Microsoft's new Nokia feature phone brings a whole new meaning to the word affordable

How do I connect to my home wifi the settings are confusing on the Nokia 215

This is a perfect phone for Africa where i come from. I have been frustrated by Microsoft seemingly abandoning this segment which was well supported by Nokia. In Africa, everyone, i literally mean everyone with a smartphone has at least 2 handsets. The smartphone plus a "goat" cellphone! The goat phone is cheap, doesnt gobble up your data bundles (remember 98% of african countries contracts are not widely available) and the battery charge will go for 2 weeks! Here power is not reliable and the folks in the rurals do not have electricity to charge their handsets and often visit local shops and pay to recharge their batteries! Whilst i understand your comments from your contexts, i believe you should appreciate Microsoft has to meet market needs apart from developed countries. please be sensitive and reasonable!!

This looks like a great phone to take on vacation or have as a emergency phone, but I would love to have a phone that's rugged enough for traveling, and charges with solar or movement. I even heard they are producing a phone that charges when you yell at it (http://lonemind.com/new-phones-respond-yelling-screaming/) That would be awesome! All these smart phones are so vulnerable you need a protective case that makes it bulkier than the early models. And the battery runs out within 3 hours, so annoying!

Why not in the united states

I wish I had this phone 10 years ago! It's a beautiful little bugger in its class.

WiFi?

That's cool. Few weeks ago I bought grandma a Nokia for 25 bucks. Brand new, but without apps and stuff. Just oldschool plain cell phone.

almost like went back 15 years ago, when phones are still majorly phones.

No! NO!!!!!!! Regressive move from Microsoft! Microsoft should focus on developing low-cost Lumias which can take on the value-for-money low-cost phones (Android and WP-powered) marketed by the Indian companies like Lava, Karbonn etc. instead of developing dumbphones which is legacy technology and is a dying species even in a developing nation like India.

Nice fone

I'd take 520 for $20 and an extra battery for $5 to beat this

Got a 530 as an emergency glove box phone for 39.90 AUD which came with $10 prepaid credit sim so one could say I got it for 29.90.

Is that $29 the total price? Or is that with a 2 year contract? I assume it is $29 total, complete without contract.

I miss flip phones. Wonder if MS will bring one of those out.

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Microsoft should donate 500,000-1,000,000 of these to rape centers and women's shelters around the world. That will start the "good guy Microsoft" reports early in the year.

Nice price with those features the phone has

Take my money

Looks neat.
 

I am going to get this, this is just what i was looking for at an awesome price to use beside my Lumia. I love the curvy edges and just the overall elegant quality that you get from microsoft. It has the sleekness of the surface in a way.

I kind of wish we could go back to this days were are phones were simple and had less features. Live would be nice. Less connectivity. Today I'm on my phone all the time.

It should come to the US and be advertised as a campin/fishing/ home emergency/road emergency kit phone

They took time and money to unveil this when I am sure it will never go on sale anywear but in Asia and Africia, you can buy a $50 or less pay as you go phone with better specs then this phone has.

Lmao wtf is that

Lumia 520 is $30, why this?

Aah this is so reminiscent of the good old days. I still have a Nokia 3310, Nokia 6235 CDMA and Panasonic Symbian phone with me. Those were the days when the phone served its true purpose and battery life wasn't a primary concern as much as call quality and reliability. Things have come a long way though. But appreciate Microsoft for making these phones. So many people are content with the features that these phones offer and that's a very lucrative market to cater to and introduce your services.

No. Enough is enough. How many budget phones do we need. It's time for a flagship phone please....

Can it run WhatsApp?

Long live Nokia n Microsoft

There's something strangely alluring about this phone. All I use my smartphone for is texting, Facebook, Messenger and Twitter. At £18, this could be a good bit of cheap fun! Looks great in green!

Does it have Snake or Mancala?

They're trying to get most of the Nokia brand!they're first trying to get more market share,n then wen they'll hv enough buzz n market share,they'll be ready to launch new range of Lumia's and windows 10.That's what I think :)

Great

Does it have Wi-Fi , Rich?

