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The first Symbian Belle devices are now shipping – the Nokia 700 and Nokia 701. The two devices run a 1GHz processor and sports an 8 MP, fixed focus camera with dual-LED flash.
Personally, I prefer the 701 with a 3.5″ IPS LCD display. The 700 has a 3.2″ AMOLED display and a 5 MP, fixed focus camera with LED flash.
I can tell you off the bat that Symbian Belle rocks, even on my 680 MHz processor N8, so imagine it on a 1GHz device. If you were considering these devices, go on, knock yourself out.
Founder of MobilityArena. Yomi’s journey in mobile started in 2001. Besides obsessing over mobile phones, he also started creating WAP sites (early mobile-friendly websites created with WML). He began writing about phones in 2004 and has been at it since then. He has owned over 200 devices, from Symbian, Palm, PocketPC/Windows Mobile, BlackBerry/BB10, webOS, Windows Phone, Firefox, Ubuntu Touch, to Android, iOS, and KaiOS operating systems.
Yomi, please, inform us whenever they hit the Nigerian stores. I cant wait to lay my hands on the 701. I cant wait
pls yomi i nid to know if the nokia c7 preinstalled with symbian anna is available in nigeria cos it startd shipin since july and i hv not seen it yet.
emex,
I haven’t run into it either, but be sure to ask at the stores when you go shopping.
trust me,i have done dat,but nutin yet,guess i’ll have to wait.
I’m sooooo not interested in these phones. EDof [fixed-focus] cameras are the main reason. Another is that none of them is up to 4″.
I’ll continue with my renewed Anna-N8 until Belle is officialy released for it. At least, I’m sure I’ll get it before E7, C7, C6-01, X7, and E6. 😉
pls i really dead serious about getting the nokia 701 aka helen for my fiancee called HELEN as a gift before our marriage on 12 of nov. 2011 , pls wil it be available in nigeria stores then
The nokia 701 has been tagged ‘brightest phone in the world’. Interesting. I cant work with that screen size though. It must be greater or 4′. Another deal breaker for me is social integration (would have settled for the c7 or E6, but their lack lustre performance kills morale)….wonder if Belle fixed this