![]() The Nokia 105 is the ideal device for the first-time phone buyer, featuring a bright color screen More affordable Internet and email access, and camera experiences inspired by Nokia Lumia Nokia also unveiled the Nokia 105, its most affordable phone to date, and the Nokia 301, for Nokia 105 and the Nokia 301 add aspirational Lumia experiences to mobile phones Dual and single-SIM options will be available in Q2 of this year. Additionally, the 301 lets you take advantage of Mail for exchange, Nokia Xpress internet (which compresses data down by about 90 percent) and HSPA connectivity with video sharing. It will come with a 3.2MP camera with panorama mode, sequential shots and a clever little self-portrait mode that audibly prepares you for your next glamour selfie. The second half of the pair is the 301 (pictured above), which is a bit more fancy at €65 ($85). It contains such features as a flashlight and FM radio, and the noteworthy bullet point is its month-long battery life (standby time). Once it arrives on the market this quarter, you'll be able to grab one for €15 ($20) in either cyan or black. The first cellular telephone unveiled at this morning's event is the Nokia 105, which is about as simple as they come these days. ![]() Sure, they aren't much to look at, but Nokia feels it's still an important element of its strategy to dominate the lower-end market segment. ![]() With that in mind, the Finnish phone giant has outed two such handsets at its event at Mobile World Congress. Chuck Squatriglia, WIRED.Think Nokia's all about Lumias these days? While the Windows Phone brand is still the company's primary point of focus, it doesn't mean Nokia isn't still cranking out millions of basic phones for emerging markets around the globe. “I want you to use this until they want it back. “Every time I see that phone I want to take a baseball bat to it.” He wandered over to the gadget editor’s desk, rummaged through a pile of boxes, and returned with a top-of-the-line Nokia. After a few minutes, he glanced at the phone on my desk. It was nothing fancy its coolest feature was that silly game “snake.” But it did the job, and it was tougher than an organic chem final.Ī few months later, shortly after I got a job at WIRED, I was shooting the breeze with Joe Brown, who these days is the deputy editor here at WIRED. It was a Nokia clamshell of some kind, but I don’t recall the model. She finally emerged holding a somewhat battered, somewhat dusty box, which she handed over with the same look you’d have handling a dirty diaper. She crouched behind the counter to root around for what seemed an inordinately long time. Remember the glorious era that started in 1996 with the first candybar phone with buttons and Snake? When it seemed like all your friends had the same exact phone-though yours was clearly cooler becuase it had the "cow print" faceplate? Sure, not everyone had a cell phone, and some who did were rebels with Motorola flips that sported superlong antennas, but Nokia, for a moment in time, was everywhere. You can still visit Nokia when you travel abroad.īut if you're anything like us, you could also just go out to your garage, find a box of stuff from the late 90s or early aughts that you never threw away, and visit your old pal right now. But don't cry, Nokia is just spending its golden years closer to family and familiar languages. Microsoft has sent Nokia back across the pond, closer to its birth place, to lend its stature to international phones, probably of the lower-end variety. This week, Nokia quietly packed up its cubicle in Redmond, bid its American coworkers at Microsoft farewell, and left America.
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