Feature Phones Are Here To Stay

Defying all doomsday predictions, feature phones remain well entrenched in many geographies including India and Africa.

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With phenomenal rise in popularity and adoption of smartphones, obituary of feature phones were being penned but feature phones have not only survived but continue to thrive in India and many countries of Africa and Asia. Globally, more than 400 million feature phones were sold in 2016 and the number could go up by 3% this year. Together with Africa and India, there are no less than 1.3 billion feature phone users globally!