Speak for yourself, until I was forced away from it that form factor was by far my preferred type. I loved my old Motorola Q9h.

(Not sure what WhatsApp is though... err, 28 year old male, am I in the demographic for it? I already have unlimited SMS for $5 a month or so, and it is indeed how I primarily use my phone.)

Unlimited SMS is something that's not available in most third world countries.

Also, the functionality of WhatsApp far exceed SMS's.

I tried to install WhatsApp many times on my Android phone. Every single time, I've been put off by its gargantuan list of required permissions.

Function is beauty.

I doubt you will find another sub $75 phone with a QWERTY keyboard and WhatsApp.

The Pink and Yellow colors are a nice touch too. I think low-income buyers are tired of being limited to just black and gray phones.

In my experience, higher income buyers are tired of being limited to black and gray phones as well. That was a big selling point of the Lumia 920 to me. It didn't need a case and it came in the color I wanted.

I guess it'll work just fine for some people. My cousin doesn't browse on her phone but only uses whatsapp and sometimes texts. The front-qwerty takes lots of space, but it doesn't matter if you don't need a lot of screen for webpages and such.

I think the blue version will also look much better than the banana, ehm, yellow phone. A nephew had a yellow Nokia Lumia, everyone's first reaction was really "nice banana" :P

I'm sure it will. Given the price point it's obviously not aimed at the early adopters but still looks terrible imo.