Nokia Lumia 505 Launched

By Gene Ryan Briones on 12/14/2012, filed in Home > CellPhones

Nokia Lumia 505 Launched Nokia took the wraps off its latest low-end Windows Phone today. Called the Nokia Lumia 505, it’s the sister phone of the Lumia 510 and it is making its way to Telcel in Mexico. The Nokia, which will be available in the coming weeks, sports a 3.7-inch AMOLED display with a 800 x 480 screen resolution and is “likely” powered by a single core chip. The handset is also supported by a 256MB internal memory and 4GB of on-board storage. Other features include an 8-megapixel rear-facing camera, Bluetooth 2.1 support, and a 1300 mAh battery. Do note that this phone is running Windows Phone 7.5 and cannot be upgraded to Windows Phone 8. The Nokia Lumia 505 comes in pink, black, and red.

Nokia: Nokia is a Finnish communications company that was the largest phone vendor (per unit) between 1988 to 2012. The company's history go back to 1871 but the Nokia that we know today (the Nokia corporation) was founded in 1967 by the merger of three Finnish companies. It is then that Nokia worked on networking equipment and was ultimately involved in the launch of the first cellular network in 1981 (Mobira Oy). Nokia because a key developer of GSM, the standard that we all know today. Although Nokia still produces a range of phones that includes entry-level handsets and Symbian smartphones, the company is counting on the Windows Phone OS to regain the share that it once had. The current flagship Windows Phone device from Nokia is the Lumia 920.

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