Nokia Asha 300 - Review

Nokia Asha 300

  Nokia Asha 300 is not a kind of phone that bring revolution to the mobile world, but if you're looking for a for a cheap and simple phone in the market then it could be one. In terms of looks the phone looks pretty with its basic design. The phone posses an alphanumeric keypad with a touchscreen sitting above it while the bottom edges are rounded to add elegance to it. The keys of the pad are spaced very pleasantly, so that one one should not face any trouble while tapping out texts. The phone adorns a 2.4-inch touch screen which is large and clear to display the UI. The resistive touch display offers the slick appearance to it and smooth navigation which is quite comparable to other touchscreen phones.




Nokia Asha 300 is the revamped and upgraded variant of Nokia C3 touch and Type handset but there is a huge gap in their prices. At the back of the phone, Nokia includes a 5-mega pixel camera which would be a definitely a plus point. One can capture the image with 4x digital zoom. Nokia offers the facility to edit the image like rotating a image or changing the mode from portrait to landscape. Further it includes self timer, white balance and color tone effect settings. It's not a great deal in terms of memory on board to store snapped photos and other multimedia files the phone provides you the internal memory of 140MB which can be extended up to 32GB via a micro SD card.

Nokia Asha 300

Nokia Asha 300

On technicalities department a 1GHz processor that render the phone to be loaded with speed capabilities to run applications well like web browsing. In addition to it, for the better connectivity with Internet the phone supports Nokia OSS Internet Browser (WAP 2.0 XHTML). Along with it Nokia 300 also support Nokia Browser as secondary browser. The phone allows to connect and remain in touch with your friends with various social networking sites. However for music fanatics Nokia 300 supports music player with touch control that supports a wide range of audio formats. The music lovers will also entertain themselves with a Stereo FM radio with RDS by tuning their favorite channel. Further Nokia Asha 300 comes pre-loaded with many interesting games to entertain you while you're traveling. On whole Nokia 300 is a fully loaded and affordable smartphone.

Overall Review

Nokia seems to be on a spree of launching touch and type phones and Nokia Asha 300 is their latest offering. Nokia Asha 300 is a single SIM phone with touch and type capabilities. It runs on the Symbian series 40 operating system and that with support of a 1 GHz processor that renders its great performance speed and efficiency. It shall be out in a whole range of bold and bright colors to attract young users like Pink, Red, Graphite and Gold. This latest Nokia offerings boasts some really cool and impressive features like its Symbian series 40 OS, 1 GHz processor, 5 mega-pixels camera, expandable memory, Bluetooth, 3 G and USB support. It is good at power management with its 1110 mAh battery. It has pre-installed games, stereo FM radio, media player and loudspeakers for users entertainment. Nokia Asha 300 price falls in mid range and it is expected to officially arrive in the fourth quarter of 2012.

User Interface and UI functionality

Nokia Asha 300 is a blower device with prominent touch and type and swipe feature. It has a resistive touch-screen set above a typical alphanumeric keypad. The users can easily use this device with either of the two. It is easy to tap and swipe on this phone but its UI is not as smooth as that of a luxurious smartphone and users may find it easy to type (for those who prefer using a proper keypad). The resistive screen is its another drawback as many cheaper devices with better touch-screens are available. This Nokia device operates on 1 GHz processor and that ensures that its performance and speed will be envy of many on-lookers. Nokia Asha 300 looks reasonably classy with its rounded edges. Its wide 2.4 inches TFT resistive color touch display with 240 X 320 pixels resolution also sets it apart from the usual phones. The screen shows 256 K colors with ease.  It seems durable with a nice body form and design. It has well spaced keys, physically measures 112.8 mm, 49.5 mm and 12.7 mm in length, width and thickness respectively and weighs as much as 85 grams. It is not very slim but definitely pocket able. It is not very heavy either. The phone shall be selling in exciting colors as Graphite, Night Shade, Gold, White Silver, Pink, Red colors.

Multimedia features

Nokia Asha 300 boasts a good quality media player and a stereo FM radio. The audio quality of the phone is quite satisfying. It supports vibration, polyphonic (64) and MP3 ringtones. A music playback time of as long as 28 hours is also permissible on this device. The camera of the phone clicks stills at 5 mega pixels and also shoots VGA videos at 30fps. Users will find it amusing to upload their pictures and videos on social networking sites on a single tap.

Pictures and Video quality

Nokia Asha 300 clicks decent quality pictures and videos with its 5 mega pixels fixed focus camera that are in resolution of 2592 X 1944 pixels. The primary camera also shoots videos in VGA @30 fps. The memory of the phone is not enough to save many pictures and videos and they need to be almost instantly put up on Facebook, removed or saved elsewhere.

Internet support

An advanced WAP 2.0/HTML/xHTML browser exists in Nokia Asha 300 and facilitates web browsing hassle free. The downloading, Internet speed and access is quite good, thanks to the power packed phone with a 1 GHz processor. Also, it operates on most familiar Symbian S40 operating system that many a people are used to. It does not facilitate navigation via GPS as it lacks the internal GPS receiver. However, with 3 G on board, it allows users to speedily download. On HSDPA, users can download at 10.2 mbps and on HSUPA at 2 mbps.

Internal and External Memory

Nokia Asha 300 claims to have an in built memory of 140 MB and also boasts 256 MB ROM and 128 MB RAM support. It also allows huge memory expansion of up to 32 GB with aid of a compatible micro SD card. It can save and maintain almost unlimited phonebook entries, photocalls, messages, mails, games, apps and call records.

Applications and Gaming

Nokia Asha 300

Nokia Asha 300 facilitates downloading of apps and games and because it is having an efficient processor, gaming is smarter and more enjoyable. Yet, since it is not a smartphone, we do not expect to get a whole range of fascinating stuff and downloading it greatest speeds and also it lacks enough space to save more games. Despite of not being an Android device, it comes pre-installed with incomplete version of Angry Birds Lite.

Battery Backup

Thepower management capabilities of Nokia Asha 300 battery rated at 1110 mAh is such that it delivers talk time of 6 hours 54 minutes (2G) and 4 hours 18 minutes (3G). A standby time of 550 hours (2G) and 597 hours (3G) can also be availed on this phone with utmost ease.

Connectivity Offered

Nokia Asha 300 boasts a Bluetooth, GPRS/EDGE network connection and 3 G support. Nokia Asha 300 also facilitates connectivity via mails, messages and social networking. There is network support on GSM bands over quad band operating frequencies of 850/900/1800/1900 MHz and on 3G HSDPA over 850/900/1900/2100 MHz frequencies.

Compare

There are many touch and type smartphones in the market to give tough competition to Nokia’s Asha 300. For instance, Nokia Asha 300 may easily lose out to a powerful Motorola device, the Motorola Charm. Other devices that may give competition to Nokia Asha 300 are Sony Xperia Mini Pro, HTC ChaCha, Samsung Galaxy 551 and Samsung Galaxy Pro. Though Motorola Charm is a bit expensive device, its touch and type capabilities are far better and so is its Motoblur UI which is far ahead of Nokia’s in house UI technology. It has a rich and classy feel attached to it. It boasts of many goodies like huge storage, 2.8 inches wide TFT touch screen, full QWERTY keypad, Android OS, backtrack navigation pad, CrystalTalk Plus technology for enhanced audio etc etc. However, this expensive device does not have a 5 mega pixels camera and other multimedia stuff that Nokia Asha 300 boasts of. The low price of this Nokia device also goes in its favor as it is also a vital consideration for many buyers.

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