Uses an Android phone when he has to browse the web, just click on a image or watch YouTube videos. However, he uses his Nokia 105 feature phone for personal and do the job calls, simply because he finds it handy and its long battery backup is especially very beneficial when he's travelling to distant areas to get the work. Users enjoy sing are the reason the feature phone market remains thriving. More than a billion feature phones are expected to be sold within the subsequent few years, generating around $16 billion cumulatively in hardware revenue, according to a March report by Counterpoint Research. Even the fact that many people are still not ready to make the change from feature phone to smartphone is also causing a slowdown from the smartphone market. In fact, an August report by Gartner reported that smartphone sales declined 2.3percent as compared to last year. Feature phones are nevertheless relevant to certain consumer segments, especially those at the base of