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Nokia launches smarter Asha 501

New Delhi, May 9: Giving a major thrust to reach the lower end of Google's Android platform, Nokia has launched the Asha 501, a new touchscreen handset that further blurs the line between featurephone and


The Asha 501 gives users the choice of two main screens: Home and Fastlane. Home is a traditional, icon-based view for launching individual apps or accessing a specific feature, like the dialler or phone settings. While the new Fastlane view changes based on device usage, showing things like “recently accessed contacts, social networks and apps.”



The Asha 501 has a 3-inch QVGA screen (320 x 240) covered with hardened glass up front, with an unknown amount of internal storage supplemented by a microSD slot behind the back cover -- a 4GB card is included with every phone.



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