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Device details

Built on: Nokia Belle

Nokia 500

Announced Date

1 August 2011

Availability

Shipping

Updated

18 April 2012

Device Description

The Nokia 500 is a powerful combination of internet, social networking and entertainment with Symbian Belle operating system. The device features compact and colorful design, 3.2" capacitive TFT touch display, 5 megapixel Full Focus camera and A-GPS with Nokia Maps. Additional features include Qt 4.7, Java MIDP 2.1, Bluetooth 2.1+EDR and Flash Lite 4.0.

Tools

The Tools Centre page (www.developer.nokia.com/Resources/Tools_and_downloads/) provides links to details about all the Nokia Developer tools & SDKs.

Qt SDK 1.2.1

These are the Qt SDK 1.2.1 installers.This update of the SDK provides improvements for targeting the Nokia N9 smartphone with landscape and portrait orientation support in the Simulator, the Qt Quick Components as used in the phone, and three QEMU images: one each for PR1.0, PR1.1, and PR1.2. The SDK provides for coding, testing, and building Qt apps on Microsoft Windows, Linux, and Apple Mac computers.

Specifications are subject to change without notice.

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Technical Specs

Developer Platform: Nokia Belle^[1]
Operating System: Symbian OS
Screen Resolution: 360 x 640 pixels
Notes: ¹ Nokia Belle from sw version 111.020.0059 onwards.

General

Development Frameworks: Qt^[1]
Web Runtime
Java
Symbian C++
Flash
python
Open C/C++
Screen Resolution: 360 x 640 pixels
Screen Color Depth: 24 bits
Screen Size: 3.2 inches
Display Technology: TFT
Device Size: 111.3 x 53.8 x 14.1 mm
Volume: 73 cc
Weight: 93 g
Display Touch Technology: Capacitive Touch
Input Method: Touch Screen
Other Keys: Call Creation Key
Call Termination Key^[2]
Lock Switch
Menu Key
Volume Keys
Frequency Bands: GSM 1800
GSM 1900
GSM 850
GSM 900
WCDMA Band I (2100)
WCDMA Band II (1900)
WCDMA Band IV (1700/2100)
WCDMA Band V (850)
WCDMA Band VIII (900)
Data Bearers: Dual Transfer Mode
EDGE Class B
EGPRS
HSDPA Cat10 14.4 Mbps
HSUPA Cat6 5.76 Mbps
WCDMA
WLAN IEEE 802.11 b/g
Regional Availability: Global
CPU Count: Single CPU
CPU Type: ARM 11
CPU Clock Rate: 1.0 GHz
Graphics Processor: 2D Graphics HW Accelerator with OpenVG 1.1 support
Consumer Link: Device Home Page
Developer Page Link: Developer Home Page
Remote Device Access Service: Link to the Service
Notes: ¹ Qt content can be published to Ovi Store.
² Combined call termination and power key.

Extra Features

Extra Features: Accelerometer Sensor
Ambient Light Sensor
Compass (Magnetometer Sensor)
Flight Mode
FOTA Firmware over the Air
FOTI Firmware over the Internet
Nokia Maps
Nokia Store
On demand Web TV
Ovi Music
PictBridge
Proximity Sensor
Themes
Positioning: A-GPS
GPS

APIs

Preinstalled Qt Version: Qt 4.7.4^[1]
Preinstalled Qt Mobility API Version: 1.2
Preinstalled Qt Quick Components version: 1.1
Preinstalled Qt WebKit version: 4.8.1
Java Runtime: Java Runtime 2.3 for Symbian^[2]
Java Technology: JSR 139 Connected, Limited Device Configuration (CLDC) 1.1
JSR 118 MIDP 2.1
JSR 75 FileConnection and PIM API 1.0
JSR 82 Java™ APIs for Bluetooth 1.1
JSR 172 J2ME™ Web Services Specification 1.0 (RPC package)
JSR 172 J2ME™ Web Services Specification 1.0 (XML Parser package)
JSR 177 Security and Trust Services API for J2ME™ 1.0 (SATSA-APDU package)
JSR 177 Security and Trust Services API for J2ME™ 1.0 (SATSA-CRYPTO package)
JSR 177 Security and Trust Services API for J2ME™ 1.0 (SATSA-PKI package)
JSR 205 Wireless Messaging API 2.0
JSR 226 Scalable 2D Vector Graphics API for J2ME™ 1.1
JSR 234 Advanced Multimedia Supplements 1.1 (audio3d)
JSR 234 Advanced Multimedia Supplements 1.1 (music)
IAP Info API 1.0
eSWT UI API 1.0.3
JSR 135 Mobile Media API 1.2
JSR 179 Location API for J2ME™ 1.0.1
JSR 248 Mobile Service Architecture Subset 1.1 for CLDC 1.1
JSR 256 Mobile Sensor API 1.2
Nokia UI API 1.4
Java API Access Permissions: Java API Access Permissions
Other APIs: OpenVG 1.1
Product ID: RM-750: 0x20035566
Sensor API Channels: Accelerometer Double Tap
Accelerometer XYZ
Ambient Light
Magnetic North
Magnetometer XYZ
Orientation
Proximity Monitor
Rotation
Certificates: Symbian A, Symbian B, Symbian C, Symbian D, UTI Root
Notes: ¹ From sw version 111.020.0059 onwards. Earlier firmware versions will receive 4.7.4 bundle (Qt Mobility 1.2, Qt Quick components 1.1) via Smart Installer. http://www.developer.nokia.com/Community/Wiki/Nokia_Smart_Installer_for_Symbian
² from SW version 111.020.0059 onwards

