Nokia Asha 501, the company's latest attempt at out-innovating the low end smartphone market, was launched today in New Delhi and we got some fair play time with the device. Based on the new Nokia Asha platform, the device was previously demoed by Nokia's Peter Skillman, who led the whole effort of bringing the intuitive N9 UI to the low end. After a healthy hands on time with the device, we can't withhold ourselves from telling you about this device. But before that, here is a complete overview of the device -
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0MgZbZObE7s
If you haven't read our earlier Nokia Asha 501 posts, you must, now -
Asha 501 Hands on
Photo Gallery
Interview with Peter Skillman
And now, our first impressions of the device. There is one thing that stood out from the presentation and that was the software, so lets start with that!
No more series 40!
This has been a long time coming. Lets go back a couple of years. After the Nokia N9 was declared the only Meego device ever, Marko Ahtisaari, the Design head at Nokia said that the swipe UI will live on, but days and months passed without any information on how it is going to endure at Nokia. Then ...
Nokia Asha 501, the company's latest attempt at out-innovating the low end smartphone market, was launched today in New Delhi and we got some fair play time with the device. Based on the new Nokia Asha platform, the device was previously demoed by Nokia's Peter Skillman, who led the whole effort of bringing the intuitive N9 UI to the low end. After a healthy hands on time with the device, we can't withhold ourselves from telling you about this device. But before that, here is a complete overview of the device -
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0MgZbZObE7s
If you haven't read our earlier Nokia Asha 501 posts, you must, now -
Asha 501 Hands on
Photo Gallery
Interview with Peter Skillman
And now, our first impressions of the device. There is one thing that stood out from the presentation and that was the software, so lets start with that!
No more series 40!
This has been a long time coming. Lets go back a couple of years. After the Nokia N9 was declared the only Meego device ever, Marko Ahtisaari, the Design head at Nokia said that the swipe UI will live on, but days and months passed without any information on how it is going to endure at Nokia. Then ...