<story><title>It&apos;s a Dumbphone, But It&apos;s the Nicest Dumbphone You Can Buy</title><url>http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2013/08/nokias-nicest-dumbphon/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>heterogenic</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m sticking with my MOTOFONE F3 (The &amp;quot;Zombie Apocalypse&amp;quot; phone: e-ink display and a 2-week battery life.)&lt;p&gt;It feels like Nokia&amp;#x27;s missing the mark here though.  Once you get below a certain threshold, you hit customers who are prioritizing price, simplicity, size or battery life.  The Nokia 515 is pretty good on all of those, but not the leader on any.  It&amp;#x27;s sort of the least dumb dumbphone, but not necessarily a &lt;i&gt;great&lt;/i&gt; dumbphone.&lt;p&gt;I don&amp;#x27;t quite know who this is for...  but I sure wish they&amp;#x27;d applied the same energy to optimizing for size or battery life in a beautiful container.  Something that can fit in my smaller pockets and has a great antenna would be amazing as a &amp;quot;going out&amp;quot; phone, even if it only did voice &amp;amp; SMS.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Meai</author><text>It may be perfect for me. Smartphones are a strange thing, they are just the wrong mix of everything: Can&amp;#x27;t rely on it as a phone, (too big, too expensive when stolen, low battery life), and they are not great at user input either: Want to write down some notes? Oh well, use this tiny screen. Oh and you can&amp;#x27;t do it while talking to someone over the phone.. because you know why. Wan&amp;#x27;t to find your way to a target destination? Go read your directions on a tiny screen, possibly with sunlight on a glossy screen.&lt;p&gt;Today I had the idea of buying a feature phone or dumbphone in addition to a tablet. The tablet would ideally still be able to fit into my pocket and have a portable keyboard. Not sure where to find something like that, but I haven&amp;#x27;t looked yet.&lt;p&gt;Ideally this dumbphone would still be able to sync seemlessly with the tablet and I could write apps for it.</text></comment>
<story><title>It&apos;s a Dumbphone, But It&apos;s the Nicest Dumbphone You Can Buy</title><url>http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2013/08/nokias-nicest-dumbphon/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>heterogenic</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m sticking with my MOTOFONE F3 (The &amp;quot;Zombie Apocalypse&amp;quot; phone: e-ink display and a 2-week battery life.)&lt;p&gt;It feels like Nokia&amp;#x27;s missing the mark here though.  Once you get below a certain threshold, you hit customers who are prioritizing price, simplicity, size or battery life.  The Nokia 515 is pretty good on all of those, but not the leader on any.  It&amp;#x27;s sort of the least dumb dumbphone, but not necessarily a &lt;i&gt;great&lt;/i&gt; dumbphone.&lt;p&gt;I don&amp;#x27;t quite know who this is for...  but I sure wish they&amp;#x27;d applied the same energy to optimizing for size or battery life in a beautiful container.  Something that can fit in my smaller pockets and has a great antenna would be amazing as a &amp;quot;going out&amp;quot; phone, even if it only did voice &amp;amp; SMS.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>anigbrowl</author><text>According to the article, it has a 38 day battery life, which is more than double yours and as high as any phone that I&amp;#x27;m aware of. I&amp;#x27;m not sure what point you&amp;#x27;re making here.</text></comment>