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yoster
The front looks like the original iPhone.
JLehtinen
You could say that, but Nokia had very similar designs (albeit with a couple more buttons at the bottom and a hidden keyboard) before iPhone. When iPhone4 came out I remember thinking how familiar some of the details looked.
claudius
Considering that one can buy three to five of these for the price of one N9, they’re really impressive.

Now I just have to wait for someone to steal the fast-lane idea and implement it for Harmattan :-)

mowfask
So Nokia finally built the feature-phone of the smartphone-era: cheap, long battery life, good durability (probably) and incredibly ugly.
koralatov
It might not be astoundingly pretty, but ``incredibly ugly'' seems a bit of a stretch.
mowfask
Low screen/front-size ratio, big fonts to compensate low resolution, flat UI and "clever" menu layout to compensate low contrast. Consumer expectations are high these days...
koralatov
...for high-end phones.

For a $99 `feature phone' expectations are commensurately lower; I don't think anyone would buy this phone expecting something that's equivalent to an iPhone 5 or a Galaxy S4. They'll buy it because it's cheap, cute, does everything they want, and it has great battery-life.

hkmurakami
trust me, regular feature phones are far uglier than this new Nokia phone (I still use one from 2011 as a secondary phone)
danielsamuels
I'm assuming the title of this submission is sarcasm?
jaseemabid
When did hackernews become a place for advertisements?
nvr219
about five years ago
glomph
Funny how no one says this in reply to the endless articles about iphones.
feniv
The form factor is very... "unique".