Nokia's new Asha phones look gorgeous

Re:Nokia's new Asha phones look gorgeous by mowfask on Thursday May 09, 2013 @05:11AM (#5679457)

So Nokia finally built the feature-phone of the smartphone-era: cheap, long battery life, good durability (probably) and incredibly ugly.

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Re:Nokia's new Asha phones look gorgeous by koralatov on Thursday May 09, 2013 @05:26AM (#5679499)

It might not be astoundingly pretty, but ``incredibly ugly'' seems a bit of a stretch.

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Re:Nokia's new Asha phones look gorgeous by mowfask on Thursday May 09, 2013 @06:10AM (#5679620)

Low screen/front-size ratio, big fonts to compensate low resolution, flat UI and "clever" menu layout to compensate low contrast. Consumer expectations are high these days...

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Re:Nokia's new Asha phones look gorgeous by koralatov on Thursday May 09, 2013 @06:24AM (#5679652)

...for high-end phones.

For a $99 `feature phone' expectations are commensurately lower; I don't think anyone would buy this phone expecting something that's equivalent to an iPhone 5 or a Galaxy S4. They'll buy it because it's cheap, cute, does everything they want, and it has great battery-life.

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Re:Nokia's new Asha phones look gorgeous by hkmurakami on Thursday May 09, 2013 @06:26AM (#5679655)

trust me, regular feature phones are far uglier than this new Nokia phone (I still use one from 2011 as a secondary phone)

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