Nokia Asha Touch

[leon.anavi]

I just saw "press releases about new Nokia Asha Touch devices":http://press.nokia.com/2012/06/06/nokia-accelerates-the-journey-to-mobile-internet-with-the-introduction-of-asha-touch-device-range/ and an article about same devices at "Nokia Conversations":http://conversations.nokia.com/2012/06/06/have-a-touch-nokias-new-asha-phones/?cid=ncomblogs-fw-scl-na-ashalaunch_0x0-na-twitter-g0-en-1todtmtbd05b7

Nokia touchscreen devices with up to 1GHz processor that builds on Nokia’s swipe heritage seems capable of running Qt apps. Do you think that it is possible to have Qt on S40 in near future? Are these devices with S40? May be finally Meltemi is coming :)

Nokia Developer Team confirmed that these are S40 devices via twitter:

bq. Nokia Developer Team ‏@nokiadeveloper
@knobtviker The new #Asha devices are Series 40

bq. Nokia Developer Team ‏@nokiadeveloper
@leonanavi Series 40. Specs for #Asha311: ow.ly/bodXs

[jaak]

The most probable price of Nokia lumia 610 in India is Rs 12000. The price of Asha 311 should be around Rs 6000. Nokia always had a range of Symbian phones between these prices. Meltemi should fill these price ranges. There should be some overlap between high end asha and low end meltemi and between high end meltemi and low end WP. So I still see a place for Meltemi. I guess Nokia's strategy is to upgrade the UX and technical specs across all range of devices so that these are better than the corresponding offerings from rivals.

Meltemi would have stiff competition from low end Android. But in my experience, low end Android phones don't give a satisfying experience. So Meltemi has a great chance here.