Nokia Asha 200 is one of the Asha variant,
which has the advantage with dual sim easy swap feature and was introduced at
the Nokia World 2011. When seen from its name, Asha is a Hindi language which
means a hope. This device is also a low end mobile phone at an affordable price
and suitable for young people because it has some trendy colors and bright.
Design : the Nokia Asha 200 has dimension of
115.4 x 61.1
x 14.0 mm and
weight of about 105 grams. On the front of the phone have a screen
measuring 2.4" with 6x5mm
QWERTY keypad and the keypad is comfortable to
use for long text typing in a long time. This
phone also has an Easy Swap,
which allows the replacement
of the SIM card without turn off the phone.
95% of the phone body
is made of plastic, including the
on-screen, with curved edges, so it looks ergonomic design. In addition, also presents a 5-way navigation keypad with the power
button, menu button quickly to messages
and contacts button
on the right side and a quick button to
SIM Management, endcall,
and quick keys to
the favorites menu on the left side.
At the top of the phone there are a
charger port, 3.5 mm audio port, and port data cable.
And on the right
side of the phone have a memory
card port and
SIM 2 port which separate from the SIM 1. This makes it a uniqueness
from other phones, which has dual sim adjacent positions.
Screen
and UI : the Nokia Asha 200 come with 2.4” screen with a resolution of 320 x 240. but there is no touch-screen
technology on this
phone, so only with qwerty as input devices. Homescreen on
Nokia Asha can be
enabled or disabled on the Main Menu>
Settings> Display> Home
screen> Home screen mode. If the main display
mode is enabled, then
the main screen only shows the
battery indicator, time, date and description of the signaling
network sim card.
For
the personalization
features that will be displayed on the main screen
you can set
from the Main Menu>
Settings> Display> Home
screen>Personalize Display. Personalize
the main screen is not only limited to
features or applications that can be presented, but even
the color and font size that can
change as the user desires.
Camera : the Nokia Asha 200 equipped with 2MP camera with several features such as effects (Sepia,
Normal
Pixel image results are not only 2MP (1200 × 1600), but still can be
setup to 0.1 MP (240 × 320), 0.3 MP (480X600),
0.3 MP (480x640),
and 1.2 MP
(1280 × 960
).
Connecitvity : the Nokia Asha 200 work on GSM
900/1800, GPRS, EDGE, although not
supported by 3G for users who like to surf the web, these devices use the latest version
of the Nokia browser, who
claimed to be capable of compressing
data up to 90% so
the surving
in the web becomes more rapid and efficient.
Other
connectivity offered are microUSB, Bluetooth 2.1 +EDR, MTP (Multimedia
Transfer Protocol), unfortunately does not have a Wi-Fi, considering
the device is also a low end mobile phone at
an affordable price.
Other
features : Nokia has a variety of social media applications
into an application called 'Social'. In the
Social apps, you can
find the Facebook app, RenRen, Twitter, Orkut
and Flickr. Interestingly, the
user can activate the 5 social media
applications simultaneously to
the display list. Other features are Nokia Money,
FOTA, Nokia Music, Nokia Life Tools, Themes, Flight Mode and Nokia Store.