Fastlane

Nokia Asha 501

At an event in New Delhi, Nokia CEO Stephen Elop unveiled the latest phone in the company's Asha series - the Asha 501. The Asha 501 runs on a new software platform.
The Asha 501 has a 3-inch QVGA TFT capacitive display and includes 128 MB of inbuilt flash memory and includes a 4GB memory card and the memory is expandable up to 32GB.
The Asha 501 has been launched at a price of $99 and should be available in India at about Rs 5,500 from June. The phone will be launched via 60 operators in 90 countries.

Design and Colours

First thing to notice about the blazing Nokia Asha 501 is its gorgeous design. Their shape are maintained nice compact and clean. After you’ve admired the durable two-part construction with the removable monobody, the next thing you will checkout is it rich color.

The Nokia Asha 501 is available in bright red, bright green, cyan, yellow, white and black.

The colour story continues with the red headphones that are included in the box. It’s sure to become a signature look!

Nokia Asha platform

The Asha 501 is powered by a new software platform, which fully leverages Nokia’s investments in Smarterphone, which it acquired in 2012 and builds on the best aspects of Series 40 to create something fresh and innovative.The result is an evolutionary operating system that is fast, responsive and easy to use.The Asha platform is faster, more responsive and more flexible too. This means new features and functionalities can be anticipated with future updates.Developers will be able to create apps for the Nokia Asha 501 that will also be compatible with future Asha platform-based devices.

Fastlane?

Perhaps we don’t always realize it but technology, and how we interact with it, has fundamentally changed our lives. Delivering great products with an extreme focus on the thoughtful details around the things that we do every day with our phones. Key to this on the new Asha platform is an exciting new feature called Fastlane. This is how designer describes it:

“With Fastlane you can see your present, you can scroll down to see your past and you can pull down to see the future. It’s sort of a historical timeframe of past, present and future all in the one place.”

It tracks all of your behaviours and helps to gather your connected life, so you can go back at any point and access information without necessarily being stuck in application silos.Think of Fastlane as a second homescreen, or a shortcut that brings together all your recent apps, messages and content. It’s all the things that you did most recently, and all the things you do most often.

Smarter Internet

An era where people love to access internet in their mobile phone than any other kind of electronic device.This is why the Asha 501 continues Nokia’s focus on the ‘smarter Internet’ with an updated version of the Nokia Xpress browser with a fresh new user experience.Of course, it still uses cloud-compression technology to reduce data by up to 90 per cent, making it both faster and cheaper for people to get online.

Hardware matters

Straight out of the box, there is Facebook, Twitter, instant messaging and Weather Channel apps installed, together with premium games from Gameloft, such as Big Little City and Real Football 2013.There’s also the now-legendary offer of 40 Free EA Games for you to download and keep forever from the Nokia Store.The Asha 501 will be the first Nokia device at such a low price point to use a micro-SIM. Furthermore, it will come in a single-SIM variant and a Dual-SIM version with Nokia’s unique Easy-Swap SIM technology, which allows people to switch SIM cards without having to power off the device.It features a 3.2-megapixel camera, WiFi, a lock screen with a glanceable clock and the 3-inch capacitive screen is made out of hardened glass. There’s 4GB of internal memory and support for a micro-SD card up to 32GB.

The battery life offers an incredible 48 days in standby and 17 hours of talk time – that means you could talk from 7am to midnight non-stop!