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I seriously doubt the fact that this phone will be able to make a dent in the Indian market. Just look at its price tag, it costs you around Rs. 2000($30) The b

by h43k3r 12y ago

I seriously doubt the fact that this phone will be able to make a dent in the Indian market. Just look at its price tag, it costs you around Rs. 2000($30) The basic internet pack charges (2g) is around Rs 130($2) per month. A person who is ready to take a subscription of $2 per month, will be able to afford a better phone with Android which won't cost him more than 3k. One thing that I want to see in such type of phones is whatsapp support with an extremely good battery life. If such a phone comes up, it will be second phone for every person who is suffering from the battery problem of android ecosystem.

pacofvf 12y ago
> Middle East, Africa, Asia, and Europe MS needs to preinstall whatsapp , otherwise a lot of people will prefer a phone with whatsapp pre-installed, I know that most of us would laugh about it, but believe me, In my country people buy phones just because the box has these logos: whatsapp, FB, twitter.
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- MichaelMoser123 12y ago
  whatsapp expires every now and then and requires an update, on android/iphone i need to go to google play/appstore in order to do that; Has this phone an equivalent mechanism for software updates ? (Symbian or Nokia OS/Asha were mentioned as possible OS choices)
pmelendez 12y ago
>"will be able to afford a better phone with Android which won't cost him more than 3k." You are assuming that a cheap Android would offer a good experience. I won't have another Android precisely because I had a poor experience with 2 cheap Android phones.
pearjuice 12y ago
I don't know which OS this phone runs, but the Series 40 platform which used to ship on Nokia devices in this segment was able to run WhatsApp. The thing is, S40 never really felt "finished". It had these tiny little things which just made you drive nuts because there wasn't a way to fix it. Over time I thought it would be amazing if S40 would get open sourced for people to flash modified versions.
- soapdog 12y ago
  the spec page says series 30+ I have no idea what a series 30 is, I only know series 40 and 60.
  - abrowne 12y ago
    Series 40 (and Asha Platform) is dead: http://www.knowyourmobile.in/microsoft/nokia-x/10262/microsoft-kills-nokia-x-android-line-asha-and-series-40 http://www.knowyourmobile.in/microsoft/nokia-x/10262/microso... Nokia had Series 30 and 40 (both non-Symbian) and 60, 80, and 90 (all platforms on Symbian).

by h43k3r 12y ago

pacofvf 12y ago

> Middle East, Africa, Asia, and Europe MS needs to preinstall whatsapp , otherwise a lot of people will prefer a phone with whatsapp pre-installed, I know that most of us would laugh about it, but believe me, In my country people buy phones just because the box has these logos: whatsapp, FB, twitter.

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MichaelMoser123 12y ago
whatsapp expires every now and then and requires an update, on android/iphone i need to go to google play/appstore in order to do that; Has this phone an equivalent mechanism for software updates ? (Symbian or Nokia OS/Asha were mentioned as possible OS choices)

pmelendez 12y ago

>"will be able to afford a better phone with Android which won't cost him more than 3k." You are assuming that a cheap Android would offer a good experience. I won't have another Android precisely because I had a poor experience with 2 cheap Android phones.

pearjuice 12y ago

I don't know which OS this phone runs, but the Series 40 platform which used to ship on Nokia devices in this segment was able to run WhatsApp. The thing is, S40 never really felt "finished". It had these tiny little things which just made you drive nuts because there wasn't a way to fix it. Over time I thought it would be amazing if S40 would get open sourced for people to flash modified versions.

soapdog 12y ago
the spec page says series 30+ I have no idea what a series 30 is, I only know series 40 and 60.
- abrowne 12y ago
  Series 40 (and Asha Platform) is dead: http://www.knowyourmobile.in/microsoft/nokia-x/10262/microsoft-kills-nokia-x-android-line-asha-and-series-40 http://www.knowyourmobile.in/microsoft/nokia-x/10262/microso... Nokia had Series 30 and 40 (both non-Symbian) and 60, 80, and 90 (all platforms on Symbian).