The Nokia 701 is a multi-touch

Multi-touch

In computing, multi-touch refers to a touch sensing surface's ability to recognize the presence of two or more points of contact with the surface...

 Symbian

Symbian

Symbian is a mobile operating system and computing platform designed for smartphones and currently maintained by Accenture. The Symbian platform is the successor to Symbian OS and Nokia Series 60; unlike Symbian OS, which needed an additional user interface system, Symbian includes a user...

 Belle smartphone

Smartphone

A smartphone is a high-end mobile phone built on a mobile computing platform, with more advanced computing ability and connectivity than a contemporary feature phone. The first smartphones were devices that mainly combined the functions of a personal digital assistant and a mobile phone or camera...

 released in Q4 2011. It has a very bright and robust 3.5" IPS-LCD display with 640 x 360 pixels. The brightness of the display is 1000 nits and the used Gorilla Glass

Gorilla Glass

Gorilla Glass, manufactured by Corning, is an alkali-aluminosilicate thin sheet glass engineered specifically to be thin, light and damage-resistant. Its primary application is portable electronic devices with screens, such as mobile phones, portable media players, and laptop displays...

 makes the display very robust. Nokia announced the phone on 24 August 2011.

Apps

Additional Apps are available in the Ovi Store from Nokia. The Nokia 701 has several preloaded Apps: Phone switch, Quickoffice, Music Player, Social client for social network feeds, Nokia Maps

Nokia Maps

Nokia Maps is a free mapping product and service by Nokia for its mobile phones and smartphone multimedia devices....

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