The Nokia 701 is a

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from

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released in Q4 2011. It shipped with the "Belle" version of

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. It has a 3.5" IPS-LCD display with 640 x 360 pixels. The brightness of the display is 1000

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(which Nokia called the brightest display in the world) and uses

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. Nokia announced the phone on 24 August 2011. Its design is very much based on that of the

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. A Nokia Belle update (Feature Pack 1) increased the processor speed of the 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, Quickoffice, Music Player, Social client for social network feeds,

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, Nokia Browser, Nokia Music, Ovi Store, Vlingo, Microsoft Communicator Mobile, Shazam, Adobe PDF reader, WebTV widgets, Angry Birds Magic with NFC (free edition), and Asphalt 5 with NFC.

References

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