As part of a licensing agreement with the company, Microsoft Mobile is allowed to use the Nokia brand on feature phones, such as the Series 40 range. In 2014, Microsoft acquired Nokia's mobile phones business. However, in 20, several Series 40 phones from the Asha line, such as the 308, 309 and 311, were advertised as ' smartphones' although they do not actually support smartphone features like multitasking or a fully fledged HTML browser. It was not used for smartphones, with Nokia turning first to Symbian, then in 2012–2017 to Windows Phone, and most recently Android. Nokia announced on 25 January 2012 that the company has sold over 1.5 billion Series 40 devices.

It was one of the world's most widely used mobile phone platforms and found in hundreds of millions of devices. Shame it is let down so badly.Series 40, often shortened as S40, is a software platform and application user interface (UI) software on Nokia's broad range of mid-tier feature phones, as well as on some of the Vertu line of luxury phones. In fact, the CAT B35’s hardware is excellent. This is just the bugs there are a variety of other ways in which it is more limited than a comparable S40 phone.īattery life is good though. In the end I just gave up and did without a phone for the week long trip to the States.Īh, and sometimes when typing in a number to ring it will double the key-strokes.

For example it consistently crashed back to to the settings menu whilst I was editing the APN settings sometimes saving the changes, sometimes losing them, sometimes deleting the entire setting-set. There are a variety of places around the OS where it crashes in vague ways that are very confusing. “Bob Williams” may not show up if I search for “Williams”, nor even if I search for “Bob” if there are too many “Bob”s in the address book). When you do get a list of results from your search, it isn’t comprehensive (e.g. The contacts list starts entering string into the search bar in numbers, then switches to predictive text after about three seconds. You cannot choose capitalisation in predictive text mode and it won’t automatically capitalise the first letter after a full stop. The British English dictionary is still in large part in American English (but not entirely). For example it often gets confused after entering punctuation and turns the subsequent word into garbage. The predictive text is broken in a variety of ways. But it is a major step back in phoning and texting experience, even compared with a Nokia 1100 (colour and camera aside). It has two advantages over S30 & S40 Google Maps and central notifications. The short version is that I could not recommend anyone use KaiOS. I keep meaning to write a KaiOS review for OS News, based off my experience of the CAT B35 rugged phone.

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