http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fsytx9kRuu0

Meh, seriously nokia why do you still spend money on such crap?
Use belle fp2 for this, or meego/meltemi or whatever.

I think the Asha 311 looks great. S40 is a very good OS, perfect for these phones.

As a note: The Asha 311 comes preloaded with Angry Birds (not that it matters), but what do matters is that the Lumia 610 can't download Angry Birds due to too little memory (only 256 compared with 512 for other WP phones). Wonder what Elop thinks about that

The Asha 311 Just gotta have one

Because Symbian is considered as a smart phone OS and the (world record stupid) contract between Nokia and Microsoft forbids to use any other smart phone OS but WindowsPhone (WP).

You don't know that. Besides, S40 is every bit a smartphone OS as WP7 is a smartphone OS. The Asha series are all smartphones IMO, simple and single tasking, but smartphones nevertheless. Symbian is much more complex than S40. Putting Symbian on low end phones like the Asha makes no sense.

List of OS used by Nokia:

S30 -> Super low end
S40 -> Low end "feature" phones and Asha smartphones
Symbian S60 -> Low end smartphones
Symbian Belle (Nokia Belle) -> Smartphones
MeeGo 1.2 Harmattan -> Smartphones
WP7.X Tango -> Low mem and cheaper Smartphone
WP7X -> Smartphones


Soon the list will be:
S30 -> Super low end
S40 -> Low end "feature" phones and Asha smartphones
WP7.X Tango -> Low mem and cheaper Smartphone
WP7X -> Smartphones
WP8 -> (Hopefully) high end smartphones.


And finally:
S30 -> Super low end
S40 -> Low end "feature" phones and Asha smartphones
Android -> Smartphones

what about maemo?
it's mobile computing not smartphone

maemo converted to harmattan (maemo5(fremantle)=> maemo6 (meego harmattan)

no.. maemo 4 wasn't even a phone.
maemo 5 they added phone functionality but still not a phone
harmattan, is a cut down version of maemo5 and turned into a phone.
Maemo is not a phone OS, its mobile computing

Isn't it obvious.(?)
Just observe what Nokia has done after the contract was signed.

Hopefully, or to Tizen, before Nokia is totally destroyed. In this rate it won't survive the MS-tragedy.

You don't know that. I do know you are a Microsoft hate troll. This thread is about the new Asha phones not about how much Zimon or anyone else hates Microsoft or what their contract with Nokia entails.

What is obvious is that Nokia is actually following their strategies. WP smartphones and the next billion. How the outcome will be is not obvious.

They do far too many stupid things. The Lumia 610 is being butchered in all reviews. The main reason is it can't run Angry birds. Silly reason, but a serious mistake. No one wants a smartphone that cannot run angry birds.