"The Asha 501 and Asha platform, we believe, will reinvent the affordable smartphone category, " he said.
Asha production is ramping up in China and the Manaus factory of Brazil right now.
In her heart, Asha knew where he had gone, but the text messages later confirmed it.
"I went to that mosque and caused havoc, but they didn't care, " says Asha.
With the Asha due for a refresh soon, the trend may repeat again this year.
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Called Asha, these low-end items sit in the gap between bottom-end smartphones and high-end feature phones.
Several new Asha 200 and Asha 300 series models were ramping up during the Christmas quarter.
Much will depend on how the promising Asha budget range does in Asia and EMEA markets.
It also sold 2.2 million Symbian smartphones and 9.3 million of its lower-priced Asha full-touch smartphones.
As for the specifications of a low cost iPhone, just take a look at Nokia Asha.
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Nokia has both low end competitive Asha phones and also high end competitive WP8 Lumia phones.
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"The Asha 501 and Asha platform we believe will reinvent the affordable smartphone category, " Mr. Elop said.
With the Asha range, Nokia has shown it still knows how to sell phones at 60-90 euros.
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Nokia actually has an aggressively priced, realistic line of models for emerging markets with its Asha range.
The Asha number proves that the global demand for relatively expensive, 60-90 euro feature phones is still solid.
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The global feature phone volume decline may simply be turning too steep for the Asha strategy to overcome.
The DJ - real name Norman Cook - helped Cornershop to number one last year with Brimful of Asha.
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Nokia is widely thought to be earning 5%-8% margins on new low-end models like Asha 306 and Asha 311.
Along with the Nokia Asha 501, the Finnish company also unveiled Thursday the Asha platform that will run on it.
The bright and edgy Nokia Asha 305 is a fun and affordable phone, featuring the exclusive Easy Swap dual SIM.
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Its sister, the Nokia Asha 306, is a single SIM model, and becomes Nokia's most affordable Wi-Fi handset to date.
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In our mobile phones business, the positive consumer response to our new Asha full touch smartphones translated into strong sales.
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Total smartphones were 15.9 million units, including 9.3 million Asha units, 4.4 million Lumia phones and 2.2 million Symbian smartphones.
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The Finnish company on Thursday introduced the Nokia Asha 501 phone and the Asha platform that will run on the model.
The new Asha line of nifty low-end phones only started ramping up in 4Q11 and is picking up steam during 1Q12.
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But they only reached those numbers by adding together sales of Symbian OS devices, Windows Phone devices, and touchscreen Asha devices.
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Anyone care to call it and decide whether Rex or Asha will have more sales by the end of the year?
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Asha, the budget smartphone line from Nokia, is outselling its premium handset offering, the Windows-run Lumia, by over two to one.
The Asha 205 has a dedicated Facebook button while the 206 has access to Facebook and Twitter from the home screen.
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Pumwani, Kenya (CNN) -- Asha Mohamed sits in her cramped room in Pumwani slum clutching a tiny photo of her son, Harun.
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