Nokia’s newest handset has a Gorilla Glass screen, an eye-popping 38-day battery life, and is constructed of sturdy aluminum. The catch? It runs a 14-year-old operating system, and is about as dumb as a phone can get these days.
Although smartphones are ubiquitous in many developed markets, there are still plenty (read: billions) of people who use dumbphones. Most of these are built with low cost being the primary goal — think plastic construction, dinky cameras, and prehistoric screens. But Nokia’s new 515 handset borrows its industrial design from high-end smartphones, presumably in the effort to make it feel like a premium object. It’s basically a flagship dumbphone for the consumer who wants a carefully considered phone, but doesn’t necessarily want the whole Internet in his pocket.
The Nokia 515 comes in both one-SIM and two-SIM versions and in either silver or black. Unlike Nokia’s flagship smartphone, you won’t find a 41-megapixel shooter in the back. Still, its 5-megapixel camera should be a nice upgrade coming from similar dumbphones. Don’t expect a ton of functionality beyond making calls and texting with T9 — the Gorilla Glass-covered screen is a measly 320 x 240 pixels and its operating system, Series 40, doesn’t even include a full HTML browser. But that shouldn’t matter to the conscientious smartphone objector. For them, a lack of features is a feature.
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