Nokia Asha 305 - New Touch screen and Dual SIM phone with affordable price

Dual SIM phone become so familiar in India. The Dual SIM and touch screen era was started with the invasion of the cheapest Korean and China handsets. 

To compete with these local brands, many Indian companies had started releasing dual SIM and touch screen mobiles. Now Nokia had joined in the competition. But Nokia failed to provide low cost mobiles with rich feature.  To break the talk, Nokia had released the Dual SIM touch screen phone with rich options.   

Nokia Asha 305 - three colors

Nokia released the new Dual SIM phone in the Asha Series. The Nokia Asha 305 has 3.0" full Resistive touch screen with Dual SIM option. This phone comes with the S40 Series OS.  This is the first Smart phone  from Nokia with Dual SIM option. Nokia provides 40 free games from EA Sports and unlimited free music downloads in  Nokia Music. 

Nokia Asha 305

The other features are provided below

GENERAL 2G Network
               GSM 900 / 1800 - SIM 1 & SIM 2

BODY Dimensions 110.3 x 53.8 x 12.8 mm, 66 cc

Weight         98 g

DISPLAY Type TFT resistive touchscreen, 56K colors

Size                 240 x 400 pixels, 3.0 inches (~155 ppi pixel density)

Multitouch Yes

SOUND Vibration, Polyphonic(64), WAV, MP3 ringtones

Loudspeaker Yes

3.5mm jack Yes

MEMORY Card slot microSD, up to 32 GB, 2 GB included

Phonebook Yes, Photocall

Call records Yes

Internal 10 MB, 64 MB ROM, 32 MB RAM

DATA GPRS Yes
            EDGE Yes
       WLAN No

Bluetooth Yes, v2.1 with EDR

USB Yes, microUSB v2.0

CAMERA Primary 2 MP, 1600x1200 pixels

Video Yes, 176x144@10fps

Secondary No

FEATURES Sensors Accelerometer

Messaging SMS, MMS, Email, IM

Browser           Nokia Browser V2.


The price of the mobile was Rs.4650/-.

Nokia X1-01 and Nokia C2-00 - The power of Dual SIM phone from Nokia

As many companies released the dual SIM phones, Nokia is the only company doesn't release the Dual SIM phone series. But the Mobile Giant Nokia also released the Dual SIM Phones. 

They released two models in the Dual SIM series. Nokia X1-01 and Nokia C2-00. Both phones have the battery backup of 43 days. Both the mobiles have the common features like media player , dual SIM, Expandable Memory card.

Nokia X1-01

Nokia X1-01 Front View

Nokia X1-01 comes under the Nokia X – series Mobile model. It is the Music Xpress Edition model. This mobile is especially for the music Lovers. The mobile has the good battery backup. This mobile can play songs for 36 hours. The mobile is designed like the music edition mobiles. The mobile can support up to 16GB memory card. It contains the FM radio and the MP3 Music player. Like the Nokia 1100, this mobile also have the flash light at its head position. For each SIM, we can have the different ringtones. Both the SIM logos will be displayed in the screen and both the SIM’s will work at the same time. We will receive the calls at both the Number at any time.

Nokia X1-01 Side angled View

The only defect in this phone is the camera. The phone does not have the camera. The phone comes with the affordable price to everyone. The cost of the Nokia X1-01 phone is Rs.1900/- only.

Nokia X1-01 Back View

Nokia C2-00

Nokia C2-00

Nokia C2-00 has the advanced features of Nokia X1-01. With the Nokia C2-00, we can connect to the internet, download songs and videos, send and receive e-mails. The mobile comes with the Camera, where we can capture the photos and videos to share our moments. This mobile supports up to 32GB. We can store 1000’s of songs.

Nokia C2-00 Black color

The best feature in the Nokia C2-00 is the design of the SIM card Slot. One slot is place under the Battery, where we need to open the battery to change the SIM. Another SIM will in the side of the phone. We can Insert and remove the SIM card without opening the panel and no need to switch of the phone to change the SIM. This facility is like the memory card slot in the Nokia N8 mobile. The mobile phone has the Mp3 player and the video player facility. We can even download the applications from the Nokia’s Ovi Store. This mobile has the feature of remembering up to 5 SIM cards you insert into the SIM card Slot.

Nokia C2-00 White

The Cost of Nokia C2-00 is around Rs. 3000/-

Growth of Dual SIM Phones

Everyone might be aware of the Dual SIM phones. Dual SIM phones were first introduced by the China made mobiles and the Korean made mobiles. They ruled the Indian mobile market for the more than two years. The reasons for the growth of dual SIM phones are because of its features the mobile companies providing. The Dual SIM mobile phones are coming with the facilities of

1. Camera

2.  MP3/MP4 player

3.  FM receiver with recording

4. Expandable Memory card Slot (Supports upto 4GB)

5. Browsing option

6. Touch Screen

7. Mobile TV

All these facilities came for the price for just Rs. 1500 to Rs. 3000. One year before if we want to buy a mobile with these facilities means we need to spend a minimum of Rs.15000. So many of the people went to this type of china and Korean made mobiles. And another important thing is, In India many of the retail SIM dealers provide the FREE SIM with talk time of rupees 10 to Rs.50. Every one bought more than one SIM for their personal purpose. They used one permanent number and used this kind of free SIM for temporary. When the talk time finishes they just throw the Free SIM and get another SIM. They have to open the Mobile and need to change the SIM every time when they are in need to talk with the Free SIM. For this purpose many people opt for the Dual SIM phones. The Sales of Dual SIM phones were crossed the sales of the single SIM featured mobiles. Because of the Sudden growth of the Dual SIM in the market the leading companies like Nokia, Samsung and Motorola were started the production of the Dual SIM phones. At the beginning Samsung has produced the dual SIM phone for Rs.14000. But that model was a great flop in the mobile market. After that the standard mobile companies also started producing the Dual SIM phones at low cost ranging starts from Rs. 2000. Nowadays all the leading mobile companies are releasing the Dual SIM phones with new facilities. The Dual SIM phones occupied the mobile market in a Short period of time.

Dual SIM Phone 

Nokia's new Dual SIM Phones

As of today every owns minimum of two numbers for their privacy. One for their business and another for their personal use.People are showing interest to buy the duall sim phones more than having two phones. People like to use a single Sual SIM mobile instead of using two mobile phones. People need the Dual SIM mobile with the additional features like Mp3, Mp4, Video player and Digital camera.The Korean made models and the China made models Satisfied the customers with upsaid features. They ruled the Indian mobile market for the past 2 years. With competition the branded mobiles like Samsung, Fly, LG had released their Dual SIM mobile models. Nokia is the only branded mobile company that never released the Dual SIM mobile models, but still they rocked in the mobile market with their new features with the excellent battery backups. Now thay also ready to release their Dual SIM phones. Till now thay have confirmed with the 4 Dual SIM models where one model is released and the other 3 are expexted to release by October. They are releasing with the 3 kind of categories. One targeted to the people who just need the Dual SIM facility with no other extra facility. The Model is C1-00. This model is as like the Nokia Basic model Nokia 1616. Exact the same design with the FM. The Price for this model is 1799 INR. This phone has the Battery backup for 6 weeks and the talk time is for upto 13 hours. The C1-01 and C1-02 comes with the same feature of Fm, Mp3 player, microSD slot and VGA camera and with 64MB internal memory for C1-01 and 64Mb user memory for C1-02. Both the models can expandable upto 32GB.The C2-00 model comes with 64MB internal memory with 16MB flash memory. Memory is expandable upto 32GB.

Get ready for the new era of Dual SIM models from Nokia.