Both devices are expected to start shipping in the third quarter of Worth mentioning are 40 Free EA games which make their way to this lot of devices as well,. As well as providing a great, social online experience, the Nokia Asha , Asha and Asha have been created with entertainment in mind.
The Nokia Asha also comes with 15 levels of Angry Birds pre-loaded onto the phone, perfect for making the most of the touchscreen and 1GHz processor. It boasts a bright and colourful, scratch resistant capacitive glass screen with polarization filters ensuring users get the best experience from the unique and visually entertaining user interface.
The Nokia Asha also features a 3. Although playing host to a fairly limited amount of internal storage, the Nokia Asha , like many of its rivals can be expanded through the use of the integrated microSD Card slot. The budget handset accepts cards up to 32GB in size.
Sadly, and slightly annoying, in a design faux pas, the microSD card slot sits under the battery so you have to remove the battery to swap cards.
On the plus side, Nokia includes a 2GB card as part of the package, giving you a decent amount of space to store your music tracks, photos and videos clips.
Specs As you would expect, the Nokia Asha is driven primarily via its touchscreen. This is pretty small, measuring just 3. The display is bright and its viewing angles are quite wide, and this combined with its vibrant colours make it quite good by budget phone standards. Essentially this adds a new user interface over the top of Series 40 system that has been designed from the ground up for touch input. A lot of its design makes it feel like a cut down version of Android.
You can also play music tracks from here, call a number or start writing text messages. Instead all your apps are listed in an app launcher that scrolls from top to bottom.
You can also swipe to the right from here to access the dialler, while swiping left shows you to a grid of eight shortcuts for launching applications, such as the web browser, Nokia Maps or the Social app. It still does suffer from slightly too many notification screens — for example, before you set your connection choice as default, it asks you whether to grant data access every time you open an app, which is annoying. Further adding to the user expereince Nokia has preloaded the Asha with a number of apps.
Nokia has also added its Nokia Maps application. This allows you to download up to 40 EA games from the app store for free. The games are very basic, Java games, though, so their appeal is a bit limited. Sadly there are still a few other issues with the Nokia Asha as well.
For example, there are only really two zoom levels — a fully zoomed out overview and a zoomed in reading style view. Jumping between the two is quite jarring and can make it a bit difficult to zoom to a specific spot on the page that you want to read. For example, a lot of the time you have to select options in pop-up menus and then tap on a tick at the top of the menu to action the command, which is quite different to how most other touchscreen operating systems work and takes a bit of getting used to.
You have to exit and reload another app every time. It's no stunner but it's not hideous either. The front of the phone is all touchscreen apart from a plastic cap at the base, topped off with a silver bar that wraps all the way around the back of the phone. On the right-hand edge you also get a volume rocker and a physical lock key -- which I found a little stiff to press. Siting the power key on the front isn't amazingly intelligent design -- if you're cramming the phone into a packed bag, I found it could turn itself on if switched off.
Overall, the phone has a very plasticky feel and -- thanks to its high-shine curved backplate -- a habit of tumbling out of your hands at inopportune moments. Build quality feels pretty rigid, but applying pressure will generate a few plasticky squeaks. I also found that because the back is so shiny, it's annoyingly hard to remove to get at the battery, SIM and microSD card slots.
It's a case of applying both thumbs and keep pushing. There are three external ports all sited on the top edge: Nokia's proprietary power port, a micro-USB socket for transferring media to and from a computer and a 3. The stands out from fellow Ashas such as the , because it lacks a physical keyboard or keypad.
Instead, you get a 3-inch full touchscreen display, toughened with Gorilla Glass. Its resolution is only x pixels, which equates to a lowly density of pixels per inch. At this resolution, when fully zoomed out of a desktop web page such as the CNET UK site, text is completely illegible and you have to tap to zoom in to read every block of text.
Overall, the display lacks crispness and has a hazy appearance -- so photos and websites look murky and poorly defined. Colours also look more muted than vibrant. The touchscreen's responsiveness isn't bad, but it feels sluggish when responding to your taps.
A slight feeling of inertia accompanies everything you do. This lag is more likely to be the fault of the Series 40 software than cheap screen hardware. Series 40 is one of Nokia's legacy operating systems from mobile days gone by.
On the Asha , Series 40 isn't as old skool as it used to be, displaying various borrowed elements from iOS and Android -- such as a grid of round-edged icons and a tray that can be swiped down from the top of the home screen to get to certain settings. When you flick to scroll through the icons, they come to rest with a bump and bounce after the last row is reached much like the iPhone's icons.
So, on the surface, Series 40 looks like familiar smart phone territory -- with friendly looking icons and swipeable home screens. But legacy baggage soon shows its face in the form of inscrutable error messages and parades of confirmation pop-ups, much like the dialogue boxes that haunt Windows PCs.
This sort of user interface is how things used to be in the bad old days of mobile devices. Happily, UI design has swiped on elsewhere, so there's no need to tether yourself to such a neurotic system unless you're a diehard Nokia fan.
One neat touch for people who do a lot of calling is that the dialler entirely occupies one of the home screens, meaning you can get to it quickly just by swiping left from the main screen. If you're wondering about apps, they are available via Nokia's Ovi store.
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