Last year Orange and Vodafone also fired forth some own-brand handsets with Facebook buttons on board, including the Orange Alcatel One Touch 908F, Orange One Touch 813F, Orange One Touch 585F and Vodafone 555 Blue. Back in 2011, HTC unboxed two phones with dedicated Facebook buttons, the HTC ChaCha and HTC Salsa - and that launch was accompanied by a video message from Zuckerberg talking up “deep social integration” as his mobile strategy of choice, rather than the fabled ‘Facebook phone’. Of course, this is not the first Facebook button to appear on a phone. It’s been a joint collaboration throughout,” he said, adding: “We talk very closely with Facebook in terms of looking at the opportunities we have.” “It’s very much something we’ve developed in partnership with Facebook. These are the first Facebook buttons Nokia has added to any of its phones.Īsked whose idea the Facebook button was - Nokia’s or Facebook’s - Neil Broadley, Director, Technology Marketing, of Nokia’s Mobile Phones division, told TechCrunch the button was developed in “joint collaboration” with Facebook. But unlike previous Qwerty Ashas, such as the 201 and 302, they feature a dedicated Facebook button on the front - for jumping straight to your social network profile. These latest Ashas are Qwerty devices, not touchscreen handsets.
Or it did until today as Nokia has just added another two new models to the range, due to launch in Q4: namely, the Asha 205, and a dual-SIM variant (called, obviously enough, the Asha 205 dual-SIM) which has two SIM slots to support multiple SIMs.
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While it sold just 2.9 million Microsoft-powered Lumias in its fiscal Q3, sales of Nokia mobile phones totalled 76.6 million during the quarter - of which 6.5 million were its Asha full touch phones.įor a little more context, Nokia says there are 675 million “current users” of Nokia Series 40-based phones globally.įull-touch Ashas are only a portion of the Asha range - which runs to 12 phones in total.
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Amid all the Windows Phone, luridly coloured Lumia hype, it’s easy to forget Nokia sells a far more successful line of mobile phones, based on its Series 40 OS.
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