Thursday, November 10, 2011

Nokia 701: Symbian Belle in Brazil for $999

No more waiting to test your version of Symbian Belle (beautiful name). Nokia Brazil shot today in a statement which confirms the availability of the Nokia 701 on home soil. For $ 999 on Nokia's own stores and retail chain, the equipment can be his running of the operating systems of Finnish manufacturer.


Nokia 701
The predicates are the Nokia 701 processor clocked at 1 GHz and 512 MB of RAM. I have more information about the manufacturer of the chip, so I can not attest to their quality - all I know is that the 1 GHz falls in the range of devices and almost middle-top of the Brazilian market.

The internal memory is 8 GB. For more space you need to buy a microSD card (up to 32 GB).

I also can not stop talking about the camera phone. They are 8-megapixel (no Carl Zeiss), which ensures images with dimensions of 3264 × 2448 pixels. There are two beams in LED flash for better lighting of the scene in moments of darkness.

The Nokia 701 runs the latest version of Symbian, called Belle. It has the traditional navigation apps, app store and maps with street names in Portuguese in Brazil. Nokia also claims that its technology is only able to, through the Nokia Maps, enter the name of national locations without that strange accent. Depends extra download (and free) to work correctly, however.

This Symbian has the new look inherent to the platform, put up in 2011. Are new icons and menus with different organization. The same pattern was adopted by MeeGo 1.2, available only on the Nokia N9. The N9 is for sale since last week for U.S. $ 1,699.


8 megapixel camera
Another technology in the mobile phone is the NFC. With it you can make two devices communicate with each other just touching her rear. At Nokia World in London had a demonstration of NFC to release the subway passage. Here in Brazil, to my knowledge, there is no large company or initiative supporting the NFC. Anyway, technology is present.

Priced at $ 999 and no more, the Nokia N9 Symbian Belle for now is to retail. Later that year, the TIM began selling the device (most likely unlocked).

Asked by this humble scribe, Nokia of Brazil did not know if the Nokia 701 comes out or is mounted on the company's facilities in Manaus, Amazonas. I promise to update the article when they pass me this information.