The Nokia Asha 300 was recently announced at Nokia World 2011 and packs both touch and keyboard functionality into its sleek and colourful candybar design. We’ve been taking a look to bring you all the official specifications and photos.
The Nokia Asha 300 is a Series 40 candybar phone and comes in a choice of black or red. As well as its standard keypad, it also features a bright 2.4-inch transmissive LCD touchscreen display, with a QVGA 320 x 240-pixel resolution. Offering a choice of control methods, you can select options onscreen with a tap of your finger and then send a text message using the hardware keypad.
The Nokia Asha 300 measures 112.8 x 49.5 x 12.7mm and weighs just 85g, making it perfect for slipping into your pocket. With 140MB of storage offered as standard, you can store a small amount of music and photos out of the box, but the Asha 300 also supports Micro SD cards, letting you upgrade storage to as much as 32GB, for carrying larger multimedia collections.
The Nokia Asha 300 is fitted with a rear-facing camera, which features a 5-Megapixel sensor and captures photos up to a resolution of 2592 x 1944 pixels. It also features a 4x digital zoom and lets you record video at 640 x 480 pixels and a frame rate of 30 frames per second. You can also play back videos in WMV, MPEG-4, H.264/AVC and 3GPP formats (H.263) at 20 frames per second, to stay entertained when you’re out and about.
Music fans can enjoy listening to songs via the Nokia Asha 300’s integrated mono speaker or the included Nokia WH-102 Stereo Headset. Audio file format support includes AAC, AAC+, AMR-NB, AMR-WB, HE-AAC v2, MIDI Tones (poly 64), Mobile XMF, MP3, MP4, NRT, True tones, WAV and WMA. The Asha 300 also features a built-in stereo FM radio with RDS.
When you want to get connected to your laptop, PC or tablet, or even your friend’s phones, the Nokia Asha 300 features Bluetooth 2.1 technology for wireless connections and a Micro USB port for setting up fixed connections. And as if all it’s other features weren’t enough, all Nokia Asha 300’s also come with the ever-popular Angry Birds Lite game pre-installed.
Finally, Nokia claims the Asha 300’s battery offers up to 6.9 hours of talk time, 28 hours of music play back, 6 hours of video playback and as much as 597 hours of standby time. The Nokia Asha 300 is set for release in the run up to Christmas with an estimated retail price of around 85 Euros, excluding tax.
Take a closer look at the Nokia Asha 300 in our photo gallery below:
