NOKIA ASHA 501

While maintaining its plum as a leading global mobile manufacturer,
Nokia this month unveiled the first of a new family of Asha smartphones with the introduction of Nokia Asha 501. The device is the
first one of its kind to run on the new Asha platform, which is designed to make the Nokia experience faster and more responsive.

The Nokia Asha 501 makes high-end design and quality accessible to more people. The device comes in six striking colours that compliment itsdesign: bright green, bright yellow, cyan, white, black and red. Red is the signature colour of the Nokia Asha 501.

The device has taken the design elements from Nokia Lumia 920 and built
over to get a premium experience in budget friendly hands. Moreover, you get a pair of red earphones along with the Asha 501 unlike the default black-coloured earphones that come with most phones.

A big pulling point of the new Asha 501 is its refurnished features. It's 1200 mAh battery promises 17 hours of talk-time and 48 hours of standby. Asha 501 has a durable, removable casing and a scratch-resistant glass display. The glass display features a 3-inch capacitative duol touchsceen with a 320 by 240 pixel avGA resolution.The compact Asha 501 has a single back button and a 3.2 Mega Pixels rear end camera.

Nokia Asha 501 comes in single or EasySwap dual SIM models with WiFi and bluetooth weighing only 98g. This offers ultimate portability, perfect for users upgrading from feature phones.

Unlike the previous versions of Asha series, Asha 501 enable users to access everything they love, with a simple swipe and a choice of two main screens: Home and Fastlane. Home is a traditional, icon-based view for launching individual apps or accessing a specific feature such as Phone Settings. The new Fastlane, which is the default home screen, stores and presents recently accessed contacts, social networks and Apps. It provides a record of how the phone is used, giving users a glimpse of their past, present and future activity. It helps users in multi-tasking thereby providing easy access to favorite features.

Applications available in the Nokia Asha 501 include Nokia Xpress browser, Twitter, Foursquare, Line and Nokia Here maps which feature places of interest and public transport. The pre-loaded Nokia Xpress browser compresses internet data by up to 90%. This makes mobile browsing faster and more affordable. In addition, the user has a choice of forty free EA games downloadable from Nokia Store.

On the memory front, the device comes bundled with a 4GB memory card in a slot that supports up to 32GB storage capacity.

The new Asha 501 gives users the best possible mobile experiences at an affordable price. It's expected to be available in the country by June at a retail price of Ksh. 8,000.

OCCUPYING PARLIAMENT

Civil society groups unleashed squealling pigs at the entrance of parliament buildings in protest of MPs' demands for hefty pay. Their noisy but peaceful protest begun at Freedom Corner in Uhuru Park as they marched through the parliament buildings.

At parliament buildings, the protesters offloaded fat, well-fed pigs and poured blood in what they said was to end the MPs' demands. In response, police officers dispersed them with teargas canisters and sprayed them with water canons.

However, despite the teargas canisters being fired at them, the protesters did not relent. They engaged the security officers in running battles along the Harambee avenue as severals roads remained 'no go zones'. The police formed a ring around parliament buildings, some on horsebacks, others with dogs and others in plain clothes.
Thirty pigs, however, could be seen hovering outside parliament.

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THE LEOPARDS

It is said that in football, everything is complicated by the presence of the opposite team. I bet this has been the experience of AFC Leopards since the beginning of Tusker Primier League season.

The Leopards have had the worst starts in the league. Sometime back, they dreamnt fire, winning all matches and dwarfing all teams that came their way. Last weekend's win against Ulinzi stars aside, things will never be the same again as their current form has made it hard to convince any fan that upcoming matches are going to be any better.

Coach Eymael is currently inducing a new kind of play at AFC Leopards. The antics involve quick passes and movement of the ball, quick reflections and decision making. Leopards, however, have one of the worst concentration records in the league. You look at how they fell to Gor the other day and wonder what really transpired. Having failed to utilise the numerous chances in the entire game, Leopards crumbled like the Berlin wall.

As I reflect over last week's 1-0 Leopard's win against Ulinzi stars, I would say that victory is portrayed in continuous performance, not a one-time show of prowess.

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