Browser, Flash and Web Technologies

UAProfile Link: Profile
Browser Version: 7.4^[1]
Example User Agent Header: Mozilla/5.0 (Symbian/3; Series60/5.3 Nokia500/111.020.0059; Profile/MIDP-2.1 Configuration/CLDC-1.1 ) AppleWebKit/533.4 (KHTML, like Gecko) NokiaBrowser/7.4.2.6 Mobile Safari/533.4 3gpp-gba
Browser Details: CSS
HTML 4.1
HTML over TCP/IP
Javascript 1.8
OSS Browser
WAP 2.0
XHTML over TCP/IP
XML
Flash Technology: Flash Lite 4.0
Flash Lite Features: Flash Video
Web Runtime: Web Runtime 7.4
Notes: ¹ 7.4 from sw version 111.020.0059 onwards.

Multimedia

Camera Resolution: 2592 x 1944 pixels
CMOS Sensor: 5.0 Megapixels
Camera Digital Zoom: 4 x
Camera Focus range: 100 cm to infinity
Camera Image Formats: JPEG/Exif
Camera Features: Full Focus, Full Screen Viewfinder, Geotagging, Self Timer, Still Image Editor
Video Recording Resolution: 640 x 480 pixels
Video Recording Frame Rate: 15 fps
Video Digital Zoom: 2 x
Video Recording Formats: H.263, H.264/AVC, MPEG-4
Video Features: Video Editor
Video Player
Video Recorder
Video Sharing
Video Streaming
Video Playback Formats: 3GPP formats (H.263), Flash Video, H.264/AVC, MPEG-4, RealVideo 8,9,10, Sorenson Spark, VC-1, VP6, WMV 9
Video Playback Frame Rate: 15 fps
Graphic Formats: BMP, EXIF, GIF87a, GIF89a, JPEG, JPEG 2000, MBM, OTA, PNG, TIFF, WBMP, WMF
Audio Features: Audio Equalizer
Audio Recorder
Audio Streaming
Bluetooth Stereo
Handsfree Speaker
Loudness
Music Player
Stereo FM RDS Radio
Stereo Widening
Audio Formats: AAC, AMR-NB, AMR-WB, AU, HE-AAC v1, HE-AAC v2, MIDI, MIDI Tones (poly 64), Mobile XMF, MP3, RealAudio 8, SP-MIDI, True tones, WAV, WMA, WVE
Speech Codecs: AMR-NB
EFR
GSM FR
GSM HR

Memory Functions

Maximum User Storage: 130 MB
Mass Storage Memory: 2 GB
ROM Memory: 512 MB
RAM Memory: 256 MB
Memory Card type: Micro SD
Maximum Memory Card Size: 32 GB
Maximum Heap Size: Unlimited
Maximum JAR Size: Unlimited

Connectivity

Local Connectivity: Bluetooth 2.1 +EDR
Bluetooth Stereo Audio
Micro USB
MTP (Multimedia Transfer Protocol)
Nokia AV 3.5mm
Nokia microUSB Cable CA-101
USB 2.0 High-Speed
USB Mass Storage
Bluetooth Profiles: A2DP, AVRCP 1.0, BIP, DUN, FTP, GAP, GOEP, HFP, HSP, OPP, PBAP 1.0, SAP, SDP, SPP 1.0
WLAN support: 802.11b/g
WEP
WPA
WPA2 (AES/TKIP)

Messaging

Messaging: IM, MMS+SMIL, SMS
Messaging Features: OMA Multimedia Messaging Service v1.3
Email Solutions: Mail for Exchange
Nokia Messaging 3.1
OMA E-mail Notification v1.0
Supported Email Protocols: IMAP4, POP3, SMTP
Supported Document Formats: Excel, PDF, Powerpoint, Word, Zip

Power Management

Power Management: 2.0mm Charger Connector
USB Charging
Battery model: BL-4U 3.7V 1110 mAh
GSM Talk Time up to: 7.0 hours
WCDMA Talk Time up to: 5.0 hours
GSM Standby Time up to: 500.0 hours
WCDMA Standby Time up to: 455.0 hours
Video Playback Time up to: 5.3 hours
Video Recording Time up to: 1.5 hours
Music Playback Time up to: 35.0 hours^[1]
Notes: ¹ 19.5 hours with a bluetooth headset

Other

OMA Device Management: OMA Client Provisioning v1.1
OMA Device Management v1.1.2
Synchronization: ActiveSync
OMA Data Synchronization v1.2
SyncML
Digital Rights Management: OMA DRM Forward Lock
OMA DRM v1.0
OMA DRM v2.0
Windows Media DRM 10
DRM Delivery Method: HTTP Download
MMS
OMA Download v1.0