As suspected Nokia released two of their new Asha, Asha 502 and Asha 503 at the end of November and hopefully these new Asha will find their way to Pakistan in a few days. Asha 500 will be following footsteps of these two shortly according to Nokia.

New Asha line comes with updated OS and unique new design language compare to its predecessor Asha 501, which was released in May 2013.

Will Asha 501 be a good buy in 2014 once new Ashas will available for consumers?

Official software update from Nokia refreshed 6 months old Asha 501 and set it in the same line as the new Ashas. Asha 501 will become more suitable option to buy in 2014 for the new users trying out modern and premium looking but not very expensive mobile phone from a trusted brand such as Nokia.

The prices of Asha 501 will come down significantly. My assumption is prices will be down from Rs. 10,000 to somewhere near Rs. 8,000 or less in coming few months. What you will get is everything best of new Asha in a lot less amount, expect for the camera megapixel count.

The design is not as unique as new Asha but has premium built, look and feel. You have got WiFi, dual sim, enhanced modern swipe UI, improved Fastlane, quick Camera access and more apps, including WhatsApp and new exciting games.

Do not forget to watch the video of Asha 501 performance and features after its official software update.

Storage is one of the biggest concerns in modern smart phones and in tablets. Specially the low-priced Android mobiles and tablets that comes with smaller storage, ran out of space to quick so we will talk about Androids right now. Android have second largest applications library for us to install number of apps, but most of the handsets don't come with storage big enough to handle many apps.

For example I tend to install a lot of apps from Google’s Official Application Store known as Play, including very heavy games, big business application, browsers and graphics applications. I have to try these apps for making video demos, tutorial or reviews. My 8gb internal storage doesn't allow me to install that many apps and very often I get to the point where my data stream choked on this storage problem so bad it even stop fetching my emails.

Here are few tips based on how I handle storage problem in my Android Tablet(s)

• Use External SD cards to store pictures, songs, music, ebooks, videos or just any other file.
• Remember to Move photos you took from camera or downloaded from Internet or transferred through Bluetooth to SD Card as often as you can to keep internal storage and Ram free for some app you may install.
• Android install apps in Ram however users can move an app to internal storage using Settings --> Apps. Make sure whenever you install an app, move it to SD Card.
• Check in Settings --> Storage if you can set your SD Card for Default Write Disk. If you have this feature, Enable it. And do not forget to switch it back to SD Card when you removed and put your external card back in your device.
• Make sure whenever you uninstall an app you first Clear Data in the Settings --> App.
• Make sure you don't have an app you hardly use. Uninstall it from settings after Clear Data.
• If you have apps that read RSS feeds make sure you remove old feeds you no longer needs. Some apps offer auto removal of old feeds, enable those settings.
• Most importantly if you are big on Internet surfing, Make sure you do regular clean up of Internet Browsers.
  
  I found that Internet Browsers eat a large part of storage. I had apps to clean up caches but that was just not working out well so now I do the cleaning manually from Settings.
  
  Warning: Cleaning your Internet Browsers Data will remove browser history and any settings you may have set. It will reset browser from the very start. You will have to sign in to websites again. But on the positive side, you can get yourself hundreds of important mbs free.