The phones were originally released in the third quarter of 2015, in the Middle East, Africa, Asia, and Europe.

Nokia 222 has a 2.0 MP camera, speakerphone, multimedia playback, MMS messaging, Opera Mini web browser and e-mail client.

It also has Facebook and Twitter apps, as well as the Microsoft's features services such as built in Bing Search and MSN Weather.

Its dimensions are 116 x 50 x 12.9 mm, and the weight is 79 g. It uses 2G network infrastructure, and is activated through mini-SIM.

Nokia 222 has the Micro-USB adapter and it can SLAM share with free games.