Nashi Budget

The Nashi Budget is a multi-touch, bar-format budget smartphone running the Flora (operating system) operating system. It is designed, developed, and manufactured by Takyotan company Nashi Electronics. It is Nashi's first budget phone and its first phone to run on the Flora operating system. The Nashi Budget features many smart options used on the company's more expensive phones, but with a much more limited access. This includes eye-tracking ability, gesture-sensors, and improved multitasking options. The device was launched with Flora 1.0.0 "Cherry Blossom". However, the company has been considering options for users to use PearOS as well.

Nashi Electronics had considered budget phones since the introduction of the Hakuri 2. However, the company believed the market and technology was just not there at the time. However, rumors in mid-2012 were spread saying that Nashi was developing a budget phone. The Nashi Budget was unveiled in Victoria, New Holland on 24 April 2013. Pre-orders are slated to be begin on April 27, beginning with Hikyusoku Telecommunications and Chorus. However, it will be spread worldwide by late-May or early-June. It will be introduced first with Hikyusoku on 5 May 2013.

Software and services
The Nashi Budget uses Nashi's own Flora mobile operating system, which will be introduced on the day of the phone's public release. Flora is an open source operating system, thus allowing Nashi and its users to customize the layout in multiple ways for personalization and uniqueness. Its main competitor is Google's Android operating system, which is the largest operating system in the world. Although Flora is not yet in public use yet, Nashi says it will support English, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, and Chinese for its release. uSay will not be featured on the Nashi Budget, in efforts to keep the phone's price as low as possible.

The Nashi Budget will ship with Flora 1.0.0 "Cherry Blossom", which will release on 5 May 2013, the same day as the phone's release. Before the development of Flora, the phone was originally supposed to come with PearOS 2.5 "Brisk". Flora replaced PearOS and was considered the "sister" operating system to Nashi's SketchOS.