Besides issuing high-end phones like the N9, 800 and other Lumia, does not mean forgetting your Nokia mobile phone production to consumers who have a limited budget. As there is currently a Touch and Type phone design, Nokia named Asha 303. Although intended for low-end but this phone already has a specification that is qualified. By priced around USD 1.4 million dollars, if the phone is worth to you have? Please refer to our review below.
Main Specifications:
Network Quad Band GSM, WCDMA Band Penta
2.6-inch capacitive touch screen, 240x320 pixels
1 GHz processor
The internal memory of 170 MB, 256 ROM, 128 RAM
Nokia s40 operating system
Camera 3.2 MP 2048x1536 pixel Fixed Focus
Wi-Fi 802.11 b / g / n
Battery 1300 mAh
Design and Body
Asha 303 Nokia design is quite revolutionary, combining QWERTY keyboard with a touch screen in a candybar form. If at first glance this looks like a 303 Asha-shaped slider phone because the phone over the upper half arises from the QWERTY keyboard. On the back of the curved shape so comfortable to grip. Despite having two color variants for Indonesia (red and gray), but for the display and four function keys still use black. The phone has dimensions of 116.5 x 55.7 x 13.9 mm and weighs just 99 grams, light enough to carry. Almost all plastic body, except the backdoor which is made of aluminum alloy.
The face of the earpiece there, proximity sensors, capacitive touchscreen 256K color 2.6-inch sized (maximum one-touch), four function keys (call, message, music, end call) as well as notification lights in the middle, a QWERTY keyboard. Rear contained 3.2 MP resolution camera on the top and a loudspeaker and microphone at the bottom.
The left side is only a hole for the strap. The right side there are volume buttons and button lock.
Interface
This phone uses Nokia's operating system that is s40, such as his trademark, this phone can not do multitasking (except music). It looks almost the same with Nokia type of touch and other types such as Nokia X3-02.
For the initial view as you can customize the widget, for quick access. You can also turn off the Home screen mode, if you feel uncomfortable. Signal and battery indicator located on the top left, and the profile name of the service are below. To change the profile name of the article simply touch an existing profile. The bottom there are buttons Go to separately access to various menus that have been selected, the menu button to enter the main menu, and the names to see your phone book.
The main menu consists of the arrangement of icons that have colorful designs such as icons in OS Meego. You can change the menu view to List or Grid.
Contacts
Fairly extensive contacts capacity, can accommodate up to 1000 numbers. There are also features like caller groups, many numbers per contact, display the first or last name, Picture ID, Ring ID.
Messaging
Asha 303 Nokia phones can send SMS or MMS messages either. To send an MMS, you simply enter the desired multimedia content, the message is automatically sent as an MMS. Conversations can be displayed with your message threading style chat or view Inbox as usual.
Menu in the messaging chat is also entered to conduct instant messaging conversations. QWERTY keyboard for typing quite comfortable to use because of its texture that arises so easily suppressed. However, some buttons feel firm when pressed.
For the email menu, there is a separate menu. Asha email feature on the Nokia 303 already supports push feature, so you will receive emails in real time as SMS.
Camera
This phone is equipped with a 3.2 MP camera 2048x1536 pixels resolution unfortunately has no autofocus feature. There are features zoom, self timer, frames, effects, white balance, sequence, exposure, grid, settings, organize, and defaults to return to the initial setting.
Results camera for indoor shooting quite well, not a lot of annoying noise. As for outdoor displays with good results also, the color is quite bright and not over-brightness.
Video Recorder
For video recording, Nokia Asha 303 can record video with VGA resolution (640x480) 15fps. Recording results in the form of video formats 3gp. Here are the results of a video recording of Asha 303.
Music and Video
The music menu has three sub menus namely my music, nokia music, and radio. The music player can play in Asha 303 music files with a common format, like mp3, m4a, wma. You can select songs based on sorting to Arist, albums, genres. Videos can also be played through my music menu. Album art can be displayed while the song is played. There is also an equalizer to adjust the sound output as well as shuffle and repeat options. You can perform other activities on your phone without having to turn off the music you're playing. Already, there are some songs that are already on the memory card, and you can download other music from nokia music store.
Nokia music menu is a shortcut to the nokia music store where you can download songs for free choice.
For a video player, the Nokia Asha 303 can play 3gp format files, and mp4. Unfortunately there are no akselometer, so you must select the option to watch in full screen landscape position.
Classified as good quality speakers, sound issued loudly, but if the position of maximum volume, output voice sounded a bit broken.
FM radio
As with other mobile phones, to listen to the radio you must plug the headset first, because the headset serves as an antenna. Search radio stations can be performed either automatically or manually.
Games and Applications
There are some games that have been installed in 303 Asha is however only part of the trial, including the game Angry Birds are featured on this phone. Games and applications already installed such as:
Angry Birds (Trial)
Asphalt 4 (Trial)
Brain Challenge (Trial)
Bubble Bash (Trial)
Climate Mission
Converter
Gedda-Headz
Internet Radio
Life Tools
Maps
Moodagent
Nokia Music
Shazam
Size conversion
Social
Store
Tips and offer
Connectivity
Asha Nokia 303 running on the network Quad Band GSM 850/900/1800/1900 MHz and HSDPA 850 / 900 / 1700 / 1900 / 2100 MHz so it will not be a problem if you carry this phone in any country in the world. For local connectivity there is Wi-Fi 802.11 b / g / n, Bluetooth v2.1, microUSB v2.0, USB On-the-go. For memory cards microSD, Asha 303 can accommodate up to 32GB capacity.
Browser
Asha browser on page 303 can open WAP 2.0/xHTML, HTML. This browser supports only one page. Although it is said already support Adobe Flash Lite, but you can not watch youtube videos on the desktop version of the site, one more thing we can not open the site teknoup.com the full version, but for the mobile version can be opened without any problems.
Battery
This phone is powered by 1300 mAh Lithium Ion battery type BP-3L. These batteries can stand by the claim in 2G networks up to 720 hours and 840 hours on 3G networks. When we do the testing, the battery capacity is qualified for your activities with this phone everyday, in normal use the battery can last up to 2-3 days.
Conclusion
Although it has a 1GHz proseor but we do not feel the significant performance gains with other Nokia s40 phones. Sometimes we still feel a slight lag when using this phone. The presence of Angry Birds game in a non-smartphone mobile (Java) is quite impressive even though only a trial with 15 free levels, but its existence is quite entertaining. Especially with a unique design and the price is quite affordable, a new experience for your mobile world.
Pros:
Unique design, light weight
Touch screen response is good
3.2 MP Camera
Disadvantages:
Poor performance of the browser
Ordinary performance, considering the processor is 1 GHz
