Nokia Lumia 510 is a budget
Windows Phone 7
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It received multiple large upda ...
smartphone
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developed by
Nokia
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designed specifically for developing markets, such as China, India, Asia-Pacific and Latin America, running the Windows Phone 7.5 (later Windows Phone 7.8)
operating system
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. Unveiled on 23 September 2012, it was released in November of the same year.
The phone shares the limitations of the
Nokia Lumia 610
Nokia Lumia 610 is a Windows Phone smartphone announced at Mobile World Congress 2012. It is designed for young consumers that are buying their first smartphone. The Lumia 610 has a curvy, metallic design. Like the Lumia 710, it comes in cyan, ...
, like not being able to run all Windows Phone applications and not being able to run all background tasks.
Phone Arena has criticized the lack of
microSD
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The standard was introduced in August 1999 by joint efforts between SanDis ...
slot for storage expansion given so little internal storage, the lack of camera flash, the lack of a
front-facing camera
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, the low-resolution video capture and too little RAM memory (256 MB RAM) that makes the phone slow and prevents running some applications.
On 25 February 2013, the
Nokia Lumia 520
The Nokia Lumia 520 is an entry-level Windows Phone 8 smartphone announced by Nokia at the 2013 Mobile World Congress.
In September 2013, the Lumia 520 became the best-selling Windows device in the world, selling more units than any other model ...
, the successor of the Nokia Lumia 510, was presented. The improvements are
Windows Phone 8
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, dual-core 1 GHz Qualcomm S4 chipset, 512 MB of RAM, a better
IPS panel
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display and support for up to 64 GB
microSD
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The standard was introduced in August 1999 by joint efforts between SanDis ...
cards.
Specifications
Hardware
The Lumia 505 has a 4.0-inch TFT capacitive display. It is powered by an 800 MHz Cortex-A5 Qualcomm Snapdragon S1 processor, 256 MB of RAM and 4 GB of internal storage. It has a 1300 mAh Li-Ion battery and a 5-megapixel rear camera. It is available in white, cyan, black, red and yellow.
Software
The Lumia 510 ships with Windows Phone 7.8.
See also
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Windows Phone
Windows Phone (WP) is a discontinued family of mobile operating systems developed by Microsoft for smartphones as the replacement successor to Windows Mobile and Zune. Windows Phone featured a new user interface derived from the Metro design la ...
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Nokia Lumia 710
Nokia Lumia 710 is a Windows Phone 7 smartphone. Its release is part of a change in company's direction which has resulted in a shift from Symbian platform towards Windows Phone for smartphones. While the Nokia Lumia 800 and Lumia 900 target the h ...
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Nokia Lumia 800
Nokia Lumia 800 (codenamed 'Sea Ray') is a smartphone from Nokia, first unveiled on 26 October 2011 at the Nokia World 2011 event. It originally ran on Windows Phone 7.5 "Mango" and was Nokia's first device to run the Windows Phone operating sy ...
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Nokia Lumia 900
The Nokia Lumia 900 is a Windows Phone-powered smartphone, first unveiled on January 9, 2012 by Nokia at Consumer Electronics Show 2012, where it won the Best Smartphone award in January 2012. The phone has 4G LTE support and was released in Ap ...
References
External links
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Lumia 510 technical specifications(at developer.nokia.com)
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Lumia 510
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Videotelephony
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