Nokia's new Asha phones look gorgeous

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23 points·rounak··14 comments

So Nokia finally built the feature-phone of the smartphone-era: cheap, long battery life, good durability (probably) and incredibly ugly.

It might not be astoundingly pretty, but ``incredibly ugly'' seems a bit of a stretch.

Low screen/front-size ratio, big fonts to compensate low resolution, flat UI and "clever" menu layout to compensate low contrast. Consumer expectations are high these days...

...for high-end phones.

For a $99 `feature phone' expectations are commensurately lower; I don't think anyone would buy this phone expecting something that's equivalent to an iPhone 5 or a Galaxy S4. They'll buy it because it's cheap, cute, does everything they want, and it has great battery-life.

trust me, regular feature phones are far uglier than this new Nokia phone (I still use one from 2011 as a secondary phone)

Considering that one can buy three to five of these for the price of one N9, they’re really impressive.

Now I just have to wait for someone to steal the fast-lane idea and implement it for Harmattan :-)

When did hackernews become a place for advertisements?

about five years ago

Funny how no one says this in reply to the endless articles about iphones.

The form factor is very... "unique".

Looks pretty ugly

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=...

The front looks like the original iPhone.

You could say that, but Nokia had very similar designs (albeit with a couple more buttons at the bottom and a hidden keyboard) before iPhone. When iPhone4 came out I remember thinking how familiar some of the details looked.

I'm assuming the title of this submission is sarcasm?

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