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Nokia launches Asha 311 and Asha 305 in India

New Delhi: Expanding its Asha series, Nokia has launched two new budget phones – Asha 311 and Asha 305 – in India.

Priced at Rs 7,139, the Nokia Asha 311 has a 3-inch scratch resistant capacitive touchscreen with a resolution of 400×240 pixels. Weighing 95g, the phone has an internal memory of 256MB (approximately 100MB free user memory), which is expandable up to 32GB using a microSD card.

The Nokia Asha 311 is powered by a 1 GHz processor. The phone, which is engineered with a 1110 mAh battery, is said to offer 14 hours of talktime on 2G network and 6 hours on 3G network. The camera sports a 3.2 megapixel camera. It has no flash. On the other hand, the Nokia Asha 305 is a dual SIM phone. Priced at Rs 5,029, the phone has a 3-inch resistive touch screen. The Nokia Asha 305 has an internal memory of 10MB, expandable with microSD card up to 32 GB. Weighing 98.3g, the phone has a 2 megapixel camera.

The Nokia Asha 311 will be available starting August 12 across the country, while the Nokia Asha 305 is already available in the market.

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Nokia’s new Series 40 UI - It’s new hope

Nokia has definitely cooked up a new UI which borrows a lot from the legacy of the MeeGo Harmattan UI

Adding to the benefits of the UI, Nokia with its usual marketing muscle is able to offer 40 EA games for free on these devices and also a version of Angry Birds that comes with 15 levels.

If Nokia can further push down the price points and arm the more devices with capacitive displays at the price points of the 305 and 306, then Nokia will surely have a winner at its hands. And mind you, we can expect some of these UI innovations to trickle down to the higher end Windows Phone devices. Weather we will see these innovations boil down to the whole Windows Phone ecosystem is another story (Which is highly probable as Nokia may not want to fragment the ecosystem), but if Nokia plans to cater a custom Windows Phone experience then this could be a direction it could take.

we can expect some of these UI innovations to trickle down to the higher end Windows Phone devices

Of course, I have not used the device, so this whole theory of mine is based on the fact that these devices will offer compelling intuitive user experiences to the consumer at the low end of the market.