[mowfask]

So Nokia finally built the feature-phone of the smartphone-era: cheap, long battery life, good durability (probably) and incredibly ugly.

[koralatov]

It might not be astoundingly pretty, but ``incredibly ugly'' seems a bit of a stretch.

[mowfask]

Low screen/front-size ratio, big fonts to compensate low resolution, flat UI and "clever" menu layout to compensate low contrast. Consumer expectations are high these days...

[koralatov]

...for high-end phones.

For a $99 `feature phone' expectations are commensurately lower; I don't think anyone would buy this phone expecting something that's equivalent to an iPhone 5 or a Galaxy S4. They'll buy it because it's cheap, cute, does everything they want, and it has great battery-life.

[hkmurakami]

trust me, regular feature phones are far uglier than this new Nokia phone (I still use one from 2011 as a secondary phone)