Nokia Asha 210: Social terminal cheap - Silicon

Nokia announced Asha 210 . Recall that the Asha range is listed as the counterweight of its Windows Phone offering, rather upscale, and targets emerging markets as well as non-binding offers Western operators.

new model smartphones light , a terminal screen 2.4 inches (320 x 240 dots or 169 dpi) with physical keyboard , is based on the S40 operating system, indicates ITespresso.fr .

Despite its limited to GSM (not 3G) network connectivity, Asha 210 features a browser Internet (Xpress) optimized technology (data compression side 90% server) to surf without much latency. But the risk of a prohibitive cost of consumption data.

Social Applications galore

avoid explosive bills, it will be better to use the WiFi 802.11g (54 Mbit / s) available in addition. Ideal for access applications integrated social networks: Facebook, Twitter, Viber, Foursquare and significant feature of this type of device, a mail client supports Exchange …

In addition, multi-platform messaging WhatsApp will be directly accessible from a dedicated keyboard. Note also the geolocation tool Nokia Nearby relying on cellular networks to identify, in the absence of GPS.

79 euros

The terminal also benefits from a 2 megapixel camera sensor, a battery of 1200 mAh (12 hours of announcement), dual SIM Version (not available in France), a reader microSD card to overcome the 32 MB internal memory, file sharing via Bluetooth …

all for 79 euros . A record price for an expected terminal in June which should contribute to the success of the range. In the first quarter of 2013, Nokia sold 5 million Asha devices. Least now, however, the Lumia (5.6 million). Basic phones (feature phones ) still constitute the largest volume of the Finnish manufacturer (about 56 million).

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