Whatsapp for the Nokia Asha 500 shows up alongside leaked press image

While we have already seen renders of the purported Nokia Asha 500 and its dual shot style shells, the bigger news to report here is that Whatsapp is finally coming to the Asha software platform, which includes the highly popular Asha 501 too. If the above leaked press image is to be believed(usually very trustworthy because of @evleaks), Whatsapp will finally arrive for the new Nokia Asha series. This has been THE highly requested app on Nokia Asha 501, and we are glad to see that it is indeed coming, but when is the question.

As you can see from the press image above, the Asha 500 sports a really cool-looking dual shot shell that Nokia made popular with the Lumia 620. Expected to run on similar hardware as the Asha 501, the Asha 500 too will possibly hit a similar price point and the status area indicates that the device will be Dual SIM and will have WiFi too, much like the 501.
If you had read our review of the Asha 501, you might know that we really liked the device, but in turn of the latest events(Microsoft acquiring Nokia), we were doubtful on what will happen to the Asha series. Recently, Microsoft’s Windows Chief Terry Myerson explained that the company is interested in the low end phone business and is not going to throw it away, unlike what many analysts had feared. Instead, they will be bringing all the Microsoft services to the low end too, he said. While that may sound optimistic for the Asha series of devices, it is still left to be seen whether it will be another Kin for Microsoft, or not.