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Counterclockwise: remembering the not-quite-smartphone Asha phones Comments

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  • Anonymous
  • YM3D
  • 14 Jan 2018

HMD please bring back the Asha and the Lumia phones.
Please release high quality polycarbonate colourful phones with affordable prices.

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  • king
  • vgNh
  • 14 Jan 2018

Nokia c5 qwerty/candy bar with s40/s60 OS. Asha not stable

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  • PapaPerez
  • gM{P
  • 14 Jan 2018

Lightning McQueen, 14 Jan 2018I hope HMD/Nokia should revive the Asha phones. This will strengthen the market share to make ... moreAndroid GO is *not so good* compared to Asha OS? Dude, you for real? xD

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  • Emirsays
  • NueJ
  • 14 Jan 2018

I still have the 302 series here.. Nice one

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  • lemonodasos 1978
  • HB3f
  • 14 Jan 2018

Anonymous, 14 Jan 2018Old mobile phone designs had different personalities. Now all phones look alike. Great comment,i agree.

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  • Anonymous
  • KZKq
  • 14 Jan 2018

HMD global please revive the Meltemi for Asha 🙏🙏

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  • Anonymous
  • teqd
  • 14 Jan 2018

Old mobile phone designs had different personalities. Now all phones look alike.

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  • Spinalonga1903-1957
  • HB3f
  • 14 Jan 2018

Spinalonga1903-1957, 14 Jan 2018Nokia Asha 302 had the best build quality Nokia Asha 501 was the first ever asha phone Nokia... moreNokia asha 501 was the first asha phone that came with new asha software
platform with MeeGo elements!

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  • Spinalonga1903-1957
  • HB3f
  • 14 Jan 2018

Nokia Asha 302 had the best build quality
Nokia Asha 501 was the first ever asha phone
Nokia Asha 210 was the most beautiful asha qwerty phone especially cyan & yellow.

But i think that the most practical asha phone was 303 Qwerty with touchscreen.
I have used it for over 3 years.The design was weird combining elements from candybar phones & Qwerty phones also.Very capable phone including 3G,
Wi-Fi,WhatsApp,YouTube,nice loudspeaker,2.6'' Inches display,S40 and a good battery.

Nokia asha series included many good phones.

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  • Rayne
  • ibp9
  • 14 Jan 2018

Where's Nokia asha 210?

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  • onlyREAL
  • n$4j
  • 14 Jan 2018

Last line of this topic was right: Nokia lost the reason to exist.

- and i dont know why they still exist, is no more the same Nokia, never will be because Nokia lost their home country, their home workers and now live in China with all the same looking people.

So, Nokia you could dir...i never remember you because i never like yoi anyway.

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  • mvGK
  • 14 Jan 2018

Never been interested in Nokia
But bought SonyEricssons version of a Asha 303, the M1 Aspen, a real smartphone with WM6.5.3 which I still got, but haven't touch the Aspen for years.
But with it's tiny screen, even smaller keyboard, weak cpu and on top of it the cumbersome MS WinMobile.
It was totally unusable as both a hand/pocket computer and as a cellphone.
I guess these phone was some kind of milestones tough for road to smartphones that will replace home computer one day sooner or later.

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  • Anonymous
  • fmWL
  • 14 Jan 2018

Nokia was invincible in their time because they were damn strong, reliable and did most of the basics right, which was required by the end users. Price wise they were not really cheap but reliable. And that is the reason which took Nokia to the heights. If they want to do the same, they need to go back to their roots of reliability.

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  • Lightning McQueen
  • YUT7
  • 14 Jan 2018

I hope HMD/Nokia should revive the Asha phones. This will strengthen the market share to make the foundation stronger and selling it well. But reviving that will take a long time to get back it's Asha OS.


I know that there is Android GO which is new, better and efficient, but it's still not so good compared to that Asha OS. So it will better if HMD/Nokia could make a slight upgrade compared to the original Asha OS that it does not have that new feature.



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  • ZloiYuri
  • 352b
  • 14 Jan 2018

Abud yaish, 14 Jan 2018Nokia n95 8gb was best phone ever. I have Samsung s7E and a used Nokia n97 still works fine un... moreSome people sticked in past and weird fantasies

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  • PapaPerez
  • gM{D
  • 14 Jan 2018

'ASHA Series' which indirectly means dumping junk in the Indian market for $40 extra while milking the Nokia brand name. This will burn just like Nokia's Androids which are quite simply, disappointing, along with an added $40 price tag.

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  • Anonymous
  • Fhtt
  • 14 Jan 2018

Abud yaish, 14 Jan 2018Nokia n95 8gb was best phone ever. I have Samsung s7E and a used Nokia n97 still works fine un... moreIt was badly built trash

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  • JackTheIPhoneKiller
  • KIBi
  • 14 Jan 2018

Nokia Asha 303. Damn that was one really practical and durable phone. Kept it for 2 years and punished it in the harshest possible way, yet it managed to stay with me for as long as it could.

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  • Vineet290
  • gN@h
  • 14 Jan 2018

I was using Nokia 6600, that was bigger and bulkier than my Toilet soap, With VGA camera that was the flagship of that time. Its TVC was themed on 'phones are not just talking' , more than that.

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  • Phonergamer
  • rJBe
  • 14 Jan 2018

I'm waiting for the N Series comeback, what beautiful designs

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