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Nokia keeps hacking away at the so-called next billion mobile users, and now the Finnish company wants to get them hooked up to the cloud with the new Asha 230 and Nokia 220. Fresh to MWC 2014, the Asha 230 brings features familiar from the existing Asha touchscreen line to an even lower point of entry, price-wise, while the Nokia 220 has a more traditional form-factor but is also the company's cheapest ever device to include cellular data.

The Asha 230 (and its dual-SIM version) are billed as "My First Asha", a €45 ($62) pre-tax and pre-subsidy stepping stone into Nokia's touchscreen range that goes on sale from today. It has all the apps of the Asha 500-series devices, but tops out at 2G data (i.e. GPRS) and lacks WiFi.

Still, you get quadband GSM (850/900/1800/1900) and Bluetooth 3.0, a 2.8-inch QVGA touchscreen, microUSB port, and a 1.3-megapixel camera. Nokia also preloads Facebook, Twitter, LINE, WhatsApp, and WeChat - all with push notification support - and online HERE Maps is available, while ten games can be downloaded free of charge from the Nokia Store. The Xpress Browser is also loaded.

The Asha 230 also debuts the latest version of the Asha Software Platform, v1.4. That puts Twitter in the Fastlane of notifcations, as well as adding voice-guided "selfies" that talk to you to help you line up a shot, and throws in 7GB of OneDrive storage from Microsoft. That chunk of cloud can be used for automatic photo uploads, though it's turned off by default. Nokia Mix Radio is also brought over in Asha 1.4, though that'll be of more use to the WiFi-enabled Asha 500 series when they get the new OS version in April. SlashGear

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