Most news services repeated the IDC-selected headline about smartphone volume overtaking feature phone volumes in 2013.
Smartphones have cannibalized feature phone sales and now low end smartphones are grabbing new subscribers.
Without Android ecosystem, Samsung would have been left behind as a feature phone manufacturer.
Wall Street bears expected feature phone volumes to decline by 2-4 Million units sequentially.
Nokia managed to deliver shocking 2.7 Million unit feature phone volume growth between 1Q12 and 2Q12.
It runs Jelly Bean with an optional interface that mimics a feature phone's home screen.
The global feature phone volume decline may simply be turning too steep for the Asha strategy to overcome.
More than 50% of consumers in advanced EU economies are already purchasing a smartphone instead of a feature phone.
The feature phone sales in the region started contracting already during the summer.
Last year we still debated when smartphone phone would surpass feature phone sales.
So people who go online from a typical feature phone probably have a pretty strong desire to be online.
This lack of Nokia boost for Koreans is in my view a sign of real feature phone weakness in Europe.
In July, Sony Ericsson cited sharp feature phone sales declines, contributing to a surprise handset volume miss of roughly 20%.
The research report also estimates that the number of smartphone shipments will exceed that of feature phone shipments in 2011.
In much of East Africa you can now bank, even exchange foreign currencies and make international payments on a feature phone.
Perhaps the biggest surprise in the new Gartner 4Q12 report was how steep the feature phone volume decline was in 4Q12.
It's possible that feature phone users may have lower expectations for download speeds, but this is a significant gap in relative user satisfaction.
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Offering a new Windows feature phone, in addition to upgraded basic options on lower-priced models, will likely help the company keep a stable bottom line.
During the quarter, we demonstrated stability in our feature phone business, and enhanced our competitiveness with the introduction of our first full touch Asha devices.
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The UI reminds us of a simplistic feature phone geared toward the basic user, with six icons on the front screen including an app menu.
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Third-quarter revenues fell 4 percent year-over-year to KRW 12.38 trillion (USD 10.93 billion) due to the continuing decline of feature phone sales and overall weak demand.
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But it's worth keeping in perspective that in a world where there are now an estimated 1 billion smartphones, there are 5 billion feature phone users.
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Nokia has a great smartphone in the Lumia 920 and a big selling feature phone in the Asha but its share price is still in the graveyard.
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Nokia will offer a diverse range of phones this year, boosting its feature phone business while betting big on Windows to propel its high-end smartphones to success.
Even though Asha-class feature phone volumes are growing rapidly, the cheaper feature phone sales of Nokia are now dropping so fast that Asha cannot offset the deterioration.
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This presents a particular challenge for Nokia, a company that managed to keep its feature phone volume decline in check during the year 2012 via market share gains.
So the trick in India is to build a feature phone friendly service that acts as a value add to Indian operators and bring in celebrities for marketing purposes.
Pinched wallets are putting the so-called feature phone--which includes a camera, Bluetooth, text messaging and Web surfing capabilities--at risk, says Avi Greengart, research director of mobile devices at Current Analysis.
This slider-style device has a full QWERTY keyboard, a form factor that appeals to many feature phone and BlackBerry users but also is reminiscent of the EPIC 4G smartphone.
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