[sravfeyn]

This news may sound exciting/disappointing to the developed countries, but it is certainly extremely disappointing for people in third-world countries, especially India.

It is not at all hyperbole to say 'Nokia played a key role in India's mobile penetration'. They sell affordable, reliable and rigid phones for rough use in rural places of India. And I think it's true for most other countries like Africa. On the other hand Microsoft mostly makes premium software and hardware. I don't know any affordable tool(w.r.t developing countries) from Microsoft. This may put Microsoft in a better position in terms of smartphone. But in other terms this may be a step towards 'diminishing power of poor people'.

[vshade]

On the other hand, the low end lumias are more usable than most of same priced android phones in Brazil, I know that here and parts of africa is the way the market is going. I hope they don't stop serving this market.

[avemuri]

The low end android sets made by Micromax, Lava etc. are priced very affordably (Rs3000-5000/$50-80). And the market is still flooded with even cheaper feature phones. I don't see how the power of poor people is diminished.

[gtirloni]

Motorola is building featurephones until this day. Lots of them. Nokia is not going to abandon that market (India's) anytime soon while they are selling there. I would not worry about it too much.