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The new Nokia Asha Touch: affordability and entertainment at its finest

8:12 AM

Vernon Joseph Go

Nowadays, owning a mobile phone is already a necessity rather than a luxury. While they are mainly used as a communication tool, mobile phones have also become a source of entertainment and a preferred way of connecting to the Internet.

However, even in the Philippines, a nation generally regarded as tech-savvy, not everyone gets to enjoy such privileges. This is mostly because smartphones that contain all these features are oftentimes beyond the means of most Filipinos.

Not anymore. Nokia has found an affordable way to help keep Filipinos connected as it introduces the Asha Touch family. Featuring three exciting smartphones that are perfect for young and urban Filipino consumers, the Nokia Asha Touch range, which consists of Nokia Asha 305, Nokia Asha 306, and Nokia Asha 311, offer unique features that promise several ways of entertainment.

“The new Nokia Asha range will bring the most popular smartphone features within the reach of many. We believe that it is not only important to make the phones affordable, but you also have to be able to really make the most of the features they have. It’s part of our global commitment to connect the next billion to the Internet. These are some of the compelling reasons why we came up with the Nokia Asha Touch family, and we hope that just like other Nokia devices, these smartphones will also become fundamental in our consumers’ daily lives,” said Saulo Passos, Nokia’s communication director for mobile phones.

True enough, the Nokia Asha Touch range of smartphones are packed with qualities that will surely give users their money’s worth. Through their design as well as their exciting feature s, you will discover that these phones let you explore endless possibilities.

With one look, one will immediately notice the stylish designs of the Nokia Asha Touch smartphones. Following Nokia’s legacy of having a superb design, Nokia Asha 305, Asha 306 and Asha 311 are beautifully crafted using high-quality materials. They feature a bright, colorful and intuitive touch screen that allows users to experience fun and adventure right at their fingertips. These phones are also available in colors that match your personality or your lifestyle.

But more important than a smartphone’s exterior are its features that tell us what it’s really capable of. Nokia Asha 305, Asha 306 and Asha 311 all have a visually entertaining user interface that’s fun to use. They also come with Nokia’s exclusive offer where you can download 40 EA games for free. This includes all-time favorite titles like Tetris, Bejeweled, Need for Speed and The Run. And if you are done with these games, there are also around 35,000 other apps waiting to be explored.

Nokia Asha Touch smartphones also allow you to keep in touch with your loved ones through email and chat on the most popular instant messaging providers. You can also stay social by accessing your Facebook and Twitter from the preloaded application. Each smartphone is also equipped with Nokia Maps, which helps you discover and get to your new adventures.

All Nokia Asha Touch smartphones also come with the new Nokia Browser, which makes mobile browsing a better experience for all users. With this improved feature, you can now surf the Internet up to three times faster. Nokia Browser also helps you have a cheaper mobile experience as it reduces your data costs by up to 90 percent.

But although they come from the same family, each of the three smartphones has its unique feature. Nokia Asha 305 is the only one among the three which has the Easy Swap Dual SIM technology, which makes it easier for users to manage several SIM cards without the hassle of turning off the device. It is reasonably priced at P3,890 and is available in Red, Mid Blue, Dark Grey and Silver White.

Meanwhile, its sister device, the Nokia Asha 306 provides WLAN, enabling users to say connected even while they’re on the move. Valued at P4,250, it is also Nokia’s most affordable WIFI handset. It also comes in Red, Mid Blue, Dark Grey and Silver White.

The third smartphone, Nokia Asha 311, boasts of a scratch resistant, capacitive glass screen that’s suitable for a fun and easy mobile experience. Aside from being a 3G device, it is also powered by a 1GHz processor which is handy for a greater and even faster Internet experience. It will be available in two colors: Rose Red and Dark Grey.

To know more about each of the three Nokia Asha Touch smartphones, you may also click on the following links: Asha 305 (http://youtu.be/cBjgWdrE8uc); Asha 306(http://youtu.be/gInzItyjbX0); Asha 311 (http://youtu.be/cz3iEKnyE7w).

Please visit www.nokia.com/press for hi-res photos and detailed product information.

Experience fun and adventure at your fingertips with Nokia Asha 305

6:28 AM

Vernon Joseph Go

Nokia introduces the first product in the Asha Full Touch range, the Nokia Asha 305, a smartphone that’s sure to delight young, urban and aspirational users.

Nokia Asha 305 is an entertaining device that’s designed for great browsing experiences, social networking, and fun apps and games. It has a vivid and colorful 3” touch screen that’s quick and responsive and a newly designed Series 40 OS that’s fun, intuitive and easy to use.

The Nokia Asha 305 also comes with the exclusive EA (Electronic Arts) Games Pack including 40 free best-selling titles like Tetris, Bejeweled, Need for Speed, The Sims, and Fifa 2012. And if you want more games and apps like WhatsApp and Foursquare, you can find hundreds more at the Nokia Store.

The Nokia Asha 305 uses the revolutionary Nokia Browser, which is 3x faster than other browsers. Its revolutionary cloud accelerated technology offers up to 85% compression, thereby saving on your data connection costs.

