Asha



"Reach the next billion."

Nokia's Asha is a "borderline smartphone" platform; such devices are more powerful than the old featurephones, but less powerful and quite cheaper than proper smartphones. Confusingly, while it was supposed to replace the older Series 40 featurephone platform, several of its early models were in fact Series 40 phones with a customized interface. It is popular in certain third-world countries like India and Brazil; however, after Microsoft's acquisition of Nokia's phone business, it has been announced that they will discontinue all platforms except Windows Phone.