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Nokia 9500

This communicator came to replace 9210i. Differs in a bigger memory size, better screen and some other improvements.

Class: communicator
Position in the line: above Nokia 9210i
Rival phones: Motorola MPx
Description based on official information

General features
- Announced in February 2004, in the market since the 4 Q 2004, official announcement on the 22 of February 2004
- eGSM900/1800/1900
- Battery type BP-5L, 1300 mAh
- Battery life:
- Full charging - 1 hour 50 minutes
- High-contrast graphical display with the resolution of 640x200 pixels, 65K (TFT), not a touchscreen. External screen 65K, 128x128 pixels
- 5 positional navi button
- The phone is run by Symbian OS 7.0s
- QWERTY-keypad
- 28 menu languages, English and two extra languages may be used at the same time
- VGA-camera - the maximum resolution is 640 x 480 pixels, recording 3GP clips with sound (Sub QCIF or QCIF) up to 10 minutes in duration. A possibility to edit photos, video. Night mode.
- Weight: 222 g
- Dimensions: 148 x 57 x 24 mm

Memory
- 80 MB of memory are shared dynamically between the phone book, a calendar, messages, images and applications
- MMC cards expansion connector (64 MB card in a standard kit)
- A possibility to assign a photo to a name in the phone book
- A possibility to keep Name, Surname (two lines), Company name, Position, Phone number, Mobile phone number, Fax and E-mail address for a name — total number of fields is 8 (a possibility to increase the number at will).
- The number of groups is not limited, A possibility to assign a name to several groups at the same time
- SIM-card entries are stored separately, viewing them with the internal memory is impossible
- Call lists, no any limits in the number of entries, all the entries contain besides the date and the duration of the call, a call type. A possibility to set a storage period for calls in the list (a month by default)
- MMS up to 100 KB for a message

Call management, ringing tones
- Polyphonic call melodies, True Tones
- Voice dialing for 25 numbers, voice tags
- Loud speaker
- Call duration is shown during a conversation
- Musical editor, a possibility to assign melodies to the names in the phone book
- mp3/AAC files as a call signal

SMS
- Predictive text input Т9
- Templates (10 are preset, a possibility to edit them or add own ones )
- A possibility to send and receive graphical messages
- Concatenated messages
- MMS

Connectivity
- WAP 2.0
- Opera Browser
- IrDA
- Bluetooth
- GPRS (4+2)
- EDGE
- E-mail protocols: SMTP, POP3, IMAP4
- Synchronization with PC via Bluetooth or IrDA
- SyncML
- SMIL
- Instant Messaging
- MMS
- Wi-Fi

Organizer and extras
- User's profiles(5), temporary profile
- Time, date
- Calculator, currency converter
- Stopwatch (up to 20 intermediate results), countdown timer
- Organizer supports different kinds of events, reminders
- To-do list
- Dictaphone
- mp3 player
- A possibility to record video with sound - QCIF (176x144) or subQCIF (128x96)
- RealOne Player: plays RealMedia and 3GPP-compatible files
- Photo album
- MIDP JavaTM (2.0)
- A possibility to load Java applications
- Games