Microsoft And Nokia Team Up To Take Back The Low End

Say a prayer for Android. Nokia's new Lumia 710 Windows Phone, a $49 smartphone aimed at the feature-phone set, is about to change the way carriers sell - and customers see - cellphones. Forget LTE, dual cores, and all that flummery. Microsoft and Nokia are essentially buying a few million people stuck in the 20th century a new cellphone and they're doing it in a way only the world's two finest proprietors of technology to the masses could. On the surface, the Lumia 710 is redolent of the bargain basement. The amateurish (but rugged) rotruding buttons and a rubberized back are a direct attack against the carbon-fiber power slabs that most carriers are flogging while the OS is all animation and pop, aimed at market that's used to constantly moving images associated with ad-clogged web pages and Xbox dashboards. It is, to quote Ren and Stimpy, a jolly candy phone, priced to move and ready for the anything but iPhone crowd who, whether by dint of economics or aesthetics, don't go much for Nexii or RAZRii either.

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