If it has , definitely getting one
Especially if the facebook messenger on it can make calls ..

WhatsApp and WiFi then a definite buy...

That's it - the 2015 flagship from Microsoft.

It's what got Joe B. excited on his recent blog.....

A shame that it won't make it to Latin America :-(

waiting for 1020 successor (probably 1030)

Can anyone tell me a theory for why MS is releasing all the low and and super low end phones first...? When's the true flagship coming out?

Crazy that it costs as little as the AT&T Lumia 520.

The edges are slick. I could buy this phone. But what are the measurements of the phone

Omg our flagship is here :gasp:

I would like to see one of those with a full qwerty keyboard

More evidence that the Nokia branding makes any device sexier.

I guess if you can't make a dent in smartphones....

Some days I want to go back to a feature phone and use my tablet for all the fun stuff

I'm gonna buy this cus of NOKIA ;)

It has everything I need for a Secondary phone: Internet for quick search, Bluetooth 3.0 for my Bluetooth Headset, Expandable memory to store all my music, Facebook Messenger for casual chat with my Best Friend, and a long lasting battery Life (even light bulb )... What else you'd ever need to cover your Smartphone's weakness?

Question though... will it be able to use Office Online? If so it'll be a full package for me.

Nice! Now bring back lanyard holes. Pretty please!

Wow, Microsoft has released a phone so terrible that by STILL not announcing a flagship, it makes me question my commitment to Windows Phone.

I was hoping this said updates are resuming for the US NL1520 etc... :) one can dream right!

Oh my god...I want this. Just because....

My grandmom would never use this. She owns an Xperia Z3, tablet and laptop. Maybe it would sell in India and Africa

waiting

That could replace my Lumia 930

For all you demanding a physical keyboard, here you go.

Wow what a battery life.hope some day smartphone will have the same battery life.

Now Planning to buy this as my Secondary device as MP3 player (My NL920 baattery start to decline) and Calls.

Still better then an iPhone... Lol... But seriously, great for emerging markets. Consider, a young guy gets this phone in a poor nation, uses it to start a business, becomes successful. Which phone will he upgrade to? I would suggest he would move to a WP as Microsoft allowed him to succeed. My opinion of course, but that is how MS can make money from a cheap phone.

That's good.People want feature phones in emerging markets

Why do people equate being old with being stupid? I'm pretty darned old but i can effectively operate any smartphone or tablet in the world. Back to topic before some p--ck tells me to go to the forums.This phone appeals to my inner child. I'll buy one if it comes to the USA. I'll take the white one.

Wow thanks for this Microsoft.. Thanks for not killing these type of phones...

what OS? seems they've given up on windows if they are using android then? about time.

Cool

Just another in a long line of inexpensive (read: disposable, forgettable and frustrating to use) phones which will be given away or bundled with pre-paid plans through virtual operators. 

This is not a flagship its a phone a flagdhip is self explanatory lol a phone is too to have a flagship phone you would have to turn your ship with its flag and add calling to it and text and some apps

Retro... I'd get one if it was stateside.

Coming from a 2 person household with 2 m8s (windows of course), one 1520 and 2 920s... I'd still buy one... Lol

if this had a QWERTY physical keypad, then i'd consider buying this. i hate the alphanumeric keypad coz you need too many keypresses just to type whole words. sorry. i was never a fan of shorthanded SMS.

Sometimes I wish all phones were still this simple.

I don't know, maybe Microsoft make this cheap phones more for companies that individual costumers. The company wants phones for their employees, and what it do? Buys boxes and boxes filled with 215 for their people. That I guess that could be the Microsoft business strategy behind this.

Good old Nokia S40 phones

Brand destroying landfill phone.

it's cheap alright. but it ain't even wi-fi capable, so what's the use?

This might be nice to have around as standby phones for new employees and broken phones while we wait for replacements.

If this were available here on Verizon, I have a brother in law who would love it.

More bs grandma phones... Awesome.

I want one for myself :D

This is cute little thing..

We call this ABO KSHAF here in middle east.

They could have released before Christmas.

I've seen people use such phones for ten years. They are freakin durable.

