Nokia Asha 501 Review

One of the most selling Nokia mobile phone series in India is the Nokia Asha series. We all know that Nokia has always brought strong and sturdy smartphones. Asha 501 is the first smartphone which makes to the Nokia Asha 501 series and comes with many amazing features. Let’s check the review of Nokia Asha 501 smartphone.

Design

Nokia Asha 501 comes with a compact size. The dimensions of the mobile phone are 99.2x58x12.1 mm. When you will hold the mobile phone in your hands, the first thing which will come to your mind is a cute mobile phone. Nokia Asha will remind you a lot about the Lumia smartphones and one might easily think that it will be chunky which is wrong as the Asha 501 weighs 91 grams only.

The Asha 501 comes with a 3-inch display screen. The display of the mobile phone is well surrounded by the black bezel. You will get a physical back key on the front of the device. The design language of the Asha 501 is same like what you will get in the Lumia smartphones as you get physical keys for controlling the volume and the power button is present on the right side.

Display

The 3-inch display of the device will deliver resolution of 240 X 320 pixels and 133 ppi. The display is not big enough but is fine for performing all the daily operations on the device. The features which you will get with the display of this mobile phone are RGB stripe, brightness control, double tap to wake up and many others.

Software

The software which you are going to get in the Nokia Asha 501 is going to be Asha 1.0. You won’t be getting Symbian S40 operating system as the Asha mobile phone series comes with a new Asha operating systems. The user interface which you will get in the Asha 501 is user friendly. You can control the device easily by using the gestures like swiping.

Camera

Nokia Asha 501 sports a 3.2 mega pixel primary camera. Sadly there is no flash and auto focus present in the camera. Some of the features which you will get in the camera of this mobile phone are timer settings, effects, photo resolution adjustment and white balance. There are different resolution options which you will find in the camera which are 2048 X 1536, 1280 X 960, 640 X 480 and 1600 x 1200.

The camera gives decent image quality when pictures are clicked in broad daylight. You won’t get good picture quality when you will click photos in low light conditions as there is no flash present in the mobile phone. You get digital zoom to click photos of the objects which are far away.

Price

Nokia Asha 501 is available for buying via online e-commerce websites and you can also visit your local retail stores to buy this mobile phone. You can buy this mobile phone for Rs 4,300 via Flipkart. It is available at other e-commerce websites too like Amazon and Snapdeal.