The Nokia 600 was an announced but unreleased touchscreen-based smartphone developed by

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. It was announced in August 2011 as one of three launch devices for the

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Belle operating system. The Nokia 600 was designed as a music-centric phone and would have been equipped with a 106-

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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 or 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 2GB of memory, expandable to 32GB via

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card, and a 1GHz processor. It would also have featured

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(3.5G) network connectivity alongside Bluetooth 3.0,

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, and

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Music and radio

The device was designed primarily for music. The included loudspeaker, according to Nokia, would have made the 600 the 'loudest' phone it had ever produced. The 600 was also to have included

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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

operating system, which would prove to be the final update for the platform before Nokia switched to Microsoft's

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software.

References

External links

Mobiles.sulekha.com

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