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I'm curious what you think the high end "feature phone with a keyboard" is in the the first world? Third world? I smiled when I read the following in joeyh's u

• rdl 14y ago
  (I'm referring to new sales, not existing userbase) We don't buy high end featurephones in the first world in 2012 -- we have carrier subsidies on smartphones (with or without keyboard, but generally web browsing > texting, so I think for the kid/teen market in the US, keyboard phones aren't as popular as in Asia). I think the US market is basically rich people or carrier subsidies on smartphones, or cheap phones (i.e. not featurephones, or maybe the very lowest tier with a camera but nothing else). Or of course people who have an old phone (probably an S60 featurephone) who just never upgrade, but they're irrelevant from a sales perspective, and will probably get pushed to a low-end Android phone on contract renewal, breakage, loss, etc.