Nokia Asha series

Nokia Asha is a discontinued series of feature phones and low-end smartphones produced and marketed by Nokia. It was marketed from late 2011 until 2014, by which time it was under Microsoft Mobile ownership. The range consisted of QWERTY keyboard, full touchscreen, and hybrid 'touch and type' handsets. Most Asha phones run Series 40 while from 2013 full touch models run the derived Nokia Asha platform.

History

The Nokia Asha range was announced at Nokia World 2011 on 26 October 2011 alongside the Nokia Lumia. Asha was developed for emerging markets with the goal of connecting the "next billion" to the Internet, as cited by then Nokia CEO Stephen Elop. The name "Asha" comes from the Hindi word meaning "hope".
According to The Verge in September 2013, Nokia had a project referred to as Asha on Linux and also as "MView"—a reference to Mountain View. The project used a fork of Android on a low-end handset to maximize margins. The project resulted in the Nokia X family of devices, unveiled at MWC 2014. It was one of two known Android projects at the company, the other was running the OS on high-end Lumia hardware.
On 3 September 2013, Microsoft announced its purchase of Nokia's mobile device business, with the deal closing on 25 April 2014. The company previously announced an intent to use Asha as an "on-ramp" to the Windows Phone platform, but in a company memo released in July 2014, it was announced that as part of cutbacks, Microsoft would end the Asha and Android-based Nokia X range entirely, in favor of solely producing Lumia Windows Phones and Nokia-branded "feature phone" products.
On 11 January 2018, HMD Global acquired the Asha trademark. Also, in 2025, the HMD Touch 4G was released in India with the same design as the Asha, but running MOCOR OS based S30+ instead.

List of devices

Below are the mobile phones in the Asha range.
The Asha 305 and Asha 311 models are known as the first generation of Asha Full Touch phones; the second generation is the Asha 50x line. All devices up to the Asha 50x series run the Nokia domestic operating system with Series 40 UI platform, also known as S40. The Asha 501, Asha 500, Asha 502, Asha 503 and Asha 230 are powered by the Nokia Asha platform, which builds on S40 and Smarterphone.

Model	Date announced	SIM config	Input method	Data bearers	Wi-Fi	Display size	RAM	Camera	Operating system	HERE Maps	Predecessor or similar earlier models
Asha 200		Dual	QWERTY	Enhanced [Data Rates for GSM Evolution\|EDGE], General [Packet Radio Service\|GPRS]		2.4"	32 MB	2 MP	Series 40		Nokia X1-01 Nokia X2-01
Asha 201		Single	QWERTY	EDGE, GPRS		2.4"	32 MB	2 MP	Series 40		Nokia X1-01 Nokia X2-01
Asha 202		Dual	Touch and type	EDGE, GPRS		2.4"	16 MB	2 MP	Series 40	Some markets
Asha 203		Single	Touch and type	EDGE, GPRS		2.4"	16 MB	2 MP	Series 40	Some markets
Asha 205		Single and dual	QWERTY	DTM, EDGE, GPRS		2.4"	16 MB	0.3 MP	Series 40		Nokia Asha 200 Nokia Asha 201
Asha 210		Single and dual	QWERTY	DTM, EDGE, GPRS		2.4"	32 MB	2 MP	Series 40
Asha 230		Single and dual	Capacitive touchscreen	EDGE, GPRS		2.8"	64 MB	1.3 MP	Nokia Asha platform
Asha 300			Touch and type	HSDPA Cat9 HSUPA Cat5		2.4"	128 MB	5 MP	Series 40		Nokia C3-01
Asha 302			QWERTY	HSDPA Cat10 HSUPA Cat6		2.4"	128 MB	3.2 MP	Series 40		Nokia C3-00
Asha 303			QWERTY / Touch and type	HSDPA Cat10 HSUPA Cat6		2.6"	128 MB	3.2 MP	Series 40		Nokia X3-02
Asha 305		Dual	Resistive touch screen	EDGE, GPRS		3.0"	32 MB	2 MP	Series 40
Asha 306			Resistive touch screen	EDGE, GPRS		3.0"	32 MB	2 MP	Series 40
Asha 308		Dual	Capacitive touch screen	EDGE, GPRS		3.0"	64 MB	2 MP	Series 40		Nokia Asha 305
Asha 309			Capacitive touch screen	EDGE, GPRS		3.0"	64 MB	2 MP	Series 40		Nokia Asha 306
Asha 310		Dual	Capacitive touch screen	EDGE, GPRS		3.0"	64 MB	2 MP	Series 40
Asha 311			Capacitive touch screen w/ Gorilla Glass	HSDPA Cat10 HSUPA Cat6		3.0"	128 MB	3.2 MP	Series 40		Nokia 5250
Asha 500		Single and dual	Capacitive touch screen	GPRS, EDGE		2.8"	64 MB	2 MP	Nokia Asha platform
Asha 501		Single and dual	Capacitive multi-point touch display	EDGE, GPRS		3.0"	64 MB	3.2 MP	Nokia Asha platform
Asha 502		Dual	Capacitive touch screen	GPRS, EDGE		3.0"	64 MB	5 MP +LED flash	Nokia Asha platform
Asha 503		Single and dual	Capacitive touch screen w/ Gorilla Glass 2	HSDPA Cat7 HSUPA Cat6		3.0"	128 MB	5 MP +LED flash	Nokia Asha platform

;Feature phones without the Asha name powered by S30+/S40
The Nokia 206, 207, 208, 301 and Touch 4G were not part of the Asha series as they do not carry the "Asha" branding, despite mistakenly being marketed as such by some carriers and retailers.