Nokia Asha 300: Low Cost Feature Phone

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The Nokia Asha 300 is a simple feature phone, not a smart phone, so if you're looking for something to download apps galore on to, you're much better off getting an Android. However if you're in the market for a simple touchscreen phone that makes calling and texting easy, and even comes pre-installed with Angry Birds Lite, then it's worth checking out the great phone deals you can get on the Asha 300.

Display

The Nokia Asha 300 houses an alphanumeric keypad, ala mobile phones of bygone eras, but it still has a touchscreen for it's 2.4 in. display. That size of screen is fine for budget phones of this type but there is a problem with the touchscreen, in that it is resistive rather than capacitive. In effect what this means is that you're going to have to work a little bit harder to get things moving at your fingertips. If you're not careful it's easy to accidentally open an app when you are just trying to swipe somewhere else.

That's a shame because the phone is run by a 1GHz processor, which is more than a lot of lower end Android phones. The fact is though that you don't really feel that processing power in the speed of the phone most of the time.

Instead of Android you get Nokia Series 40 OS and it works fine, but as we say if you're looking for something that is highly customisable and that has access to a number of different apps then you'd be better with an Android or iOS device.

No Wi-Fi

The most disappointing thing about what is a fine phone otherwise, is that there is no wi-fi capability. It does connect to the internet though, through 3G services. If you want to use it on your wireless network at home however, that's not going to be possible.

In terms of web browsing with the 3G though, it is quite fast, as you would expect with a 1GHz processor running the phone.

Extras

You will find everything else you would expect from a feature phone on the Asha 300, including a bit more actually. A 5 megapixel camera, for instance, is an unexpected bonus. And as mentioned, it is one of the first phones to have a version of Angry Birds pre-installed. There's a music player of course, although not much room to store music with only 140MB internal storage. Having said that however you can purchase a microSD card to increase that up to 32GB.

You can find the full specs on the Nokia website.

Summary

If it weren't for the lack of wi-fi and a resistive rather than capacitive touchscreen, the review for this modern feature phone would be unreservedly positive. If you are able to see past these flaws then it's still a nice little simple phone, and it's well worth checking out some of the amazingly low Nokia Asha 300 black monthly contract deals that are available online.