Nokia 306 manual hints at keyboard-free Asha handset

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The team at _Unwired View_ has bagged a PDF that purports to be the user manual for Nokia's 306, the first full-touch member of the keyboard-loving [Asha family][3]. None of the images in the document (we've collated a handful above) show a handset with a hardware keyboard, but it's not clear if it's running [S40][4] either. The images show that the device can support multiple home screens, an Android-style notifications bar and pinch-to-zoom, but this could either be evidence of the S40 re-skin (codenamed "Sonic") or, fancifully, the first appearance of Espoo's Linux-based [Meltemi OS][5] for low-end phones. The big question now is, will Nokia confirm its existence (perhaps at its Asian conference in June?), or will the secretary [deny all knowledge][6]?

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