Microsoft continues to Nokia phones. In a surprise announcement this morning, the software giant unveiled its latest Nokia 216 feature phone. Despite the announcement of plans to sell its feature phone business to FIH Mobile, a subsidiary of Foxconn, for $ 350 million earlier this year, Microsoft is still the launch of new Nokia phones. The new Nokia 216 is one of the most basic phones that Microsoft makes, and will be available in India next month for about $ 37. It features a 2.4 inch QVGA screen, 0.3 megapixel camera with front and rear, running on the OS series 30 with the Opera Mini browser. It even has a headphone jack.
It is easy to understand why Microsoft continues to create feature phones, the company still sells millions of them each month. Microsoft hopes that users previously phone functionality to create a Microsoft account and be part of the Microsoft ecosystem, but it is unclear whether the millions of long phone users never actually done this. Microsoft hinted earlier this year that he intended to kill her Lumia smartphones, and recent rumors have suggested that the Lumia brand will die by the end of the year.
Rumors suggest that Microsoft is considering a branded phone surface for next year. Meanwhile, Lumia Windows Phone and Microsoft's strategy has failed, and sales and Windows Phone market share decreased from the mobile corporate restructuring last year. Microsoft has significantly reduced its phone business and laid off thousands of employees as part of a $ 7.6 billion write off the acquisition of the Nokia phone business.