Microsoft Nokia 215: a smartphone connected to the Internet for $29

Microsoft's latest mobile phone does not work on Windows Phone, and is not even really a smartphone. But the Nokia 215 can connect to the Internet and run a variety of applications , including one will find Facebook, Twitter, Opera Mini Web browser, and of course the Bing search engine. Point Candy Crush or Tinder!

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However, what really makes the Nokia 215 so special is its price: the phone is sold for the modest sum of $ 29 in parts of Europe, Asia, Africa and the Middle East. It will be launched in the first quarter of 2015, but that we have a specific date at this time.

Regarding specifications, obviously very modest, the phone has a 2.4-inch screen with a resolution of 320 x 240 pixels, a VGA camera, and it offers a flashlight feature, a radio carrier FM and MP3. It has Bluetooth 3.0 connectivity for connecting a headset, and support for relatively slow 2G networks. But remember, this is an entry level phone that is designed to allow people to make calls and go "quickly" on the Internet in developing markets where price is perhaps more important than speed.

The result is that the Nokia 215 has a range that would shame all modern smartphones . Microsoft states that with the 1100 mAh battery you should have up to 20 hours of talk time, 50 hours playback MP3, or 29 days of standby.

Microsoft will offer single and dual SIM versions of the phone.

Unlike smartphones, Microsoft has decided to keep the Nokia brand its cheaper phones. The Nokia brand is well known in more remote regions of the world ... With devices like the Nokia 215 and the Lumia 530 smartphones like the company certainly hope targeting billion more people to access the Internet for the first time in 2017.
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