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spec: http://conversations.nokia.com/2014/02/24/nokia-x-family/ http://conversations.nokia.com/2014/02/24/nokia-x-family/ Looks rather poor. 800x480px on a 5-i
by est 13y ago
spec: http://conversations.nokia.com/2014/02/24/nokia-x-family/ http://conversations.nokia.com/2014/02/24/nokia-x-family/
Looks rather poor. 800x480px on a 5-inch screen would be painful.
- Aoyagi 13y agoIt's supposed to be very cheap'o. MS (and by that Nokia) is focusing on "fast-growing emerging markets" a lot.
- GFischer 13y agoAnd they're right to do that :) . A "base of the pyramid" attack on Apple and Samsung sounds like their only option. Only Samsung and chinese companies are cornering that market, which was formerly Nokias'.
- pekk 13y agoNokia has a big advantage in emerging markets where cheap phones are needed
- okasaki 13y agoPainful? 190PPI isn't great but it's far from painful.
- vidarh 13y agoIt is once you've gotten used to a higher PPI device.
- tragic 13y agoThe Lumia 820 was 800x480 on a 4.3" screen, and I found it perfectly pleasant to use. 5" would be adequate for that end of the market. It was less pleasant when I dropped it a foot and a half onto a carpeted floor and the screen cracked irreparably. Maybe the idea is to recapture that market they used to dominate, of low-cost, robust phones with the very basics. (And snake.) Nowadays, of course, the 'very basics' includes web, email and suchlike. But not everybody wants the latest fad phone-game; they want their phones to, shock horror, communicate with people. Maybe they'll find a market that would otherwise go to the most rock-bottom terrible android handsets; pretty sure it'll be a better product than those. Maybe they'll fail. Given it's where they excelled in the past, though, you can't blame them for trying.