The revenge of the phone: the Nokia 130 coming soon, it costs 19 euro – The Messenger

Operation nostalgia for the owners of smartphones, a lifeline for those who are still without a mobile phone. It depends on the point of view of how to assess the arrival of Nokia 130 , the latest device introduced by Microsoft, which Nokia acquired last September for $ 7 billion. The Finnish company has become a colossus churning out mobile phones, therefore natural that Americans take advantage of the experience of the subsidiary to win the approval of the billion people intended to buy a phone within the next five years.

Launched as the most cheap mobile phone with video and music player, Nokia 130 takes us back seven years , when the mobile phone was an object familiar and widespread before the era smartphone. Small and slender (10.6 x 4.5 cm), it is 13.9 mm thick and weighs 68 grams. It has a 1.8-inch LCD display (160 x 128 resolution QQVA and pixel density of 114 ppi) inconceivable for existing uses of a smartphone but perfectly in line at the time of the matches in Snake, pulstanti strictly with the alphanumeric keypad that in fact returns to lead the user experience of the Nokia 130.

There is a modern twist thanks to the microSD slot to expand the memory up to 32GB and the Dual Sim version, but it is characterized as a companion Travel 90s style mixing music and video. Hoping for success with a video player, an MP3 player and FM radio, as well as the rear LED light for when you need it. Dedicated to the less pretentious and lovers of the old ways, has no camera or even free. Nothing WhatsApp, therefore, in favor of SMS now fallen into disuse and the only module to connect to other phones is the Bluetooth 3.0, and to transfer and share files you return to the USB 2.0 port.

The highlight is of course the autonomy , incomparable than that of smart phones: Nokia 130 comes to 36 days in stand-by (26 days for Dual Sim version) 13 hours on call and two days of MP3 playback. The highlight, though, is the price: $ 25, equal to about 19 euro. Difficult, very difficult to do better. Arriving in the coming months in the colors red, black and white, the Nokia 130 will be marketed initially in emerging markets (Africa and Asia) to reach then, perhaps, in the land of smartphones.