Nokia 109 announced – cheap, small and old-school
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- 02 Nov 2012
Anonymous, 01 Nov 2012this phone is made for 3rd world countries guys. No joke. ... moreThe philippines is a third world country we have phones like but we used it only for texting and prank calls but we have more luxury phones here in fact we are the text capital in the world also we have more gadgets than any other countries if you want proof come and visit us and you will be surprise also i myself own a vertu and sgs3
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- 02 Nov 2012
Anonymous, 01 Nov 2012this phone is made for 3rd world countries guys. No joke. ... moreI didn't know EUROPE was a country... LOL!!
But you're right on everything else, this phone is dirty cheap and has been designed for developing countries were most people just want to call and send SMSs. The FM radio and micro sd slot are a welcome bonus, though...
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- Chimaobi
- fuN
- 02 Nov 2012
i know this is a small tiny tingy cheapy phone but is called a PHONE cos among all chunky fat big screened slates called latests, it spelled it's name out loud by being there for us 247 in a month.. I know you all are expecting more quad cored mini mainframes running on 8GB of ram and maybe 20trabite of storage and hyper super HD and and and maybe an OS upgrade of say android 9.0.1 A.K.A 'frozen chicken' or maybe 'pink rice'... Am so going to get this PHONE..
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- Anonymous
- Rn6
- 01 Nov 2012
this phone is made for 3rd world countries guys. No joke. This phone will never see the light in countries like USA Canada, Europe and even China. Don't hate on Nokia, it's great they are still servicing in poorer countries.
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- Schlauf2
- 0mU
- 01 Nov 2012
Excellent phone for its purpose.
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- Talal
- y@W
- 01 Nov 2012
Old people prefer simple cellphones over messy expensive phones because these are easy to use.
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- 0Ke
- 01 Nov 2012
At this price they should have made it quad band compatible. This regionalization is very stupid nowadays.
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- 01 Nov 2012
DS, 01 Nov 2012Whats the purpose of making all the phones of the same type... moreBecause people buy them, Duh!
Don't think people need a choice only between 4"-5.5" and dual to quad cores.
The low end of the market is a gold mine, particularly for companies like nokia which cater to these extensively.
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- Anonymous
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- 01 Nov 2012
Don't look down on cheap phones
They serve the main purpose of mobile phones which is "as a mobile phone".
when you said we don't need this kind of phones, have you forgot it's main purpose? phone is not about game and internet, etc.
A phone has to stay ON for a day so others can call you when you're not nearby (family, GF, BF, etc).
So if you have expensive phone which can't be reached, well... you've forgot it's main function
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- Anonymous
- XuQ
- 01 Nov 2012
These kind cheap handsets are the trade mark of nokia..nokia should make this handset as their flagship phone .may be ,it will sell like hot cake poor countries
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- 6P%
- 01 Nov 2012
Whats the purpose of making all the phones of the same type? Nokia has a lot of phones in that segment. Why one more of the same type?
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- thomas92
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- 01 Nov 2012
Must buy!
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- Anonymous
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- 01 Nov 2012
Anonymous, 01 Nov 2012yeah I gave the extreme case because people keep saying tha... moreYou are right but if I may had, what about all those people who want a cell phone but couldn't care less about it? Like my mother who just wants to do a call and nothing more?
What about people who use phones for actually working? They need to do lots of calls and that is it. So buy a cheap and reliable phone, with great battery, sound and connection and that is it.
And what about people like me who use a smartphone and a secondary phone on a second network? I like my primary phone to be top of the range but the secondary one... as cheap as I can so phones like this make pretty good sense even in moder Europe or US
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- saw089
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- 01 Nov 2012
small, cheap and old school, everything that nokia represents :D
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- KI1
- 01 Nov 2012
good for DoD where no camera is allowed.
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- zebarnabe
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- 01 Nov 2012
"33 days in stand-by" now.... that's nice.
The only thing it is a bit weird is the inclusion of a microSD slot, unless the phone is devoided of internal memory, without a camera, the slot is pretty much useless as it can only be used effectively to store music, and for that I'm pretty sure the target audience of this phone won't be hearing music on the mobile phone, radio perhaps.
Also, 42$ pre-taxes it's too expensive, I remember to see feature phones like this in stores for less than 20€... for that price they could have at least put a better screen, 128x160 is pretty 'blocky', I hope it has color, contrast and brightness on it.
Well... 33 days of stand-by battery is at least nice to have.
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- Anonymous
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- 01 Nov 2012
Anonymous, 01 Nov 2012My parents are literate, but they also can't use a phone mo... moreyeah I gave the extreme case because people keep saying that basic phones are no longer needed. then how about people who are visually impaired. they can't be using touch screen phones. Kudos to Nokia for sticking to their philosophy of connecting people.
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- Anonymous
- 0TE
- 01 Nov 2012
[deleted post]My parents are literate, but they also can't use a phone more complex than this. Even my father only uses a flip down model, because otherwise he fails to end a call.
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- Anonymous
- nx}
- 01 Nov 2012
Remember guys, 99% of people who use a phone use something like this. Very few people who use a phone use sites like gsmarena to compare all singing, all dancing smartphones. I think its quite cute.
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- Anonymous
- fmW
- 01 Nov 2012
No camera - not sure how potential costumers will see this. Micro SD:YES - GPRS/Edge:YES - Camera:NO. Its an interesting combination. I'm sure a dual sim version will follow soon.