What feature phone brand do you know Except Nokia and Samsung?

Currently, we can find smartphone brands everywhere. Apple, Samsung, LG, XIAOMI, Huawei, OPPO, Vivo, Meizu, Doogee, Nomu, Blackview, vkworld, Bluboo and so on. There are so many smartphone manufacturers that it is hard to choose which smartphone we should buy. They compete with each other via different design, CPU, display, camera and other specifications, so the price is varied. Anyway, we have lots of choice for it.


But as for the feature phone, since the Nokia got out of the phone market, few manufacturers are focus on this kind of phone. There are some reason s for it. First is the release of smartphone, we can say that the feature phone is replaced by smartphone. Second is the change of tech and fashion, feature phone can not fulfill our daily use needs any more.


But on some place like the remote village and people in poverty, there are some people who don't know the high tech and how to use the smartphone, when they are picking a phone for themselves, they prefer the feature phone, so the feature phone is still on the phone market.


But which phone brand do you know that produces feature phone?


The brands I know is Nokia and Samsung, do you know any other feature phone brand? Please leave your comment below.

Pretty sure ZTE is petty popular in this space. . I couldn't say more than that since I haven't done much research into feature phones but ZTE always comes up when you see info posted about feature phones.

I'm not really sure I have a grasp of what the OP is trying to ask or even discuss, to be honest. Years ago "feature" phones had those features as part of their hardware because that's how the technology worked at that time so, there were limitations of a given nature depending on what the manufacturer intended for the use of such a device. Nowadays with smartphones the feature aspect has been supplanted by the "app" aspect where individualized applications aka programs are designed to do such things and allow for the hardware itself to be more capable as a result.

As for the brand thing, well, I don't really get that question either since the big names are the ones that become the most well known. Nokia "died" for a while in the cell phone space but they'd back from the dead with plans to introduce an Android-powered device in 2017 from what I've been reading lately, Samsung is having issues because of the Note 7 fiasco and internal corporate bullshit, Microsoft should just give up on phones entirely because they just can't do it right - they should have just bought out the design and other aspects of the Ubuntu Edge smartphone and been done with it (I mean really, go look at this picture and tell me it's not a near perfect match for the original Surface design/form-factor). LG is having issues because of boot loop problems on not one, not two, not even three, but now four of their flagship devices in a row (G3, G4, V10, and G5 - let's hope the V20 doesn't have such issues) and I can't even begin to understand why except perhaps cheap solder which would fit the cause and effect for all of 'em.

ZTE hasn't really been known as a big time flagship type high end device maker till the Axon 7 released earlier this year which put them on the map in that category, a fine device overall but with some shortcomings. Motorola continues to squander vast amounts of resources away under Lenovo's control as expected but I'm not surprised there at all to be honest. Second time they've tried to do something different and unique - the first was the original Atrix and Lapdock years ago - and this whole idea of the mods for the Moto Z series devices will just end in failure sadly.

Huawei has been making serious inroads as well in making a name for themselves in the smartphone market and I haven't heard too many bad things about their hardware, never used one of their devices myself personally (I've used devices from all the others I mentioned however).

Currently I own a OnePlus One I got at a pawn shop for $25 (seriously). It wouldn't power up for them but it damned sure worked for me when I got it home, had to spend about $10 to get new power/volume control buttons (both types, the physical button to press as well as the actual electrical button boards) and then someone up in Canada was nice enough send me a Sandstone back cover because the original Silk White one was severely damaged by the pawn shop in whatever mishap prompted them to drop the price so low. I sincerely do love this device, it's fantastic all around and even for myself - someone that hates having a non-removable battery and no expandable storage - I can make the exception here because of the price I paid and for just how damned awesome this device really is.

Of course OnePlus now has the 3T out much to the chagrin of many 3 owners that just got their devices only a few shorts months ago or even more recently so it's somewhat lame in some respects - the least they could have done was offer a discount to purchasers of the 3 if they chose to move to the 3T, seems like a decent thing to do but it didn't happen. Remains to seen how well the OP3 turns out as time passes.

And then there's Apple with their stale boring "Oh, a new iPhone that looks pretty much like every iPhone that's come before it, especially in terms of the interface but that's Apple..." and don't even get me started on the headphone jack BS.

Not sure if this is the kind of discussion the OP is hoping for, I get the distinct impression there's a bit of a language barrier or disconnect going on but, there's my $.02 and change I suppose.

What is a "feature phone"? Where do you draw the line? They all do pretty much all the same stuff....differences experienced by users boil down to implementation (same SoC, often same camera sensors, displays etc.)

-For a while HTC was doing 3D displays no one else was. As well as better build quality that others. Now due to brand bloat they're going bust
-Samsung is the big player...but they have gone down the brand bloat path too...and what with that $12,000,000,000 USD lost on the Note7 fiasco are hurting a bit
-LG has been doing interesting features for a while, mods, alternative button configs, DACs and so on


All the Chinese OEMs (1+, ZTE, Xiaomi, etc) all copy everyone else. And they're quite good at it.


All of the above of course suck to varying degrees about hardware or software support or both.

Skripka said:

What is a "feature phone"? Where do you draw the line? They all do pretty much all the same stuff....differences experienced by users boil down to implementation (same SoC, often same camera sensors, displays etc.)

-For a while HTC was doing 3D displays no one else was. As well as better build quality that others. Now due to brand bloat they're going bust
-Samsung is the big player...but they have gone down the brand bloat path too...and what with that $12,000,000,000 USD lost on the Note7 fiasco are hurting a bit
-LG has been doing interesting features for a while, mods, alternative button configs, DACs and so on


All the Chinese OEMs (1+, ZTE, Xiaomi, etc) all copy everyone else. And they're quite good at it.


All of the above of course suck to varying degrees about hardware or software support or both.

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"Feature phone" is really a reference to basic cellphones, those devices that don't do much more than make calls and send text messages.

I'm suspicious of the OP, to be honest: only three posts over several months, two of which mention Bluboo (a modest Hong Kong phone brand)... and of course, "he" never follows up on threads. Not certain that it's spam, but certainly not someone who has any intention of participating in discussions beyond starting a thread.

It's not hard to understand, that by "future phones" he meant phones with physical dialpad buttons.

I know they http://www.gsmarena.com/cat-phones-89.php make some models and there are some china phone manufacturers like
VKWorld Stone and a few more I don't care to name but other than that I don't know.