Nokia BH-121 Bluetooth Stereo Headset with NFC gets introduced

The Finnish smartphone manufacturer unveiled it's next generation headset for Nokia Lumia and Asha smartphones, earlier yesterday.

Keeping up the behavior, the company announced the Nokia BH-121 stereo headset with brighter color patterns, and if our are known to Nokia, these colors won't be strange either. Hitting in classy Cyan, Red, Blue, Yellow and Black, these new accessory from Nokia marks it's measurements about 39 x 39 x 12 millimeters in dimensions.

The unit consists of a centered Play button for playing music and answer calls, volume up and down rockers with track controls on each sides, Bluetooth and Near Field Communication (NFC) for better connectivity and pairing, all combined with a 3.5 millimeters headphone jack and microUSB port at the bottom.

The Nokia BH-121 comes with the same color pair of noise blocking in-ear headphones, and supports advance Bluetooth features like, HFP/HSP and/or A2DP/AVRCP profiles as seen in smartphones like, Lumia 1520, 1320, 1020, 925, 625, 525, with Asha 503 and 501 handsets.

Nokia plans to start the sales by this month, and you will be able to grab one of these headsets for about 54 USD each.

Source: Nokia, Pocketnow

WhatsApp finally makes it to Nokia Asha smartphones

WhatsApp is one of the most used and talked about messaging application available in a wide range of platforms, is now finally making it's way to Nokia Asha smartphones. We heard it coming last month from the CEO of the company that, they are in plans to refresh the Asha line-up with their app.

Today we hear that the Nokia Asha 501 is to hit an over-the-air update this week, making the popular app available for download on the Nokia Asha platform. The optimized application for Asha 501 will allow you to send and receive text, voice, image and video messages over 2G and WiFi networks, where WhatsApp notification can also be read via Fastlane homescreen on your Asha handsets.

As said this, WhatsApp messaging application will come pre-installed on the lately announced Nokia Asha 500, Asha 502 and Asha 503.

Source: Nokia, GSMArena

Asha 501 Review: common phone platform Nokia's new

Asha 501 Review: common phone platform Nokia's new

After many years of loyalty to the Series 40 platform across multiple versions, Nokia has decided to renew Asha line with the introduction of model 501 in some selected markets. With the popularization of cheap Android phones, Nokia was forced to put out a new product line that competes strongly with a good price, because they know that they can hardly create a new Lumia 520 to sell for $ 200 cheaper. Asha 501 is a new option for the user interface has been known of MeeGo (N9) with many of the basic features are integrated. It has a compact design, capacitive touch screen with a smooth interface, and supports two SIM slots with a hot-swappable slots while.

Asha 501 Review Design
According to mainstream touchscreen phone today, Asha 501 has a simple style with just a keyboard

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