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Nokia Asha 311 Review

12 Oct, 2012, 5:30 pm IST | by Roydon Cerejo | Smartphones

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A well built handset

A well built handset
Playing Angry Birds on the 311 will only make you angry in frustration
Good set of bundled apps
Ovi store doesn't have much to offer

PRICE IN INDIA

7,200

TECH2 RATING

5.0

AVERAGE USER RATING

7.5

How we test

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Connectivity and Misc. Apps
The Asha 311 is a quadband GSM and 3G handset and supports 3G data speeds of up to 14.4Mbps. You also get Wi-Fi b/g/n and Bluetooth v2.1. Charging and data transfer is done via microUSB and you also get USB On-the-go support. There isn’t a dedicated GPS chip onboard so you’ll have to rely on cell towers to find your position, which isn’t very accurate as GPS. Other apps include Nokia Life, File Manager, Internet Radio and Weather. There are also some social networking apps like Facebook, Twitter, Orkut, WhatsApp, Nimbuzz and a bunch of games, which includes Angry Birds. The Ovi Store doesn’t have much of a collection either, so you’ll have to be content with the apps that come with the phone.

Ovi store doesn't have much to offer

Ovi store doesn't have much to offer

 


Camera
The 3.2MP camera lacks auto-focus, so naturally, pictures are quite blurry irrespective of the lighting condition. You get the standard fare of settings and options to tweak, including effects and frames. Video recording maxes out at VGA resolution so not much to talk about here either. We just have to wonder why Nokia even bothered with a 1GHz CPU on this phone because clearly, they haven’t put it to any use.

Not ideal for any type of photography

Not ideal for any type of photography

 


Battery Life
The Asha 311 packs in a chunky 1110mAh battery that dishes out a very good battery life, enough to last you up to two full days of heavy usage. We easily managed to complete one entire loop test which involved 1.5 hrs of calls, 2 hrs of video, 2 hr of audio and 2 hrs of audio streaming over Wi-Fi. Even after this, there was about 20 percent of the battery still remaining.

Verdict and Price in India
At Rs. 7,200, the Nokia Asha 311 is very expensive and not worth a buy at all. We highly recommend you add another thousand and blindly pick up the HTC Explorer. If you want a newer version of Android, more internal memory and a slightly bigger battery, then for a little more, the Sony Xpera tipo is a very good choice at around 9K. The Asha 311 has good build quality and battery life going for it, but that’s pretty much it. It doesn’t really make sense to buy it when you can have really good smartphones under 10K these days.
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