WeChat available for Nokia Asha Smartphones

WeChat, a mobile social communication application, is now available on the Nokia Asha Touch family of smartphones.

Dennis Hau, Head of Product Center, International Business Group, Tencent, promised that Nokia Asha Touch smartphone users would be pleased by the performance and experience brought by WeChat.

"We are delighted to bring WeChat to Nokia Asha Touch smartphones to further extend the reach of this leading mobile social app. Nokia Asha Touch smartphone users can now enjoy a new way to connect for free with WeChat," Hau said.

Yantana Simavanichkul, Managing Director, Nokia (Thailand) Ltd. Said Nokia was excited about Tencent's support to launch WeChat for Nokia Asha smartphones

"Social networking and messaging apps have gained great popularity amongst Nokia Asha consumers who like to be socially active while on the go," Yantana said.

"WeChat enriches the Nokia Asha user experience and we look forward to working closely with Tencent to bring even more innovative WeChat features to our customers in the Asha smartphones and in a large number of new and in-market Series 40 devices"

WeChat for Nokia Asha Touch Smartphones comes with its signature "Hold-to-Talk" feature which allows users to send voice messages over a mobile or data network. Users can also chat with a maximum of 40 friends online through WeChat's group chat feature.

Designed to easily chat with friends or to connect with people from all around the world, WeChat enables users to add friends through various methods including connecting via phone books and WeChat ID. WeChat is now available on Nokia Asha 303/305/306/307/308/309/310/311 and Nokia X3-02/C3-01

As a precautionary measure to safeguard the privacy of WeChat users, only friends who are granted permission to connect will be able to communicate to the users.

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