Asha is the new name of Nokia's entry level phone lineup. The Asha 303, which we recently reviewed, succeeds the Nokia C3. The Asha 300 in turn is an obvious descendant of the C3-01. Interestingly, while the QWERTY-enabled Asha 303 upgrades its predecessor in almost every way, the Asha 300 looks and feels like a downgrade. That should make it even more affordable, but let's see what you get relative to what you pay for. One of the great values of Series 40 phones has always been the excellent battery life they offer. This is also very much the case with this handset. Nokia claims up to 597 hours – almost 25 days – of standby time and up to 6.9 hours of talk time. During testing we found these results accurate in everyday use.

The “chromed” call keys above the keypad are coupled with a hardware messaging button, which opens a shortcut to either text messaging or conversations. It also keeps the weight down. The compromise is that we can’t help but feel that the final design is not quite as eye-catching as the C3-01. In terms of size, this is a small and compact handset. Built around a 2.4-inch screen it weighs just 85g and sits neatly in the palm of the hand. The 2.4" resistive TFT touchscreen is a tad smaller than the 303’s, but has the same QVGA resolution. At ~167 ppi the 300 has a slightly better pixel density of the two, but like its older brother, the image quality is nothing to get excited about.

Nokia Asha 300 - Technical Overview

The Nokia Asha 300 may not exactly fit in with today’s standards of newsworthy. With smartphones flexing their muscles at venues like CES, sporting ever-expanding app markets, HD screens and multi-core processors, it’s hard to see how an entry-level offering could produce much of a splash. Even in this age of smartphones, Nokia still sells a huge amount of entry-level feature-phones, mainly to emerging markets. Under its Asha brand, which launched in 2011, it launched a line of feature-phones which are very much the entry-level devices of the company and put affordability and value ahead of cutting-edge features. At 112.8 x 49.5 x 12.7 mm, the Asha 300 is significantly lighter and more compact than the QWERTY-enabled Asha 303. In fact, at 85g, it weighs considerably less than the steel-clad Nokia C3-01.

Below are the mobile phones in the Asha range. None of the Asha models have GPS functionality. All Asha phones included an FM radio.The camera specifications of the phone are very captivating. Features on the rear camera setup include 4 x Digital Zoom This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Nokia Asha 205 Specifications - Nokia". www.microsoft.com. Archived from the original on 29 November 2014. The Asha 300 walks that fine precipice between designing a phone that is contemporary, yet aims to appeal mainly to an audience where being contemporary is not as important as being simple and not too expensive.