Microsoft Unveils $37 Nokia 216 Feature Phone (theverge.com)

Earlier this year, Microsoft announced that it had sold Nokia's remaining feature phone business to FIH Mobile, a subsidiary of Foxconn, for $350 million. Today, Microsoft unveiled the Nokia 216 feature phone, dispelling rumors that it would stop making Nokia phones. The Verge reports: The new Nokia 216 is one of the most basic phones that Microsoft manufactures, and it will be available in India next month for around $37. It includes a 2.4-inch QVGA display, with 0.3-megapixel cameras at the front and rear, running on the Series 30 OS with the Opera mini browser. It even has a headphone jack. It's easy to understand why Microsoft continues to create feature phones, as the company still sells millions of them every month. Microsoft previously hoped that feature phone users would create a Microsoft account and become part of the Microsoft ecosystem, but it's not clear whether the millions of feature phone users ever actually did that. Microsoft hinted earlier this year that it's planning to kill off its Lumia smartphones, and recent rumors have suggested that the Lumia brand will die off toward the end of the year.

Comments

Talking!

[CohibaVancouver]

Amazing that the photo on the phone's web page shows someone with the phone up to their ear actually talking with it. Having a conversation on a phone? What a concept.

Re:Really??

[bobbied]

It even has a headphone jack

Really?? Hasn't this joke run its course yet?

No, Jack, it hasn't.

Re:I'm actually about to buy a feature\flip phone

[chihowa]

Dude. I did not mean that exact phone.

Good, because that chick holding it is in the middle of a call and probably doesn't want to give it up. Plus, she's over in India, which complicates things...