Nokia unveils new feature phones Asha 305 , Asha 306 and Asha 311

After they anticipated a few weeks ago, this morning, Nokia announced three new touch devices from the Asha series : Asha 305, Asha 306 and Asha 311. The three feature phones will be equipped with social features, the Nokia Browser for S40 2.0 and now classic EA games (such as Tetris ®, Bejeweled ®, Need for Speed ​​The Run ™ and EA SPORTS ™ FIFA 12).

These are the specs of the Nokia Asha 305 and Nokia Asha 306:

• S40
• Display 3.0 "WQVGA, resistive touch screen
• Camera 2Mpix
• Music player
• FM radio
• Connectivity GPRS / EDGE
• Nokia Maps
• Colors Silver White, Red, Mid Grey and Dark Blue

The Nokia Asha 305 is also equipped with Easy Swap Dual SIM technology from Nokia, which will handle two SIM simultaneously.

The Nokia Asha 311 is instead a 3.5G phone with a 3.2 megapixel camera and 1GHz processor, designed for a better web experience and gaming. In addition to the 40 games EA will also feature phone with 15 levels of Angry Birds preinstalled.

These are the prices and availability of the three Asha phones:

• Asha Nokia 305 to 63 euros (plus tax), available in Q2 of 2012
• Asha Nokia 306 to 68 euros (plus tax), available in Q3 of 2012
• Asha Nokia 311 to 92 euros (plus tax), available in Q3 of 2012

More info at Nokia Conversations / Nokia Press.

Opera Mini 7 arrives on Nokia S40 feature phones (video)

Closed branch of 6.5, Opera this morning announced version 7 of the Mini Browser for feature phones. The browser, released in Java and who will do battle with the new Nokia Browser for S40 , carries with it important changes especially in the content management of the Smart Page.

Features:

• The Smart Page will give you instant updates from your favorite sites ,weather and news
• Links to various social networks directly in the Smart Page
• Data compression to speed up the connection and save on web traffic

More information and download: My Opera / m.opera.com.

Nokia officially presented the new Nokia 110 and Nokia 112 dual sim phones

A few moments ago Nokia has officially announced two new feature phones: Nokia 110 and Nokia 112. Intended for young audiences, both phones will have 40 exclusive games for EA, direct access to Twitter and Facebook, the new Nokia Web Browser, capable of reducing data traffic up to 90%, and support Email and Instant Messaging . Do not miss even a VGA camera, FM radio, the audio / video player, microSD support (up to 32Gb) and features DualSim Easy Swap technology from Nokia, with which we can handle the fast switch between two SIM and save detailed information up to 5 different sim.

But what are the differences between the two phones? The Nokia 110 will offer a range of 10.5 hours on call while the Nokia 112 will be up to 14 hours. In standby mode instead will range up to 26.5 days with the Nokia 110 and 35 days for the Nokia 112. The Nokia 112 will also be available with the eBuddy application preinstalled.

Specifications:

• 1.8 "TFT LCD 128 x 160px display
• Dual SIM
• FM Radio & Media Player
• VGA Camera
• Series 40
• (Nokia 110) 110 x 46 x 14.8mm for 80g
• (Nokia 112) 110.4 x 46.9 x 15.4mm for 85.5g
• GSM 900/1800
• GPRS / EDGE
• Bluetooth v2.1 with EDR
• Audio 3.5 mm

The Nokia 110 will be sold at a price of € 35 (plus tax) and the Nokia 112 will cost € 38 (plus tax). The Nokia 110 will be sold already during the second quarter of this year, the Nokia 112 will come in the next quarter.

Nokia 110:

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New Nokia 311 Pics and look at the new multitouch, swipe S40 touch UI

Seen in recent days, perhaps a preview of the Nokia 311 is again the subject of itself. One of new feature phones from Nokia is in fact appeared with represented form factor and functionality photos, but without clarifying if the device is based on unannounced Meltemi or S40 Touch .

Based on a system of Swipe (style MeeGo Harmattan), here are some features of the Nokia 311 and the next features of the next feature Nokia phones :

• Swipe
• Swipe for navigation in the 3 HomeScreen (applications, home, dialer)
• Swipe to respond
• Pinch to zoom (multitouch)
• Notification bar (as Belle Symbian / Android / IOS)
• Widgets
• Nokia Maps

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Nokia 311 and 305 - Leaked photos of the new S40 full touch devices

Recently on the internet appeared pictures of the new Nokia 311 and Nokia 305 , two S40 series phones characterized with full touch interface.This feature is new to Nokia S40 devices,since they always  resorted to more traditional input devices based on physical keys. 

The touchscreen UI could use a suitably modified version of the S40 platform based on the gesture system that was described in the user manual of the Nokia 306 that we have seen it recently as well. As you can see from the photos in the begging the only two physical buttons on the front seem to be the ones to open and close calls and  the rest is all touch screen display. 

The photos are not able to reveal further details about technical specifications, but the news on the new full touch S40 device should not be delayed too long. The ideal date would be represented by the event set for May 15th by Nokia in Pakistan . An event in which the company will introduce new devices to reach the coveted goal of the "Next Billion" users connected worldwide with smartphones and feature phones.

The evolved S40 phones will have the task of regaining the lost market share from Nokia in Asia. As was the case with recent Asha device which, although designed for emerging markets some of the phones will probably arrive in Europe too.

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Nokia 306 Asha - Manual and new details on the alleged first S40 full-touch device

The Nokia 306 Asha is already past the headlines in recent days thanks to some pictures of the prototype and a user guide, now available for download, thanks to which it emerged more interesting details of the device from operating system that seems to be an evolution of S40 and S60 as it was previously rumored.The Nokia Asha 306 could be the first S40 full-touch smartphone made ​​by the Finnish manufacturer, which showed that the company has serious plans to continue assigning it to develop the platform devices from entry-level. Let's find out new details emerged examining the manual.

The operating system is very similar to that seen on Asha 303, based on S40, but there are interesting news from a drop down menu style Android , callable with a scroll-down (see picture at the beginning). Thanks to the menu you can:

• see if you have missed calls or unread messages
• change the profile, for example, to silence your phone
• open the music player, for example, to pause the currently playing song
• open or close mobile data internet connections
• check for Wi-Fi networks, and connect to them
• switch Bluetooth on or off

The UI described in the manual is divided into three home screens :

• the “My screen” for favorites, contacts and shortcuts
• the “App screen”
• and the “Dialler screen”, which is customizable and can be replaced with music player or radio

The three screens and switching between screens is summarized from the screenshot we propose the following:

In addition to swipe to move between the screens, the touch screens will support multitouch as evidenced by the screenshot below:

The rumors that Nokia was working to establish an evolution of S40 are certainly not new.We have on several occasions referred to Meltemi but not necessarily be the platform described in the manual that we are dealing with.

The Nokia 306 could be made within the first week of July. One of the possible windows to lift the curtain on the device could then be represented by the annual Nokia Connections event held in Asia in late June. At present, however, this information should be considered as mere speculation.

While waiting for further details on the future of the S40 platform, we leave you to draw conclusions by examining the manual can be downloaded by from this address .

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