This smartphone makes it fun and easy for you to stay in touch with friends and family through Facebook, Twitter and IM. It comes with a 2MP camera, and a 2GB memory card (expandable to 32GB). It is also a dual SIM phone with an Easy Swap port that makes it easy for you to change SIMs (w/o turning off the phone or removing the battery) and a SIM Card manager that allows you to make the most of all your SIMs (up to 5).

All in all, Nokia Asha 305 gives you a richer, smarter, more engaging experience for only PhP3,890 (SRP). Choose from four different colors: silver white, red, mid blue, and dark grey.

Also, watch out for Nokia Asha 306, the single SIM version of Nokia Asha 305. It will be available in stores towards end of July 2012.

About Nokia
Nokia is a global leader in mobile communications whose products have become an integral part of the lives of people around the world. Every day, more than 1.3 billion people use their Nokia to capture and share experiences, access information, find their way or simply to speak to one another. Nokia’s technological and design innovations have made its brand one of the most recognized in the world. For more information, visithttp://www.nokia.com.ph.

Nokia accelerates the journey to mobile internet with Asha Touch device range

6:00 AM

Vernon Joseph Go

Nokia has taken another step towards connecting the next billion consumers when it unveiled the Asha Touch family of mobile devices in Bangkok. The three new phone models -- the Nokia Asha 305, Nokia Asha 306 and Nokia Asha 311 -- is set to take the full touch experience to new price points and further expand the successful Asha family. To date, there are 10 Asha devices available in more than 130 markets, providing young, social consumers with a choice of phones to match their own lifestyle.

These latest phones have been designed to provide an incredibly rich, smartphone-like experience to consumers who want to be set free from excessive data consumption costs and short battery life. The Nokia Asha 305, Asha 306 and Asha 311 offer a new, fully re-designed touch user interface, combining the proven ease-of-use from Nokia’s heritage with digital design innovations specifically fit for the purpose.

The beautifully crafted Nokia Asha 311 is a fast and fluid 3.5G capacitive touchscreen device, powered by a 1GHz processor to provide a great internet experience. The bright and edgy Nokia Asha 305 is a fun and affordable phone, featuring the exclusive Easy Swap dual SIM. Its sister, the Nokia Asha 306, is a single SIM model, and becomes Nokia’s most affordable Wi-Fi handset to date.

“By introducing the Asha Touch phones to the market, we’re accelerating our commitment to connect the next billion consumers,” said Mary T. McDowell, Nokia's executive vice president for Mobile Phones. “These phones deliver on what young, urban people value most -- a great-looking device; and an intuitive and affordable experience for connecting to the internet, to their friends, and to a world of entertainment, web apps and content.”

Great for fast, affordable mobile internet and gaming entertainment

These new devices take full advantage of the Nokia Browser 2.0, a major update which uses Nokia’s cloud technology to reduce data consumption by up to 90%, meaning that consumers can enjoy three times faster and cheaper internet access in comparison to devices without cloud-accelerated browsing. It delivers a richer and more interactive mobile experience whilst using less data than a stand-alone internet connected app.

Users can easily stay connected with friends and family at the touch of a button as well as share files and links across their social networks. Furthermore, the Nokia Browser’s Download Manager feature helps consumers to manage external content easily, saving music, video or pictures on a memory card, while surfing the internet.

The Asha family is also getting positive support from developers and consumers. From January to April, 42% of all content downloaded from Nokia Store was delivered to Asha and other Nokia devices based on the Java ecosystem.

Also designed to entertain, the Nokia Asha 305, Asha 306 and Asha 311 comes with 40 EA games which include titles like Tetris, Bejeweled, Need for Speed: The Run and Fifa 2012 ready for download. The Nokia Asha 311 also comes with 15 levels of Angry Birds pre-loaded onto the phone, perfect for making the most of the touchscreen and 1GHz processor.

Product details

The Nokia Asha 311 boasts of 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. It also features a 3.2MP camera and pre-installed Nokia Maps, in addition to the 15 level pre-bundled version of Angry Birds.

The Nokia Asha 305 is a fun and entertaining Easy Swap dual SIM phone, helping users make the most of their phone while retaining control of their costs. The phone features a bright and colorful 3” WQVGA resistive touch screen along with Bluetooth and Dual Band connectivity. It also carries a 2MP camera, Nokia Maps and the revolutionary Nokia Browser.

The Nokia Asha 306 is the sister device to the Nokia Asha 305. Along with all the great features that come with its sister, the Nokia Asha 306 also provides WLAN and supports video streaming through both GPRS and WLAN, enabling users to stay connected while on the move.

The SRP for Nokia Asha 305 is EUR 63 and it’s expected to start shipping in the second quarter of 2012. The Nokia Asha 306 has an SRP of EUR 68 and Nokia Asha 311 has an SRP of EUR 92. Both devices are expected to start shipping in the third quarter of 2012. Above mentioned prices exclude taxes and subsidies.

The new devices images are available at Nokia.com/press.