10 things you need to know about the Nokia Asha 311

Published by Joel Willans on March 15, 2013

Nokia Asha 311

When it comes to smartphone names, you’ll be hard pressed to find one more apt than Asha. The Hindi word for hope, the Asha family of phones has been especially created for those people aspiring to enjoy smartphone functionality at an affordable price. The Asha 311 does this in a host of wonderful ways. To see for yourself check out these ten Asha facts and features you probably didn’t know about. 

1. It has a 3-inch scratch resistant capacitive glass screen with polarization filters. This means you’re guaranteed a silky smooth and accurate touch screen experience and you can read it in the sun. Double win!

Asha311

2. The Asha 311 is powered by a 1GHz processor with  Wi-Fi, 3G and HSPA, for a surprisingly zippy performance.

3. If you love gaming you’re in for a treat. The Asha 311 comes pre loaded with fifteen levels of everyone’s favourite game, Angry Birds.  

Angry Birds on Asha 311 

4. And if that wasn’t good enough, the Asha 311 comes with an exclusive EA games gift worth €75. It enables you to download 40 EA games titles including classics like Need for Speed The Run and Bejeweled.

5. If you’re anything like us, you like to get the low down on what’s up with your friends and family. The Asha 311 sates our craving for this connection with social apps like WhatsApp, Facebook Chat, GTalk, Yahoo and MSN etc.

Nokia Asha 311

Nokia Asha 311

 6. We all love mobile surfing. Happily the Asha 311 has a cloud accelerated Nokia Browser, which is up to five times faster and uses up to 90% less data than other smartphones. Pretty nifty.

7. In some markets, you can also discover, share and get to where you want to go easier with Nokia Maps preloaded.

8. To keep you entertained while out and about, the Asha 311 has a Music Player, FM Radio and Internet Radio. It’s also really simple to plug and play to your PC to transfer  music and other files.

 9.Thanks to Facebook and Twitter being preloaded, it’s super easy to stay super social with the Asha 311. 

Twitter on the Nokia Asha 311

10. There’s nothing worse than your smartphone losing power on you. Thankfully, the Asha 311 has an incredible 29 days standby and 14hrs talk time.

Know any other interesting facts or features about the Asha 311? We’d love to hear about them in the comments below.

Comments

  • http://eve-c.org EveConnected

    Which arevthevrestrictions for Music? Mine hasn’t such an option.

  • M.Beg

    Why would anyone want to know about 311?

  • Kil’jaeden

    Asha, a better smartphone than Windows Phone.

    • http://www.facebook.com/people/Amir-Lukmanhisyam/100000239066933 Amir Lukmanhisyam

      nice head-shot buddy

      • Erkki Ruohtula

        Some weeks ago I bought a Lumia 710 to finally replace my old N97 mini. I seriously considered the Asha, but I wanted a better camera than the Asha had. Despite the WP7, the Lumia works better than I expected, the UI is quite pleasant. The main drawback has been a short battery life. Maybe I still need to get an Asha for longer travels…

        • http://www.facebook.com/people/Amir-Lukmanhisyam/100000239066933 Amir Lukmanhisyam

          I got N9 and bought myself 620 to check out WP8 and what I get is a total downgrade especially in term of multitasking. Luckily I still got my N9 with me at least it cure my disappointment. Looking forward for non-Lumia smartphones from Nokia as Lumia all look the same inside (the OS). If not most probably I’ll jump ship.

  • http://twitter.com/satyam384 satya

    but no updates for this phone waiting from long back.
    the basic feature copy paste and brightness adjusting option not there. !!!!

  • Diazene

    “excelerated” ?

  • Marc_Aurel

    I have one as a secondary phone, and yes it’s pretty nice phone for the price. The screen is great and everything happens fast. I have to agree, though, that cut’n'paste should be added if Nokia really wants to call it (and other Asha Touch phones) ‘smartphones’.

  • ravi

    its a great handset but plz add copy paste option

    • leomate

      I think s40 devices never got copy paste system. If they do, thet had do at long time ago. See 1st symbian devices 7650 has copy paste feature ;)

      • http://www.facebook.com/alexusshadowwings Alexus Pastrana

        my c1-01 has copy paste..:)

        • leomate

          Do you refer files manager or text?

          • http://www.facebook.com/alexusshadowwings Alexus Pastrana

            ah so you mean copy and paste files, not text..sorry..silly me..never used a symbian..:)

          • leomate

            No problem mate. :)

            Actually i don’t have s40 devices by my self. I usually tired with my friends many devices variant and the frustrated parts is never got copy paste text feature at s40 until now. Maybe it would never happened. Except at opera mini, but you can’t do it outside opera mini. So sad…

            My first device is symbian powered nokia phone and i still use it for waiting my phone repaired :)

  • http://www.facebook.com/Murtza.Arzai Prince Yuvraaj

    Can’t access facebook via social app….so point 5 is wrong.other browsers like opera & uc are much better and faster than NOKIA BROWSER so point 6 is also wrong…point 9 & 5 both are same and not working….

  • SLR

    you should make 3.2 or 3.5″ screen ashas. 3.0″ is way too small.

    • leomate

      I suggest you to use 701 instead. Nice 3.5″ Screen

  • florin

    vrem la toate felurile ca telefoane nokia sa tina bateria 4-5 zile, comvorbire 2 zile de intrat pe internet 1 zii si jumate si ascultat muzica 24 ore iar eu cum vb si ascult muzica in 2 zile se descarca bateria nui corect ce faceti

  • http://www.facebook.com/jatin.aries Jatin Barbhaya

    i am fan of NOKIA but with Asha 311 my experience very worst with this handset very very slow WI-FI connectivity and also bad OS Symbian belly specially scroll down upper window bar is too complicated while in a same range Samsung having good handsets of 2.3 Android gingerbread OS and Touch wiz

    • leomate

      Actually it’s not symbian. It’s s40 devices :-/

  • http://twitter.com/heyychoi Anna JVega

    the screen is too small.

  • http://www.facebook.com/dgsivam Gnanasivam D Murugesan

    Is this dual sim mobile?

  • LIVIO

    MAU AO ESCREVER SMS…

  • http://twitter.com/huzaif786 Hujefa Shakir

    Do it support Temple run? Why its very slow and shows memory full when i receive 100 and more messages. Games you are talking about you can get is free if you want some mail me. it does not support 3rd party sis file. No themes support.. there is not wallpaper.. No shortcuts.. This is a dumb device

  • http://www.facebook.com/alexusshadowwings Alexus Pastrana

    wish a 3.5″ Asha..:)

  • John

    The specs are too low for developers to develop better apps for it, what s waste…

  • http://www.facebook.com/rolando.nicolas.948 Rolando Nicolas

    it’s a”Best Choice”

  • http://www.facebook.com/harold.too.1 Laplana Lasafin

    magkano ang nokia asha 311?

  • Mushtaq

    The most horrible fone I have come across. I purchased the same around a year back. It came with a manufacturing defect. It lost network connectivity frequently and would regain network after rebooting. Customer Care is even more worse. My fone lay with Cust Care (Negligence) dept for around 20 days. Repeated reminders and mails were just ignored. After 20 days the fone was returned in the same condition. I have to reboot the fone very often, and I have learnt, this issue is not confined to mine alone. It hangs n hangs. Itz very slow. I regret purchasing NOKIA.