Nokia ASHA 306 Reviews

Expert review by: GSMArena team (gsmarena.com)

Nokia Asha 306 review: Smartphone Ash-pirations

In a shrinking featurephone market, the Nokia Asha lineup is trying to deliver a near-smartphone experience with less complexity and, more crucially, at a more attractive price point. The Asha 306 slots just above the middle of the pack - delivering a...

Quad-band GSM, GPRS, EDGE ; Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g ; S40-based Asha touch interface ; 3" WQVGA resistive touchscreen, ~155 pixel density ; Multi-touch in the gallery and Nokia Maps ; Display auto-rotation ; Nokia Browser 2.0 ; Nokia store and 40 EA games for...

Interface slows down at times, due to low RAM ; Poor screen quality ; Resistive touchscreen feels awkward ; Fixed-focus camera ; QCIF video recording ; No smart dialing

When you think of web browsing on a phone, you are probably imagining 4+" screens, LTE speeds and blazing benchmarks, but it's actually a phone like the Nokia Asha 306 that can really bring Internet connectivity to the masses - Nokia's "next billion"...

Oct, 2012

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Expert review by: (phonearena.com)

Nokia Asha 306

Nokia Asha 306 is a budget oriented feature phone. Featuring a 3" WQVGA resistive touch display, 1GHz processor, 2MP camera, GPRS/EDGE radio, Wi-Fi and microSDHC card slot.

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Expert review by: Natasha Lomas (cnet.co.uk)

Nokia Asha 306 review

With the old Series 40 software on board, the Nokia Asha 306 is already a smart phone with usability strings attached. But it's biggest shortcoming is no 3G, which throttles speeds when you're not able to use Wi-Fi. It's also nowhere near cheap enough...

40 EA games can be freely downloaded

No 3G ; Series 40 operating system is laggy, cryptic and error prone ; Small low-res screen ; Terrible camera ; Less extensive app choice than Android

The Asha 306 is a very basic kind of smart phone but it's biggest shortcoming is not having 3G, which throttles web browsing speeds when you're out and about. If you're a fan of Nokia's Series 40 software and like the look of its all-touch Ashas,...

Sep, 2012

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Expert review by: (recombu.com)

Nokia Asha 306 Review

The Nokia Asha 306 is the second Nokia OS phone we've seen. We like where Nokia have taken their feature phone touch OS and the Asha 311 did have some really compelling features, at over £100 though, it just isn't competitive with Android handsets in...

Quirky design ; Nokia OS is innovative ; Expandable Storage

Resistive touch screen ; OS stutters ; No 3G

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