Samsung is already selling that many smart phones and more limited feature phones a quarter.
The real opportunity for Saavn lies in the 350 million Indians with data-enabled feature phones.
Meanwhile, Facebook is also trying to expand its mobile presence even on feature phones.
Demand of feature phones continued to decline, significantly weakening the overall mobile phone market.
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The growth was driven by robust demand among consumers for 4G smartphones and 3G feature phones.
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Called Asha, these low-end items sit in the gap between bottom-end smartphones and high-end feature phones.
And in emerging markets the preference is for dumb-pones or feature phones at best rather than smartphones.
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The Astound is being pitched at people who want to upgrade from so-called feature phones to smartphones.
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The drastic price cuts across the ranges resulted in solid volumes in both smartphones and feature phones.
Which is why feature phones are becoming so common in even the poorest parts of the world.
Feature phones are the weak link in the handset market now that consumers are migrating rapidly to smartphones.
Though it remains strong in feature phones, LG lags far behind its rivals in more advanced handsets.
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Moreover, the majority of these transactions are being conducted using conventional feature phones, and not sophisticated smart phones.
The Asha number proves that the global demand for relatively expensive, 60-90 euro feature phones is still solid.
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U.S. mobile service provider Verizon recently announced prepaid data plans for most of its smartphones and feature phones.
Gartner's data suggests weakening demand for feature phones - lower-end devices with limited functionality - led to the drop.
As smartphones continue to overtake feature phones, podcast listeners are certain to grow.
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Instead, they are designed to be played with a thumb and the five-way control button found on regular feature phones.
Apple only sells smartphones, so its fortunes rising in lockstep with the decreasing popularity of feature phones makes perfect sense.
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However, in India, Russia and Brazil, users are only beginning to transition away from feature phones to newer, app-capable devices.
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Feature phones again, though, saw some improvement in margins, rising to 10.3% in the third quarter, from 8.6% in the previous quarter.
Because it operates primarily through audio playback, even lower-end feature phones could eventually make use of the system if the trials go well.
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We are devoting substantial resources to developing engaging mobile products and experiences for a wide range of platforms, including smartphones and feature phones.
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They have a range of smartphones and feature phones, including the Samsung S3, LG, HTC, and even an Airave personal cell tower device.
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The company also introduced four feature phones, from its new Asha series, aimed at emerging markets, at its annual Nokia World event in London.
The Finnish phone maker maintains a strong following in emerging markets like India and the Middle East, with 1.5 billion feature phones sold globally.
This has forced the Japanese OEMs to develop and sell Android devices that have lower ASPs than the feature phones they had previously offered.
Note that they don't say "Linux-powered Treo" LinuxDevices.com seems to think that Palm is going to introduce a line of Linux-powered "feature phones".
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The Finnish handset maker issued a very positive fourth quarter guidance Thursday, beating its expectations on both the feature phones and the Lumia front.
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Profit margins for feature phones may be very thin (they contributed just half of Nokia's total phone revenue), but these economies are rapidly getting richer.
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