The Nokia 701 is an entry-level

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. It was announced on 24 August 2011 and released in the third quarter of 2011. It shipped with the "Belle" version of

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. It has a 3.5"

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display with 640 x 360 pixels. The brightness of the display is 1000 nits (which Nokia called the brightest display in the world) and uses Corning Gorilla Glass. Its design is very much based on that of the Nokia C7. A Nokia Belle update (Feature Pack 1) increased the processor speed of the Nokia 701 from 1.0 GHz to 1.3 GHz.

Applications

Additional apps are available in the

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from Nokia. The Nokia 701 has several preloaded apps: Phone switch,

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, Music Player, Social client for social network feeds, Nokia Maps, Nokia Browser, Nokia Music, Ovi Store,

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, Microsoft Communicator Mobile, Shazam, Adobe PDF Reader, WebTV widgets, ''Angry Birds Magic'' with NFC (free edition), and '' Asphalt 5'' with NFC.

References

External links

Nokia 701 Specs - GSMArena
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