It won't be available in Latin America? Damn

Nokia is back

2007 all over again? although the development of the price is nice news for the developing markets.
I just did the quickest of searches on one of the service providers (in Ireland), and you can get an Android 4.3, 4" display, dual core 1.3Ghz and a 3.15MP camera for €39.99. Sub €40 phones are commonplace here, and the same can be said for the UK.

Next

Good to see Microsoft supporting drug dealers

I WANT ONE!

gsmarena has the specs. Camera is 0.3MP. ;)

Coming soon! Beats 'Your can't beat the feeling' slogan.

Many people still use this in my country. Even I did, almost a year ago.

Thats answer to ipod from microsoft

Microsoft, if you're gonna put an LED torchlight into an affordable phone, why don't you just put it into good use and locate it as a flash for the camera too instead of locating it at the top of the phone #ScumbagMicrosoft

29 days on a single charge?? Damn.

What a waste of time, see 520

Is it 3g enabled?

I might buy two. as a backup phone for me and one for my father, :)
 

WP8.1 home of the budget phones for well its all they do now . When WP7 came out we had at the time high end devices..what happened?

How about south America? Would like to give one to my gf just to mess with her "isn't a Lumia like mine but u can still do your basic things and oh its 'Nokia' :P "

In Microsoft Mobile Indonesia site it says Nokia 215 has Glance Screen feature.

Wait!! Its have WiFi enabled or not?

Ha! I Still have a 1100 :D

I love feature phones , specially their battery life.

How many MP their camera? Also, can I install games and apps from Nokia Suite to this phone? I guess it was an improved S40 phone :P

We take so much for granted. When I first moved to management, I met the then head of marketing at a dinner party. She had a cell phone in Japan that she had had for 12 years (this was in 2003). She laughed at us showing off our newer mobiles. She could make a call and text. That's it. It had a monochrome green screen like an old Kaypro PC. She said she needed nothing else. I wonder if she still has it or if it even connects any more. Sometimes I forget that the basic function of my phone is supposed to be to make and receive calls.

I wish it was water proof and could float in water with a good powerful led flash light lol now that's camping phone

Just like my iFloat (seriously look it up)

Uhm ... I thought MS stopped the development of dumbphones last year?
MS is all talking these days.

Why would they put the LED module at the top instead of using it as a flash for the camera?

Hope so Nokia will be come back with a new flagship devices soon , maybe with os android or their own operating system.

Looks nice I must say

Look at it's market, I would guess this will do very well in Africa and parts of Asia, also look at old folk who want a simple phone.

No good comparing this with WP products, but it could serve a purpose for a lot of people who can't afford or just don't need smart phone features, and don't forget a lot of the world isn't as well wired up as other parts.

I wish I could get this for my kids. (Verizon)

No what's app

up to 50hrs mp3 playback time. Maybe I do need this just for music.

Shades of an 1100... FM radio? -EDIT FOR CLARIFICATION- Can you listen to FM without plugging in headphones?

Very nice emergency or camping/hiking phone. I would love yo have one... I keep a couple Nokia candy bar phones around me... I have extra smartphones ans walkie talkies if the s$%# really hits the fan...

Nice phone though.. Seriously... Some people just want to make a call... Most people I see are doing everything but talking on their phone... Phones are such status symbols and clan badges when realm we should nt even care...

Anywho... Cool.phones

I like this. Reminds one of the days before my first smartphone.

Looks like a good phone for seniors.

Based on icons? Why not making a GUI similar to tiles instead ._.

They should push the familiarization with Metro. For every product make GUIs that recall Metro.

if the camera launch is quicker than Lumias, why not?

are these types of phones still needed? i mean the 530 is what... $50?

What's the point in Microsoft continuing with these phones?  They can't make much money on them, they're hardly a gateway to the user buying MS services because if you're paying $30 for a phone, you're not likely to be paying a lot for OneDrive storage or Office365.  I don't see how buying a phone like this will translate to brand loyalty when upgrading to a smartphone (not least because it's branded as Nokia and not Microsoft).  Just a bizarre strategy from Microsoft.