Hi Jonathan,
> On Mar 13, 2016, at 19:17 , Jonathan Morton <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>
>> On 13 Mar, 2016, at 19:40, moeller0 <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> Please note that the classic Nokia phone is dead as a doornail as far as
>> popularity is concerned; that might speak against their ease of use compared
>> with touch screen “smart phones”… (take home message might simply be “aim
>> for a touch screen”)
>
> The first hit when Googling for “nokia feature phone sales figures” threw up
> a fairly recent article
> (http://www.ibtimes.com/microsoft-making-more-money-sales-feature-phones-smartphones-2154087)
> which states that:
>
> 1) Microsoft (which bought Nokia’s phone business) made more money from
> feature phones (the ones with tiny screens and physical keypads) than from
> smartphones that quarter. Since the ASP of a feature-phone is much lower
> than a smartphone, you can make the obvious conclusions about how *many* sold
> in each category.
>
> 2) Sales of feature phones actually *increased* over the previous quarter,
> and not by a trivial factor.
>
> Although the article then goes on to predict the complete demise of the
> feature-phone segment, that conclusion does not seem to be supported by the
> facts it quotes. It also mentions that feature-phones (with certain specific
> design features such as large buttons) are preferred by the elderly, even
> though touchscreen phones have larger screens and thus, theoretically, more
> space for large fonts.
>
> One factor you may not have considered is that feature-phones still sell very
> well in the third world, mainly because they’re durable, power-efficient and
> cheap, but their ease of use surely doesn’t hurt there.
>
> The *second* hit from that Google search is Wikipedia’s list of best-selling
> phones. Top of the list are the venerable Nokia 1100 and 1110, which
> together sold *half a billion* units over their lifetime. The famous 3310
> sold “only” 150 million - and I still have mine. It’s on its third battery,
> which lasts an entire week on standby.
>
> - Jonathan Morton
>
I stand corrected. I am sorry that I distracted from the point I wanted to make
by a rather pointless “drive-by” insult to feature phones. I also fondly
remember my 3310, but I certainy do not want to go back there, that week of
standby be damned ;)
Best Regards
Sebastian
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