may vary based upon network capabilities and other conditions. The establishment and continuation of a data connection depends on network availability, provider support and signal strength.
- Connectivity
- Bluetooth 2.1 +EDR
- High-Speed USB 2.0 (micro USB connector)
- Micro USB connector and charging
- 2 mm charging connector
- Standard 3.5 mm AV connector
Software and applications
- Software platform and user interface
- Symbian Anna
- Java MIDP 2.1
- Qt 4.7, Web Runtime 7.3
- HTML 4.1
- Software updates over the air (FOTA) and over the internet (FOTI)
- Flash Lite 4.0
- OMA DRM 2.1, Full OMA Client provisioning, OMA DRM 2
- Mac applications: iSync, Nokia Multimedia Transfer
- Personal Information Management (PIM)
- Detailed contact information
- Multiple calendars with meeting request support
- To-do list
- Notes
- Recorder
- Calculator
- Clock
- Support for MS Outlook synchronisation of contacts, calendar and notes
- Applications
- Preloaded applications
- Music Player
- Radio
- Social client for social network feeds
- Nokia Maps
- Here & Now
- Browser
- Nokia Music Store
- Store
- Shazam Encore
- WebTV widgets
- PC applications
- Nokia Suite
Communications
- Email and messaging
- Easy-to-use email client with attachment support for e.g. images, videos and music
- Full screen email viewer with HTML support
- Unified email client for multiple protocols: Yahoo!® Mail, Gmail™, Windows Live™, Hotmail and other popular POP/IMAP services, and Mail for Exchange
- Push email and expanded portal support available through Nokia Messaging for email and instant messaging
- Email widget for home screen
- Unified MMS/SMS editor
- Conversational view for SMS
- Call management
- Contacts: advanced contacts database with support for multiple phone and email details per entry with personal thumbnail pictures and video clips
- Smart dialling to find phone numbers quickly
- Speed dialling, voice dialling (speaker independent) and voice command
- Logs of dialled, received and missed calls
- Conference calling
- Integrated handsfree speaker
Sharing and internet
- Browsing and internet
- Full web browsing of real web pages
- Web browsing with touch control
- Supported markup languages: HTML, XHTML MP, WML, CSS
- Supported protocols: HTTP v1.1, WAP
- TCP/IP support
- Visual history, HTML and JavaScript support
- Flash Lite 4.0 will support a majority of Flash Player 10.1 content
- Nokia Mobile Search
- RSS reader
- Support for streaming video
- Unified home screen access to Facebook and Twitter through Social client
- Social networking status updates visible in phone contacts
- Upload and view photos and video and see locations via Social client
Navigation
- GPS and navigation
- Integrated GPS, A-GPS receivers
- Nokia Maps with free car and pedestrian navigation
- Wi-Fi and network positioning
- Compass and accelerometer for correct orientation of display and bearing
Photography
- Camera
- 5 megapixel camera
- Full Focus
- Fullscreen 16:9 viewfinder with easy-to-use touch screen parameters
- Still images file format: JPEG/EXIF
- Zoom up to 4x (digital)
- Image capture
- Automatic location tagging (geotagging) of images and videos
- Images automatically taken in the correct orientation
- Pinch zoom in Photos image viewer
- View photos by tag cloud, month, album, slide show
- Photo editor
- Other
- Internal memory: 2 GB
- External memory: up to 32 GB microSD card
- High-Speed MicroUSB to PC connectivity
Video
- Video cameras
- Video capture in 640 x 480 (VGA), 640 x 352 (nHD), 176 x 144 (QCIF) at 15 fps
- Settings for scene: Video light, Colour tone, White balance, Exposure
- Zoom up to 2x (digital)
- Video codecs and formats
- Recording codecs: MPEG4-es, H.263, H.264
- Playback codecs: MPEG4, H.263, H.264
- Streaming support: 3GPP and CIF
- Video sharing and playback
- VGA video playback
- Support for download, streaming, and progressive download
- Video editing software
- Videos application: collection of stored videos
- On demand WebTV widgets to watch local and global internet streaming videos
- Support for Flash video
- YouTube browsing and streaming
Music and audio
- Music features
- Album art interface to browse the albums in your music collection
- Nokia Music Player, plus home screen widget
- Nokia Music
- Audio codecs: MP3, SpMidi, AAC, AAC+, eAAC+, WMA
- Bit rate up to 320 kbps
- DRM support WM DRM, OMA DRM 2.0
- Loudspeaker with 102 Phons
- Radio
- Stereo FM radio (87.5-108 MHz/76-90 MHz)
- Home screen widgets for FM and internet radio
Gaming
- Gaming
- Use the touch interface to play games
- Games available for download at Store
Eco profile
- Energy efficiency
- Power Save mode, ambient light sensor, unplug charger reminder, eco-friendly chargers (Nokia Fast Charger AC-8 or Nokia Fast Charger AC-15, depending on country)
- Eco content and services
- Available at the Store, pre-installed eco wallpapers and ringtones, maps for route optimisation and pedestrian navigation
- Materials
- Free of PVC, free of brominated and chlorinated compounds and free of antimony trioxide as defined in Nokia Substance List, bio-based materials in inner parts of the product
- Recycling
- All materials of the device can be recovered as materials and energy
- Packaging
- Made of up to 60% recycled material, 100% recyclable
- User manual
- Interactive user help in device and online, only Quick Guide in the box, eco tips on Green Page
Package Contents
- Standard Sales Package
- Nokia 500
- Nokia Battery BL-4U
- Nokia Connectivity Cable CA-101D
- Nokia Stereo Headset WH-102
- Nokia Fast Charger AC-8 (or Nokia Fast Charger AC-15, depending on country)
- 2 additional battery covers
- Quick start guide
Accessories
- Recommended accessories
- Nokia Bluetooth Stereo Headset BH-111
- Nokia Mini Speaker MD-11
- Nokia Bluetooth Headset BH-108
- Nokia 32 GB microSDHC Card MU-45
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