The Nokia Asha 311 is a "Full Touch"

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. The 311 is considered to be the flagship of the Asha Full Touch family. Its main features are the Full Touch capacitive touchscreen, the pentaband 3G radio, SIP VoIP over 3G and

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and the ability to play games. Nokia Asha 311 is available in a number of languages depending on which territory it is marketed for.

History and availability

The Nokia Asha 311 was announced at Bangkok by Nokia. It was made available 3Q in 2012 globally. The phone was sold at a price of €92 subject to taxes and subsidies.

Hardware

Processors

The Nokia Asha 311 is powered by a 1 GHz processor and includes 128 MB of low power single channel RAM (Mobile DDR).

Screen and input

The Nokia Asha 311 has a 3.0-inch capacitive touchscreen (multi point) with a resolution of 240 x 400 pixel (QVGA). According to Nokia it is capable of displaying up to 262 thousand colors. The back camera has an extended depth of field feature (no mechanical zoom), no flash and has a 4× digital zoom for both video and camera. The sensor size of the back camera is 3.2-megapixel (2048 x 1536 px), has a f/2.8 aperture and a 50 cm to infinity focus range. It is capable of video recording at up to 640 x 480 px at 15 fps with mono sound.

Buttons

Two physical "call" and "end" keys are positioned on the face of the device. The right side of the device hosts the volume rocker and lock/unlock button.

Battery and SIM

The battery life of the BL-4U (1100 mAh) as claimed by Nokia is 7.2 hours of talk time, from 711 to 781 hours of standby and 40 hours of music playback depending on actual usage. The SIM card is located under the battery which can be accessed by removing the back panel of the device. No tool is necessary to remove the back panel.

Storage

The phone has 140 MB of available non-removable storage. Additional storage is available via a microSDHC card socket, which is certified to support up to 32 GB of additional storage..

Software

The Nokia Asha 311 is powered by Nokia Series 40 Full Touch operating system and comes with a variety of applications: * Web: Opera mini browser(since 2015).Before the Nokia - Opera agreement in 2015,S40(series 40) mobiles had Nokia (proxy) Browser. * Conversations: Nokia Messaging Service 3.2 (instant messaging and e-mail) and

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* Media: Camera, Photos, Music player, Nokia Music Store (on selected market), Flash Lite 3.0 (for YouTube video), Video player * Personal Information Management: Calendar, Detailed contact information * Utilities:

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, Notes, Calculator, To-do list, Alarm clock, Voice recorder, Timer The device comes with Nokia Maps for Series 40 and make use of cellular network for positioning as there is no GPS in the phone. Nokia Maps for Series 40 phones does not provide voice-guided navigation and only allows for basic route (< 10 km) to be planned. The software will provide step-by-step instructions, allows the user to see the route on a map, and search for nearby points of interest. Depending on where the phone was purchased, regional maps (Europe, South America, etc.) are preloaded, and as such, an active Internet connection to download map data is not required. * Games: BALTORO GAMES: Unicorn Run GAMELOFT: Diamond Twister 2, Green Farm, Littlest Pet Shop, Real Football 2012 Golden Hoang: Minion Pro 2014 HUDSON SOFT: Lode Runner India games: Serenity LucasArts: Angry Birds Star Wars Mank: Domino 1.1 Manotech: Ball Balance Season MineCraftServerGamer App:This App has been discontinued MobiLeap: MobiChess Namco Badnai: Ridge Racer Drift Nokia: dice, maze, memorize, Picture Puzzle Offscreen Technologies Ltd.: Tic-Tac-Toe Pixiem: Inline Skate Etty Softgames: Pet Shop Tequila.Mobile: Fantasy Kingdom Defense twistbox: Giana Sisters II ?:Fighters, Gedda Headz, Simcity Deluxe, Temple Run 2

References

External links

Press Release

Device specifications
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