Counterpoint: Feature phones are great again, sales rise for fourth consecutive quarter
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- 29 Jan 2019
I would like to have feature phone with good camera and long battery life, thats all i need.
fact, that feature phone have small screen does not mean that photos need to be junk.
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- Anonymous
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- 24 Dec 2018
Carol, 21 Dec 2018The problem is, symbian is still ahead and does not even se... moreIf it was ahead , in features people wanted in smartphones it would have taken off.. as such it may have features that are still missing from IOS and android , but they aren’t the features that are a must as such it’s more of a bonus if they were there. If it could come back now and have a better and faster UI , which has a platform for games to be built on easily I can’t see why people wouldn’t use it , I mean look at Samsung i’m Pretty sure they are still building tizen up in the background. As within the next few years the smartphone market is lightly to decline more and the only way to keep profits up is to have you’re own eco system like iOS Apple phone , Apple Watch ... Samsung phone , Samsung watch .. just a needs Tos “Tizen operating system” also that way they can keep devices updated for longer and focus more on selling more content on there version of the play store say... Tizen Game store...
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- 22 Dec 2018
1st world citizen here, would insta buy if comes with WhatsApp. because battery life
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- 22 Dec 2018
Carol, 21 Dec 2018The problem is, symbian is still ahead and does not even se... moreIn some ways, it's true, but it's not necessarily painting the whole picture. Symbian's days are long gone. Google should learn from the mistakes Nokia made. You can't rest on your laurels and think you're always going to be on top.
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- 22 Dec 2018
Anonymous, 22 Dec 2018I've used 2 symbian phones in the glory days of nokia and i... moreBy the time Symbian^3 rolled out, Nokia's competitors were already way ahead in the UI department. Stephen Elop's initiative to push out Anna and Belle improved the experience a bit, though.
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- 22 Dec 2018
AnonD-762416, 22 Dec 2018Symbian was a frigging cluster fudge. There might have been... moreI can only speak on my behalf, but Symbian wasn't that bad for me. The user experience wasn't the best and left a lot to be desired, yet it was usable and I never really had a bad time with it.
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- 22 Dec 2018
Rutherford, 21 Dec 2018To be fair, there were features available in Symbian that h... moreSymbian was a frigging cluster fudge. There might have been one or two random features no one has specifically used since, but the whole user experience was brain haemorrhage inducing. "I'll just select this option before lunch and it'll maybe be done loading when I get back...."
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- 22 Dec 2018
Rutherford, 21 Dec 2018To be fair, there were features available in Symbian that h... moreI've used 2 symbian phones in the glory days of nokia and it was a nightmare experience especially in symbian 3 touch devices.
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- 22 Dec 2018
The reason these phones remain popular in the middle east and Africa is because not everyone can afford a smart phone. Sure you get very cheap smart phones but for example where I live in South Africa data is expensive due to corporate greed and smart phones are not the best option. so a lot of people just go for feature phone and get by with voice calling and sms's
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- 22 Dec 2018
AnonF-85937, 21 Dec 2018You can do all that on Android, so what are you on about? Which version of the Android exactly? Because I know not many lets you do that.
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- 22 Dec 2018
PiT, 21 Dec 2018The problem with features phones is they are too old to su... moreBut it's not bad. If there's a person who must have a phone to contact their doctor or a relative when they're ill, it's relatively easy to do it using a traditional phone. There are even some models when one can add maybe 3-5 contacts so it goes like: 1. doctor 2. paramedics 3. relative and optional 4-5. alternative relatives. I have a relative who had a heart attack about 4 years ago and we bought a phone for him. When he was in bad shape, he used mostly his second phone with a pre-paid card. When he was better, he used his first phone (with android and all the extra features). His second phone was what's called in my country a "dumb phone" so it had an option to diall any number, to call 3 chosen contacts directly or to text. There was no camera, mp3 player and so on but in this case it wasn't important.
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- 21 Dec 2018
Rutherford, 21 Dec 2018To be fair, there were features available in Symbian that h... moreThe problem is, symbian is still ahead and does not even sell anymore. Reminding everyday how pathetic this platforms are.
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- 21 Dec 2018
Me21012, 21 Dec 2018We are sort of the same I still have N82, 808, 1020, 950, a... moreOh man, i need a 808.
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- 21 Dec 2018
O S, 20 Dec 2018HMD bought the rights from Foxconn.Do not worry, Foxxcon owns nothi.g from NOKIA. Tehy just use the factyes that were once owned by NOKIA.
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- 21 Dec 2018
Joe Dickson, 21 Dec 2018HMD only does the marketing.Oh, yeah, how right you are, NOKIA needs another brand to just do marketing...f mor''s.... At least this days, to be a m'''n is a bliss. Right?
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- 21 Dec 2018
Anonymous, 21 Dec 2018Bring back feature phones with good camera ... are you read... moreNop
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- 21 Dec 2018
Essen, 21 Dec 2018The ideal utopia is a choice of multiple operating systems ... moreWhat, you finaly realised you made a mistake? Well... too late!
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- 21 Dec 2018
The old feature phones from over 10 years ago will bring back tons of nostalgia. These ones coming out in 2018?
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- 21 Dec 2018
lolsomany, 20 Dec 2018problem with features phone is screen is too small. for me ... moreThe problem with features phones is they are too old to support new things like apps media games..etc actually they do only phone calls
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- 21 Dec 2018
Lightning McQueen, 21 Dec 2018Still using Nokia 6, but wondering if I should buy the Noki... moreyes, alot of criminals now ask for your phone when they rob you. So you just give them the cheapest phone, they would never question if you have another phone in your pocket.