Nokia Asha 501 pre-bookings open in India, price is Rs 5199

Nokia’s budget smartphone, the Asha 501 is now open for pre-bookings in India. The device will cost Rs 5199 and interested buyers can place an order from Nokia’s website itself. The listing does not mention the exact day when the phone will ship.

Some of the key features of the device are:

• The device has a 3-inch screen, with a 320240-pixel resolution and fully touch-screen device.

• It has a 3.2 megapixel camera.

• There is a Dual-SIM and Single SIM version of the phone.

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• The Single SIM has a standby time of up to 48 days, while the Dual SIM standby time is up to 26 days.

• The smartphone has up to 17 hours talk time.

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• The smartphone supports 2G and WiFi, Bluetooth 3.0.

• It comes with additional memory of 4GB (with the card included in box), expandable up to 32GB and has 64 MB RAM.

• Available colours: Bright Red, Bright Green, Cyan, Yellow, White and Black.

• The smartphone has a lot of pre installed apps such as Facebook, Twitter. Nokia has forged a special deal with Facebook to ensure that users can share photos directly on Facebook. The smartphone also comes with the Nokia Xpress Browser. Other apps include FourSquare, Bejeweled 3, Plants vs. Zombies.

• Asha 501 will also support a number of Indian languages such as Hindi, Malayalam, Tamil in its virtual keyboard.