{"id":654265,"date":"2013-04-24T10:45:44","date_gmt":"2013-04-24T14:45:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bgr.com\/?p=462608"},"modified":"2013-04-24T10:45:44","modified_gmt":"2013-04-24T14:45:44","slug":"messaging-mania-nokia-launches-a-whatsapp-phone-while-kik-raises-19-5-million","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/654265","title":{"rendered":"Messaging mania: Nokia launches a WhatsApp phone while Kik raises $19.5 million"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/04\/24\/nokia-asha-210-analysis-whatsapp-462608\/\" class=\"bgr-rss-featured-image bgr-rss-test-class\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i2.wp.com\/boygeniusreport.files.wordpress.com\/2013\/04\/nokia-asha-210.jpg?resize=610%2C436\" class=\"attachment-feed_normal wp-post-image\" alt=\"Messaging mania: Nokia launches a WhatsApp phone while Kik gets $19.5 million financing round\" title=\"nokia-asha-210\" width=\"610\" height=\"436\" \/><\/a><\/center>Nokia on Wednesday launched <a href=\"http:\/\/conversations.nokia.com\/2013\/04\/24\/the-keys-to-getting-social-nokia-asha-210\/\">a WhatsApp phone<\/a>\u00a0that includes unlimited <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/tag\/whatsapp\">WhatsApp<\/a> messaging rolled into the retail price. And the retail price is just $72. The Asha 210 has a dedicated WhatsApp button that gives instant access to the service. This is a bold move, since it effectively means the hardware \u00a0is specifically designed to draw consumers away from SMS services, which are very lucrative for emerging market carriers. This move is the opening salvo in <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/tag\/nokia\">Nokia&#8217;s<\/a> new bid to revive the flagging fortunes of its Asha feature phone line with new software features.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/04\/24\/nokia-asha-210-analysis-whatsapp-462608\/?utm_source=more-link&#038;utm_medium=feed\" class=\"more-link\"><em>Continue reading&#8230;<\/em><\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TheBoyGeniusReport\/~4\/FPyecwmp0k4\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nokia on Wednesday launched a WhatsApp phone\u00a0that includes unlimited WhatsApp messaging rolled into the retail price. And the retail price is just $72. The Asha 210 has a dedicated WhatsApp button that gives instant access to the service. This is a bold move, since it effectively means the hardware \u00a0is specifically designed to draw consumers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7566,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-654265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mobile","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654265","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\/7566"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=654265"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654265\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=654265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=654265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=654265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}