Reviewers Liked
- Colorful fun design
- Decent 5megapixel camera
- Great battery life
- Replaceable rear cover
- Easy to use
- Cheap
Reviewers Didn't Like
- Underpowered feature phone with very limited functionality
- Poor apps
- Poor display
- No GPS
- No front camera
Nokia Asha 503
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Expert reviews and ratings
By Recombu
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Bye Asha, buy Lumia The Nokia Asha 503 is a budget phone with a low resolution screen, a middling camera and a lacklustre browser. While the design both inside and out is eye-catching, it's not enough to justify the price. When you consider that you...
By CNET Australia
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Its surprising design is the best thing about the Nokia Asha 503, but if you're looking for a traditional smartphone experience, its underperformance will only...
By IT Pro Portal
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The Nokia Asha 503 might call itself a smartphone, but it isn't that smart. Its proprietary OS means its app add-ons are minimal – and what you can get seems expensive. It lacks internal storage, has a poor speaker and design-wise its small screen is...
By TechRadar
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For the price the Asha 503 is a reasonable compromise, but I'd recommend spending a little extra cash on a Moto G or Lumia 520.
By CNET UK
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With its cheap price and unusual, attractive design, the Nokia Asha 503 is a budget phone for essential calls, texts and social networking. Even so, its poor screen and meagre selection of apps means it's perhaps worth looking at low-cost Android...
By PCAdvisor
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The 502 really is an entry level smartphone that should only be considered if you are desperate to get your hands on a smartphone for as little money as possible – even then we'd suggest looking at the refurbished 2nd hand market first as using this phone on a day-to-day basis would drive you bananas.
By PC Advisor
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At £69.99 the Nokia Asha 503 is one of the cheapest smartphones available to buy in the UK right now. It comes with its own OS and is unique in its design. Is this phone better than its rival budget Android smartphones ? Read our Nokia Asha 503 review to...
By GSMArena
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The Nokia Asha 503 brings a more robust 5MP camera (be it fixed-focus) and 3G to a package we already liked, and that's what we can safely call a good start. Emerging markets are the most likely destination as usual but, yet again, the Asha series...
By Phone Arena
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With a price of around $99 (€99 in Europe), the Asha 503 is without a doubt an affordable device, but in this day and age there are plenty of smartphones offering much more for the same price.The Asha 503 is coming to affordable markets where it will...
By Info Abril
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O Nokia Asha 503 é um celular básico que poderia ser chamado de feature phone . Seu sistema é bastante simples e pode ser usado sem problemas por quem não está acostumado com um dispositivo com sistema Windows Phone ou Android. O aparelho tem suporte a...
By tbreak.ae
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The Nokia Asha 503 is certainly great for doing basic phone calls and messaging, but over that it doesn't impress due to its very average performance. It's more worthwhile to spend just a little bit extra and get a decent Android phone with more apps...
By CNET France
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Les téléphones de la gamme Nokia Asha sont généralement destinés aux marchés émergents comme l'Inde ou l'Amérique du Sud, mais le Asha 503 est bel et bien commercialisé en Europe et Nokia espère que sa coque colorée et son tarif (moins de 100 euros)...
By cnet.com/es/
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Su sorprendente diseño es la mejor cosa del Nokia Asha 503, pero si estás buscando la experiencia de un 'smartphone' tradicional, su bajo rendimiento solo te...
By wpxbox.com
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Nokia Asha 503 is the first 3G phone which many Asha series lovers waited for as 3G becomes cheaper and stable in India. Keeping in mind that Asha platform was rebuilt around social networking, picture sharing and quality hardware for the price it comes...
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