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India/Africa spend a huge amount of money on phones. $12 is absolutely no problem. It is less than what they pay now.
by amalag 13y ago
India/Africa spend a huge amount of money on phones. $12 is absolutely no problem. It is less than what they pay now.
- JoeAltmaier 13y agoBut isn't texting the favored use? Actually making a call is often impractical with spotty cell coverage. In the Philippines apparently most folks text. Signal is occasional; text messages eventually get through automatically as you travel around during the day while a call is only possible at those brief times of connectivity. Anyway, can this $12 phone text?
- dan1234 13y agoSMS is a pretty basic part of the GSM standard so, if it didn't support it (assuming it's a GSM phone, of course)
- JoeAltmaier 13y agoBut I don't see a keyboard; I doubt its a touch-screen. So no way to enter texts?
- mumphster 13y agoUh do you not see the letters on the number keys there. Did you ever own a phone before smart phones?
- zodiac 13y agothere's a numeric keypad to enter texts with (press 7 three times to type r, etc)
- Shivetya 13y agosince costs and efficiency are key, do away with lower case at this price point.
- ljf 13y agohttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T9_(predictive_text) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T9_(predictive_text) maybe? Doubt they have the liecence, but it's a very fast way of typing. With an old Nokia 8250 - I can type pretty fast with the phone in my pocket - muscle memory for the win!
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- patio11 13y agoThe world is a big place, and while it includes people who spend quite a bit of money on phones, it also includes another billion or so people who don't have one yet, chiefly for economic reasons.