Stephen Elop just announced the new Nokia Asha 501 on the stage of the Nokia press in India. It’s the first product of the new generation Ashas with a brand new platform. The design is inspired by Lumia and Nokia picked red as the signature color.
The new Asha platform is based on the SmarterPhone acquisition Nokia made a few years ago. The new interface focuses on swipe events and a new feature called Fastlane.



The Nokia Asha 501 is made of only two parts to make it more durable and cheaper to manufacture. The back is removable to access the microSIM, the pre-installed 4GB microSD card (up to 32GB supported) and the battery.
The phone packs a 3" QVGA capacitive touchscreen on the front (133ppi), it supports two finger multitouch. On the back, there's 3.2MP fixed-focus camera.

The new Asha platform is a grandchild of the MeeGo OS. The phone wakes up with a double tap. It features two home screens - one is Fastlane, the other one is the app drawer.

Fastlane promises to show your present and your past. Present includes currently running apps (yes, multitasking, hell froze over), while Past shows messages and other notifications you’ve received.

The Nokia Asha 501 focuses on 2G connectivity as large parts of emerging markets still rely on the slow mobile Internet. There are two apps to help with that - the Xpress browser compresses traffic and Xpress Now that recommends content based location, preferences and trending topics. Also, a partnership with Facebook and Airtel (Not Nigeria) ensures people can access the social network for free, even without a data plan (this will be for a limited time only).

The Nokia Asha 501 features Wi-Fi connectivity for faster local data transfers, plus Bluetooth 3.0 and microUSB 2.0. 3G-enabled Asha 5xx phones will launch later.

The new Nokia Asha OS will be a very social platform with Facebook, Foursquare, Linkedin, Twitter, Youtube and more available out of box.

There's going to be a dual-SIM version too. The second SIM card is exchangeable without having to remove the battery, a feature Nokia was keen to point out is unique to them.

The Nokia Asha 501 measures 99.2 x 58 x 12.1mm and weighs 98g.

The new Asha platform promises to be very efficient - the 1,200mAh battery in the Asha 501 is enough for up to 17 hours of talk time and 48 days of standby (26 days for the dual-SIM).

The Nokia Asha 501 will start shipping in June in 90 countries on 60 operators. It will cost $99 before taxes and subsidies for the single-SIM version.

- GSMArena.com

Read specifications:- http://www.naijatech.com/phones/nokia-asha-501-specifications-and-price

Dnt be surprise........... This might cost 23K
Anoda high priced Nokia device!!!
*FLUSH*

nice...i tink nokia iz gettin back on track

Nice!! Buh, cant they Produce an Android Phone??

2G crap... Nokia should wake up. What is the big deal in making it 3G.

Tecno N3 is better anyday

Thank God for tecno,nokia would have limit some people to java phones.....can't they wake up for once,people are shouting android they keep shouting asha. asha ko parrot ni

Nice...!!!!

ZUBY77: 2G crap... Nokia should wake up. What is the big deal in making it 3G.

Tecno N3 is better anyday

making it 3G will make it costlier than the present price. Call it business sense. Techno N3? I need to check it out.

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Tecno Q1 rocks... Enough of this nokia craps.

They Asha away, i Andrōid away.. Provides me HSPDA network, tether wifi, GPS at an affordable price and Nokia's giving Asha at that price? I know e go reach like #22000...

Godvilla: Dnt be surprise........... This might cost 23K
Anoda high priced Nokia device!!!
*FLUSH*

True!!!

People are now wiser for it, samsung and techno will deliver the same and more options for far lesser price!

hehehehe...ds ppl dey dul...I hv infinix wot 18k android 4 dat mata nd mak I go buy java..java fone 4 20k.:-) packs

RiKKies001:

making it 3G will make it costlier than the present price. Call it business sense. Techno N3? I need to check it out.

It is far way better compared to Asha...

asha wat!!! Try techno N7 for just 29k,daul sim android+galaxy built in one

Touch screen!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I still prefer phones with keypads any day.

But seriously I can't drop blackberry for any of this shyte!

How much data plan I wan dey buy within a month?

Asha again u no fit produce sometin reasonable check samsung,Iphone,u guys start togeder..not even talking of techno..asha koor,Adan ni...

At last sleeping nokia wakes up

But seriously Nokia is just loosing touch day by day. They are fast loosing touch relevance with dis asha feature phone trash. Android is d inthing today. Rubbish phones with pocket tearing prices.

Another over hyped nokia product......

Nokia shuld upgrade nd make their prices lesser

For moi,its NOKIA anyday!

una nor dey read....$99 = #14,000 dats the price of the phone...

Nokia should follow this up with an app market for this platform so that popular and local apps can be created to draw and keep consumers apart from the price and design.

lord.spiritual:
una nor dey read....$99 = #14,000 dats the price of the phone...

So, i shuld abandon The new Tecno P3 dual core(Android) which cost the same 14K for dis Asha

Godvilla: So, i shuld abandon The new Tecno P3 dual core(Android) which cost the same 14K for dis Asha

not everyone wants to use a chinese phone...

lord.spiritual:
una nor dey read....$99 = #14,000 dats the price of the phone...

Na u no understand what u read, they said before taxes and subsidies. so it will be more than $99 when it gets to naija

The Nokia Asha 501 will start shipping in June
in 90 countries on 60 operators. It will cost
$99 before taxes and subsidies for the single-
SIM version.

django1:

True!!!

People are now wiser for it, samsung and techno will deliver the same and more options for far lesser price!

Samsung? Techno?

This is an advert and it violates Seun's commandments.

As for me and my household, we shall always abide by TECNO