{"id":31625,"date":"2013-02-12T11:23:25","date_gmt":"2013-02-12T09:23:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=31625"},"modified":"2013-02-12T11:24:49","modified_gmt":"2013-02-12T09:24:49","slug":"nokia-boosts-budget-smartphone-range","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/mobile\/31625\/nokia-boosts-budget-smartphone-range\/","title":{"rendered":"Nokia boosts budget smartphone range"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mobile phone maker Nokia expanded its line of low-end smartphones on Tuesday with the Asha 310, which comes with dual-SIM and wi-fi access, aiming to bolster its market share in developing markets.<\/p>\n<p>Nokia has been losing market share to Samsung and Apple in the high-end smartphone market and is also struggling at the low end against growing competition from Chinese manufacturers.<\/p>\n<p>The Finnish company said that the new Asha 310 will come with a full-touch 3-inch display and 2 megapixel camera. The phone allows users to switch between SIM cards and wi-fi to keep down costs.<\/p>\n<p>Nokia plans for the phone to be in stores in Asia, the Middle East, Africa and Brazil this quarter at a price of $102.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Related Nokia stories<\/h3>\n<p><a title=\"Lumia buys struggling Nokia some time\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/general\/26405\/lumia-buys-struggling-nokia-some-time\/\"><strong>Lumia buys struggling Nokia some time<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"BusinessTech Article\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/mobile\/24487\/nokia-losses-expected-to-continue\/\"><strong>Nokia losses expected to continue<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"BusinessTech Article\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/mobile\/23804\/nokia-loses-marketing-exec\/\"><strong>Nokia loses marketing exec<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"BusinessTech Article\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/mobile\/23509\/nokia-hq-up-for-sale\/\"><strong>Nokia HQ up for sale?<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"BusinessTech Article\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/mobile\/23188\/nokia-may-face-backlash-over-lumia-920-price-analysts\/\"><strong>Nokia may face backlash over Lumia 920 price \u2013 analysts<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mobile phone maker Nokia expanded its line of low-end smartphones on Tuesday with the Asha 310, which comes with dual-SIM and wi-fi access, aiming to bolster its market share in developing markets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":11478,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[25,4204,187,117],"class_list":["post-31625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mobile","tag-active","tag-asha","tag-nokia","tag-smartphones"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31625","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31625"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31625\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31627,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31625\/revisions\/31627"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}