The £13 mobile: Nokia unveils cheap handset you only need to charge once a month (LOOK)

If you’re fed up with charging your smartphone every night – not to mention trawling through hundreds of features just to make a call – then you’re in luck.

Nokia has unveiled a simple £13 mobile phone that can last for 35 days on a single charge.

It is aimed at emerging markets where electricity is rare, but could also be sold as a back-up phone.

The £13 Nokia 105 mobile phone, which can last for 35 days on a single charge and will cost just £13 when it goes on sale in the coming weeksThe £13 Nokia 105 mobile phone, which can last for 35 days on a single charge and will cost just £13 when it goes on sale in the coming weeksThe Nokia 105, which is set to go on sale within weeks, has a colour screen, built-in torch and an FM radio.

THE £13 MOBILE

Size: 107 x 44.8 x 14.3 mm

Weight: 70g (including battery)

Display: 1.45” 65k Colour TFT

Memory: 8MB ROM

Battery: standby time: up to 35 days; talk time: up to 12.5 hours

Source: Nokia

It’s now the cheapest phone in the Finnish firm’s range, and was hailed as ‘the ultimate festival phone’ at its launch.

A spokesman for Nokia said: ‘The phone was created to offer the essentials – phone calls and SMS – but also some desirable extras.

Nokia’s experience in optimising phone quality, combined with its global footprint and economies of scale, is a major contributor to being able to work to such a low price.’

The firm also used the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona to launch three other low-cost devices, including a £120 smartphone, the Lumia 520.

Experts predict this will be a big year for cheap smartphones, as firms try to attract customers in the developing world.

Nokia's £13 mobile is set go go on sale later this year, and is expected to be aimed at emerging markets as well as being targetted as a 'backup phone' in Europe.Nokia’s £13 mobile is set go go on sale later this year, and is expected to be aimed at emerging markets as well as being targetted as a ‘backup phone’ in Europe.

The smartphone, which operates with Windows 8, could be perfect for colder countries with its super-sensitive touch-screen technology, meaning it can be used while wearing gloves, the firm said.

But with experts predicting a big year for cheap smartphones as developers try to make inroads into the developing world, the Lumia 520 could be seen in India or Africa more than Scandinavia.

The phone also comes with a 5-megapixel camera and access to the music streaming service Nokia Music.

Those two phones were launched alongside the Lumia 720, which Nokia are pitching at ‘socialites’, and the £56 ‘candybar’-style 301.

CEO of Nokia Corporation Stephen Elop unveils the firm's new range of of phones at the 2013 Mobile World Congress in BarcelonaCEO of Nokia Corporation Stephen Elop unveils the firm’s new range of of phones at the 2013 Mobile World Congress in Barcelona
Nokia's £120 smartphone, which runs Microsoft's Windows Phone 8 software, and has a screen that can be operated while wearing glovesNokia’s £120 smartphone, which runs Microsoft’s Windows Phone 8 software, and has a screen that can be operated while wearing gloves

Nokia CEO Stephen Elop told a press conference at MWC: ‘Today we’re introducing the world’s most innovative portfolio of products.

‘For Nokia the building blocks are in place and now we have to make sure that all of this capability, all of this beauty in design, everything that we have done in terms of great product making is put into the hands of consumers and that’s what we’re focused on today.’

  • Samsung will unveil the next generation of its Galaxy smartphone in New York City next month. It comes after Apple overtook Samsung as the top mobile phone seller in the US in the fourth quarter of 2012.

Daily Mail UK

Comments (3)

  1. Great stuff you guys did especially with the 920 lumnia. Heard about the nokia city lens and other stuffs it has on it. Nokia is truly the smartest phone now! Welldone guys

  2. That is a great product and I appreciate you for that,I can even say it is because of Nigeria you manufactured it while electricity is handicap. I will be much appreciative if I can know exact period or time that will be selling it,I have much interest in it to buy

  3. That is a great product and I appreciate you for that,I can even say it is because of Nigeria you manufactured it while electricity is handicap. I will be much appreciative if I can know exact period or time that will be selling it,I have much interest in it tlo buy

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