Despite the shift of market focus and attention towards the high-end consumer smartphone and manufactures are trying to bring them in cheap price. Nokia unveiled a couple of these. Nokia Asha 308 and Nokia Asha 309 are focused on emerging markets and are based on the Series 40 platform. It’s not even smart phones, but the functions they may compete with devices of this kind.
These Nokia Asha 308 and Asha 309 are the developments of the basis of the latest version of Series 40 for touch phones. And this is built on the gestures menu navigation, and rounded icons, and general logic interface. In addition, the Asha 308 and 309 have a good set of useful software. For example, corporate cards Nokia, for customers in the popular social networks, the original browser Xpress Browser, which allows to save bandwidth by compressing the remote villages and their adaptation to the small screen.
The Nokia 308 and Nokia 309 phone’s hardware is also very good for its price range. They installed a processor with a frequency of 800 MHz, 3-inch display with capacitive touch panel with a resolution of WQVGA (240×400), 20 MB of internal memory and a slot for microSD (2 GB card included, supports a maximum of – 32 GB), 2 megapixel camera and GSM-module with support for EDGE.
Nokia Asha 308 has two SIM-slot and supports proprietary technology Easy Swap (fast switching between cards). In Nokia Asha 309 there is SIM-only one slot, but there is a module Wi-Fi. These two phones Nokia Asha 308 and Nokia 309 will be available soon with a basic price of $ 100.