[Electronics-Talk] Feature phones and smart phones [was "Re: LGflip phone [was "Re: Android Cellphones: Are They Worth It"]"] [Feature Phone]

[Christopher Chaltain]

Well, as Jim says, this can be subjective, but as I said, I consider 
Nokia phones running Symbian to be smart phones, and the N95 is such a 
phone. The fact that you can install 3rd party applications, in my mind, 
is the key feature that separates smart phones from feature phones. You 
can install Symbian and Java applications to the N95.

On 27/03/16 17:26, Pamela Dominguez via Electronics-Talk wrote:
> How about phones like the n95?  Pam.
>
> -----Original Message----- From: Christopher Chaltain via Electronics-Talk
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> Cc: Christopher Chaltain
> Subject: Re: [Electronics-Talk] Feature phones and smart phones [was
> "Re: LGflip phone [was "Re: Android Cellphones: Are They Worth It"]"]
> [Feature Phone]
>
> I'll just echo this and go one step further. I think a smart hone gives
> you the ability to install 3rd party apps whereas this ability is
> limited if not impossible on a feature phone. I would consider Nokia
> phones running Windows Phone to be smart phones. Ditto for the Nokia
> phones that used to run Symbian. Nokia did also sell feature phones, but
> I can't recall what the name of that platform was. I think they were
> called Series 40 phones, as opposed to the smart phones running Symbian,
> which I think were called Series 60 phones.
>
> On 27/03/16 12:56, Jim Barbour via Electronics-Talk wrote:
>> A feature phone as a phone that does not have all the capabilities of
>> a smart phone. Usually a feature phone can make calls, read mail, send
>> texts, and maybe one or two other things. I would classify the Nokia
>> phones as feature phones, and I would classify the iPhone is a smart
>> phone. The boundaries are somewhat mushy, so others may classify them
>> slightly differently.
>>
>> Jim
>>
>> Written While on the Move
>>
>>> On Mar 27, 2016, at 9:20 AM, cheez via Electronics-Talk
>>> <electronics-talk at nfbnet.org> wrote:
>>>
>>> Forgive my ignorance, for I am not familiar with this item, but, what
>>> in the world is a feature phone?
>>>
>>> Vince
>>>
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>>>
>>>> HI
>>>> I don't have a clue what security issues you are talking about in
>>>> regard to feature phones.  Perhaps mine isn't a feature phone.
>>>> There is nothing private on my phone that anyone can't get out of a
>>>> phone book.
>>>>
>>>> Marsha
>>>>
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