{"id":654139,"date":"2013-04-24T09:31:22","date_gmt":"2013-04-24T13:31:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/betanews.com\/?p=145431"},"modified":"2013-04-24T09:31:22","modified_gmt":"2013-04-24T13:31:22","slug":"nokia-unveils-the-inexpensive-asha-210","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/654139","title":{"rendered":"Nokia unveils the inexpensive Asha 210"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-145469\" title=\"Asha 210\" src=\"http:\/\/betanews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Asha-210-300x193.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"193\" \/><\/p>\n<p>If you were expecting Nokia to unveil a mighty new smartphone today then you will certainly be disappointed. Two days after the company released a teaser which <a title=\"Nokia to announce 'something new' on Wednesday\" href=\"http:\/\/betanews.com\/2013\/04\/22\/nokia-to-announce-something-new-on-wednesday\/\" >showcased bits of a new device<\/a>, the Finnish maker simply unveiled another phone in its Asha series, dubbed Asha 210.<\/p>\n<p>The highlights of the Asha 210 include a QWERTY keyboard, a 2 MP back-facing camera with a dedicated physical button, WhatsApp button, support for Facebook, Twitter and email accounts, Bluetooth and Wi-Fi, as well as support for dual-SIM in one of its two variants.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The\u00a0Nokia Asha 210\u00a0really stands out giving super-social consumers new ways to express their personalities through design, colour and innovations like the world&#8217;s first WhatsApp button&#8221;, says Nokia&#8217;s Timo Toikkanen. &#8220;It has been designed to allow people to easily update their social networks, stay in touch with friends and share user created content&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are focused on delivering the best WhatsApp experience to as many people as possible&#8221;, says WhatsApp\u00a0co-founder\u00a0Brian Acton. &#8220;We are very excited about our partnership with Nokia Asha complementing our strategy of giving people around the world an easy experience when keeping in touch with their friends&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The device also comes with Nokia&#8217;s Xpress Browser which is designed to reduce cellular data usage by optimizing the content&#8217;s size on a website. Nokia says that the Asha 210 offers up to 46 days of standby in the single-SIM model and up to 24 days of standby in the dual-SIM model.<\/p>\n<p>Nokia says that the Asha 210 is &#8220;designed to offer consumers more social experiences at an affordable price&#8221;. The company estimates that the handset will be available for roughly $72, once it ships in Q2 2013. Available color choices include black, cyan, magenta, white and yellow.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.betanews.com\/~ff\/bn?a=R6JG2spQr40:HTYxs3tsQ3M:qj6IDK7rITs\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/bn?d=qj6IDK7rITs\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.betanews.com\/~ff\/bn?a=R6JG2spQr40:HTYxs3tsQ3M:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/bn?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/bn\/~4\/R6JG2spQr40\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you were expecting Nokia to unveil a mighty new smartphone today then you will certainly be disappointed. Two days after the company released a teaser which showcased bits of a new device, the Finnish maker simply unveiled another phone in its Asha series, dubbed Asha 210. The highlights of the Asha 210 include a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7446,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-654139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7446"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=654139"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654139\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=654139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=654139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=654139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}