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Comparison between Nokia Asha308 and Asha309

Recently Nokia has announced to launch more dazzling phones of Asha series with some exclusive features. These new latest models are Nokia Asha308 and Asha309 with some exclusive features that take the user into the new world of fun and adventure. The Nokia Asha series brings the Nokia web browser that takes mobile internet surfing into the fast lane with its faster page loading. Moreover, the smart apps which are available in these phones low-down on data usage.  Asha308 and Asha309 bring three customizable home screens, first one for apps, second one for contacts and the last one for contacts and calls. Message and alerts can be viewed by pulling down. One touch is enough to do this all. Now, it’s time to play with pack 40 EA games which worth 2,700. But it’s totally free here. Starting from classic ‘Tetris to Need For Speed’, get a lot of games and enjoy the gaming life.

Key Facts

Both of the Asha308 and Asha209 have 3 inch capacitive touch screen with transmissive LCD display. The main difference between Nokia Asha308 and Asha309 is that Nokia 308 has dual SIM facility but Nokia Asha309 supports only one SIM. Using Asha308 the swapping of SIMs become easy; even without switching off the phone user can swap the SIMs. You can use one SIM for work, one for chatting, one for surfing internet, and more as you want. There is a little bit difference in weight as the Asha308 is 104g and Asha309 is 102g.Now, the matter comes in size. Well, Asha308 is 13.0 x 109.9 x 54.0 mm and Asha309 is 13.2 x 109.9 x 54.0 mm in size. So, there is a negligible difference in size. Both of these phones have 2.0 megapixels camera.

Hardware

Both of these Asha308 and Asha308 have 64MB internal memory and you can use 32GB micro SD memory card. Both have BL-4U battery with capacity of 1110mAh. In case of supporting frequency bands Nokia Asha309 is much better than Asha308. Asha308 supports GSM 900 and GSM 1800 frequency bands but Asha309 supports GSM 850, GSM 900, GSM 1800 and GSM 1900 frequency bands.

Wireless connectivity

Both devices have Bluetooth 3.0 as common feature. But the main fact is that Nokia Asha308 does not support Wi-Fi connectivity where Asha309 does. Asha309 has built in Wi-Fi connectivity as WLAN IEEE 802.11 b/g. So, Asha309 is definitely one step ahead in terms of Wi-Fi connectivity.

Video

Both devices have similar video camera resolution of 176×144 pixels. But the main difference is in video streaming. Asha309 has video streaming feature gives the following facilities:

  • YouTube video browsing and YouTube video streaming
  • Video streaming from www
  • Progressive online video download.

But Asha308 has no video streaming feature. In that case Asha309 is one step ahead.

Both Asha308 and Asha309 have the capability to gain good market. If you need dual SIM supporting device, then Asha308 is good for you. And if you are asking for good video streaming on internet and Wi-Fi connectivity then Asha309 is perfect choice for you.