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Comment by ArikBe | Hacker News Reader

Here's what I want in a phone:

  – Ability to place calls
  – Ability to text
  – Whatsapp
  – Google Maps

  – The ability to remove all other applications from the phone, including the browser.

If I can do that, then great. I'm a college student. I have an iPhone 3GS that is slowly dying with a 14 EUR (~18 USD) p/m plan. If I can just buy this thing cheap, then I'll stick to the dataplan I already have.

What OS does this phone use? I couldn't find that information.

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Asha phone might work for you. Google maps not included but it has Nokia maps that are quite good - still no option for offline, it downloads map when you need it, as well navigation option is very poor in Asha.

I don't see why not simply buy cheap Android phone (e.g. Prestigio). Experience will be better and price the same. While I'm not sure about charging: I guess cheap Android will need to be charged daily and Asha might last from 3 to 7 days.

It's possible to push maps from a PC to at least some S40 phones:

http://conversations.nokia.com/2012/03/13/using-nokia-maps-f...

I doubt they disabled it for this one.

Maybe that will be useful for others but overall maps experience on asha is not very good.

I would be surprised if Nokia maps didn’t allow offline navigation. It does on my N9 and did on the E63 (Series 60), and I found it generally much more usable than anything Google has come up with.

Not on Asha. I had two for investigation of market.

N9 is great phone :)

> What OS does this phone use? I couldn't find that information.

Series 40

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