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Nokia has clearly made the Asha 311 for the avid music lovers of India. The speaker mesh at the back provides loud and clear music output that can put even high-end handsets to shame. With the high volume levels of the back speaker, the redesigned music player with equalizer presets offers decent performance with a paired set of earphones. You can always use your favourite pair and plug them into the 3.5 mm audio port. The phone features FM radio with RDS and a simple user interface. You can store stations and jump between them with dedicated buttons.
The photo gallery app features images in a three-column grid format just like on the Anna or Belle devices and is also enabled with kinetic scrolling. There is a built-in photo editor that allows very basic tasks like cropping. Video playback is possible through the gallery but there is no scroll-bar. On the app drawer or short-cut screen you can press and hold on the screen, and get the options to a customized shortcut panel to add more apps. Also, you get to choose which app to open when you swipe from right to left from the app drawer - Dialer, Music or FM Radio.
Nokia has not provided a dedicated camera key and therefore using the camera quickly might be a bit cumbersome. The camera app has been tweaked to open fast but it takes a second more to capture the image. Image quality is not that great and we did not expect much with a 3.2 megapixel image sensor either. If an LED flash had been provided one could have clicked images even in low-light. By default, the camera can record about 1.5 hours of video and the dedicated video app comes with a number of features to adjust lighting, exposure, and effects -Sepia, Negative, Greyscale and Normal.
Nokia's Camera app comes with a couple of fun features such as sounds and photo frames. The output of the images is not that great but is good enough to be shared on social networks.
