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Consider it the true replacement for a basic feature phone, ticking all the smartphone checkboxes without having to either spend a lot up front or else shackle yourself to one carrier.
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"There's still very strong demand for a solid feature phone, and feature phones don't come any more solid than the DuraPro, " said Eric Anderson, senior vice president and general manager of global sales and marketing at Kyocera Communications.
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So, if you or someone you know is in the market for a connected feature phone without smartphone credentials, Nokia's new QWERTY number might be worth eyeing up -- as long as the choice of colors hasn't put you off already.
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Specifically, a project called Facebook for Every Phone, which was launched following the company's acquisition of feature-phone specialists Snaptu, is central to its growth strategy in the region.
The hovering feature also sets the phone up for another problem.
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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Agents can also use a search feature, entering a phone number, for instance, to see if it occurs in other active cases or leads.
With Military Standard 810G certification, DuraPro is a perfect fit for consumers and business customers who need a tough feature phone on a high-speed nationwide network.
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They're also gearing up for the LG Viewty, a high-feature camera phone that shoots videos at 120 frames per second and, in certain markets, uploads the video to YouTube with a single click.
This lack of Nokia boost for Koreans is in my view a sign of real feature phone weakness in Europe.
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.
While the company is pinning all of its hopes on Windows Phone to rejuvenate its smartphone sales, it cannot let feature phone sales decline rapidly since it still accounts for a majority of its sales currently, especially in the emerging markets.
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While the company is pinning all of its hopes on the Windows Phone to rejuvenate its smartphone sales, it cannot let its feature phone platforms decline rapidly since it still accounts for a majority of its sales currently, especially in the emerging markets.
The global feature phone volume decline may simply be turning too steep for the Asha strategy to overcome.
Facebook has added a feature in its mobile phone app that allows free calling for US iPhone users.
Samsung has this feature on the Galaxy Note 2 phone, but that's designed for use with a stylus.
Knox is a new feature that lets you divide your phone into two halves, one side for work, and one side for your personal life.
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It's slightly perplexing that HTC couldn't find room for one of these on the headphone jack -- a feature found on the Windows Phone 8X -- and also that the manufacturer isn't trying to gather such audio improvements under its Beats banner, which is still in need of a shot of credibility.
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Phone options for the blind previously been pricey hardware based solutions -- or feature-light (physically-heavy) handsets.
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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She had been interviewed for an item about phone masts on the programme, but was led to believe the feature would be serious, rather than comedic.
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The RadioShack No-Contract Wireless line-up will include some of the hottest smartphones on the market as well as a well-equipped feature phone, offering all the connectivity, productivity and entertainment consumers are looking for in a mobile device.
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Finally, new in the latest software release is the option to condense the keyboard on either the right or left-hand side of the screen for one-handed text input -- a feature that's been extended to the phone dialer as well.
From a primarily feature phone player, the company has become the biggest smartphone maker with smartphones accounting for almost 54% of its sales in 2012, up from about 28% in 2011.
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Forthcoming updates for Windows Phone 7 would speed up response times on its handsets and introduce a copy and paste feature, said Mr Ballmer.
Users can also turn off an auto-correction feature that had annoyed some users by suggesting substitutes for words they were attempting to type into the phone.
One small example is a feature called Nearby -- on your phone, it's a way to search for businesses near where you are at the moment.
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The Reuters story also asserts that Apple is targeting a late September launch for the iPhone 5, which will reportedly feature a bigger touch screen than the current version of the phone, a better antenna and an 8 megapixel camera.
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