The Nokia 600 was an announced but unreleased touchscreen-based
smartphone
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developed by
Nokia
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. It was announced in August 2011 as one of three launch devices for the
Symbian Belle
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operating system. The Nokia 600 was designed as a music-centric phone and would have been equipped with a 106-
phon
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loudspeaker, which Nokia claimed was the loudest it had ever installed in a product.
It would have been available in Black, White, Pink and Lime. However, the phone was cancelled by Nokia in November 2011.
Features
The device would have featured a 3.2"
nHD (640x360
px) display and 5 megapixel camera with flash, 720p video recording and 2x digital zoom. It would have offered 2 GB of memory, expandable to 32 GB via
microSD
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card, and a 1GHz processor.
It would also have featured
HSPA
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(3.5G) network connectivity alongside Bluetooth 3.0,
GPS
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, and
NFC.
Music and radio
The device was designed primarily for music. The included loudspeaker, according to Nokia, would have made the Nokia 600, as the 'loudest' phone, it had ever produced.
The phone was also to have included
FM radio
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functionality with a built-in antenna, meaning that a set of wired headphones would not have been required for the FM radio to function.
Software
The Nokia 600 would have been one of three launch devices for the 'Belle' update of Nokia's
Symbian
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operating system,
which would prove to be the final update for the platform before Nokia switched to Microsoft's
Windows Phone
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software.
References
External links
Nokia 600 Specs - GSMArena
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Mobile phones introduced in 2011
600
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Symbian devices