Nokia Asha 311

Nokia Asha 311 review: Nokia Asha 311

The Nokia Asha 311 may be the most easy to use Series 40 device ever made, but it's still saddled with legacy baggage that throws up cryptic error messages and annoying confirmation requests far too often to make it pleasing to use. This old technology just isn't a serious competitor to all the slick budget Androids. Considering how much noise Nokia makes about its Microsoft partnership these days, you'd be forgiven for thinking all its phones ran Windows Phone. Au contraire. Nokia is still making a Series 40-based line of cheaper, basic smart phones primarily aimed at budget-conscious mobile users -- its Asha range of handsets.

Meet the Nokia Asha 311, Nokia's attempt to end the war between smartphones and "dumbphones". This 3-inch touchscreen phone packs a 1GHz processor, 3G and Wi-Fi for location skills, but it's running Nokia's power sipping S40 operating system, which you probably last saw on that ageing Nokia candybar...

Nokia Asha 311 Review: In Depth

Nokia is still a major player in mobiles thanks primarily to the sheer volume of feature phones in peoples hands around the world. These feature phone run an interface called S40, an interface designed around buttons in the 90s.

Nokia Asha 311 Review

Nokia's Asha 311 is the flagship handset in its trio of ‘Full Touch' phones, which also include the Asha 305 and Asha 306. Having just reviewed the Asha 305 , the 311 is quite similar to it except it also offers better features like a capacitive screen, Wi-Fi etc. for a little more.

Nokia Asha 311 Review

The Nokia Asha 311 has arrived in our office and we received it with mixed feelings. It's part of the Asha lineup, a series of feature phones that is largely keeping Nokia afloat at the moment as it struggles selling enough Windows Phone smartphones.

Nokia has always been creating magic in the market with its low budget and user-friendly phones. This time Nokia is going to release Asha 311 very soon. This time is expected to be very effective in terms of performance and attractive in terms of appearance.

Nokia Asha 311 Review

The Nokia Asha 311 might be the top handset in the range but it won't cut it in the current market.  The Series 40 operating system feels like old technology, polished to look like an Android, yet for the same money or less, you could pick up a higher specced ‘droid with access to the vastly

This one should not be compared to a smartphone. For me, it was a personal decision, I wanted a small sized feature phone, not a smartphone. I am happy with this phone.

Nokia Asha 311 review

For an extra £20 the Asha 311 throws in quite a few advantages over the cheaper 306 , with a better screen, faster processing power and 3G connectivity -- if you must have a budget feature phone rather than an Android, it's worth the extra.

Good or bad depends on your needs.

I didn't buy this on Amazon India but I own this same model. This was the first Asha phone to have 3G connection, 3G has better signal reception than 2G in addition to it's more speed. This is a GSM phone and requires a normal sized SIM.