Nokia has unveiled the Nokia Asha 501, the first in a new affordable range of smartphones running on the Asha platform. “The new Nokia Asha 501 raises the bar for what is possible in affordable smartphone design and optimisation,” said Timo Toikkanen, Nokia’s Executive Vice President of Mobile Phones. Running the new Nokia Asha platform, the Nokia Asha 501 is inbuilt with two homescreens, called Home and Fastlane.