#Whatsapp for nokia 1100 full
Low end hardware + social softwareĪside from differing social shortcuts, the Asha 210 variants have identical hardware and software, with a sub-1Ghz chip 2 megapixel rear camera plus a dedicated camera key on the front of the device (in addition to the WhatsApp/Facebook key plus standard nav/call keys) Nokia’s Slam Bluetooth-sharing data transfer tech and its hot-swap SIM system plus a rubberised full Qwerty keyboard which recycles the pillowed keys of 2008’s Nokia E71. In its Q1 results last week, China saw the biggest drop of any of Nokia’s regions in terms of sales by value and volume, with $334 million in sales in Greater China, down 56% on the year ago quarter. Nokia certainly has work to do to win back buyers in China. And of course we already have the Nokia Asha 205 on a global basis with the Facebook hard key there as well.”īroadley added that Nokia is looking at the possibility of making a third variant of the Asha 210 - specifically targeting the Chinese market - with another, as yet undetermined social service loaded on the hard key (China has a variety of homegrown social services that outstrip the popularity of global offerings, such as microblogging service Sina Weibo vs Twitter).
“Both of our partners are hugely successful around the world and as we go on a market by market basis, some of our market teams would like to have the WhatsApp variant, some would like to have the Facebook variant. “On a market by market basis we will have either WhatsApp or Facebook,” said Broadley. Both of our partners are hugely successful around the world. He also confirmed that neither device will be sold in North American. The two Asha 210 social flavours - which also each come in single SIM/dual SIM variants - won’t be offered together in the same market but will rather be region specific, presumably corresponding to where the respective services are most popular. Neil Broadley, marketing director for Nokia’s mobile phones division, told TechCrunch the WhatsApp device will generally target Asia-Pac and Middle East & Africa, while the Facebook flavour will mostly be heading to Europe and Latin America. Nokia describes the Asha 210’s WhatsApp hardware key as a “world first”, although we’ve seen the mobile maker ( and others) stick a Facebook button on a phone before. But before you start wondering how displeased Facebook is going to be with Nokia for two-timing it with a deadly messaging rival, the handset actually comes in two social messaging flavours, with a second variant having a dedicated Facebook key (shown below, on the black handset) instead of a WhatsApp button.
Tapping into the hugely popular social messaging craze is clearly Nokia’s aim here.
Last week the messaging service said it now has north of 200 million monthly active users (this compares to BBM’s more modest 60 million).
#Whatsapp for nokia 1100 series
On the Series 40 platform, WhatsApp normally charges a $0.99 annual fee after a first year of free use. But the most notable addition to this BlackBerry-esque device is a hardware key on the front that short-cuts to messaging app WhatsApp - which, extending the BlackBerry comparison, is the phone’s BBM replacement.Īs well as the ability to fire up WhatsApp by long pressing on this dedicated key, Nokia said Asha 210 buyers will get a free subscription to the messaging service for the lifetime of the device. The 2G-plus-Wi-Fi Asha 210, due to ship before the end of Q2, packs a physical Qwerty keyboard and comes painted in Nokia’s now trademark eye-popping colours (yellow, cyan, magenta), plus black and white.
#Whatsapp for nokia 1100 android
Nokia has announced another handset in its Series 40-based Asha portfolio of low end mobiles which compete with the budget end of Android and cheap BlackBerrys.
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