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MS paid less for Nokia handset business than for Skype. Oh how the mighty have fallen. Goodbye to the Nokia brand, soon only to be mentioned in rose-tinted lo
by pinaceae 13y ago
MS paid less for Nokia handset business than for Skype.
Oh how the mighty have fallen.
Goodbye to the Nokia brand, soon only to be mentioned in rose-tinted lookbacks. Mobile phones, built like a brick, running for days.
- dagw 13y agoMobile phones, built like a brick, running for days The sad thing is that someone at Nokia seems to have just remembered those days and they've just announced the Nokia 515. A solidly designed aluminium and gorilla glass 'dumb phone' with a 30+ day standby time.
- sjf 13y agoEh, they've been selling brick phones to literally billions of people in the developing world for years.
- dagw 13y agoBut they've been all cheap, ugly and badly built plastic things (I've owned a couple). The 515 is an attempt to see if people are still willing to pay slightly more for a simpler phone if it is good looking and well built.