feature phone

What people really think of the Microsoft-Nokia nostalgia phone

What people really think of the Microsoft-Nokia nostalgia phone

Will modern India spend on a feature phone?
Nivedita Bhattacharjee · · 3 min read
Canada’s Play It Interactive closes $1.1m funding round, moves in on India

Canada’s Play It Interactive closes $1.1m funding round, moves in on India

Play It Interactive, the Canadian mobile content platform that enables feature phone and Android users to take part in cloud-based social gaming, has announced the opening of an Indian head
Mary-Anne Lee · · 2 min read
This SMS-based social network now on Indonesia’s largest telco

This SMS-based social network now on Indonesia’s largest telco

Telkomsel – Indonesia’s biggest telco – now supports a new service dedicated to its feature phone users on Friday called KLYQME (read as “click me”).
Enricko Lukman · · 2 min read
Telkomsel’s Video 500 wants its 100 million feature phone users to stream more videos

Telkomsel’s Video 500 wants its 100 million feature phone users to stream more videos

Telkomsel, Indonesia’s largest mobile telco, launched its new premium video service for feature phone users called Video 500 this week.
Enricko Lukman · · 2 min read

Singapore’s Mig33 looks to smartphone era, rebrands as microblogging platform

It’s been a while since we last heard about Mig33, a social network for feature phones based in Singapore. The company is revealing today that it’s heading towards a different
Enricko Lukman · · 4 min read

Agate Studio Enters Feature Phone Gaming Battle in Indonesia With New Social Platform

One of Perang Mistis’ cards – Rangda Today, Indonesian game developer Agate Studio launched its newest game made for feature phone users in Indonesia. Called Perang Mistis (meaning “mystical battle”),
Enricko Lukman · · 2 min read

Adways Indonesia Releases First Feature Phone Title on Kotagames

Adways Indonesia, a subsidiary of the Japanese advertising company Adways, released its first feature phone game with game publisher Kotagames last week. It’s called ‘Musica Sphere.’ Vincent Wang, the VP
Enricko Lukman · · 2 min read

Kotagames Loves Sexy Girls: Beta Launches Hisho Collection Game

[Updated on October 23: I’d like to clarify that Hisho Collection Mall Empire was developed by Singapore’s Daylight Studios with Japan’s Konami Digital Entertainment acting as the game publisher. Kotagames
Enricko Lukman · · 1 min read

Kotagames’ Felix Ramli Shares his Recipe for Great Feature Phone Games

During the Startup Asia Bandung Hackathon, Felix Ramli, the director of feature phone game developer Kotagames and also the founder of Indonesian video game developer training center GameLevelOne.com, shared his
Enricko Lukman · · 3 min read

Ngomik: Working With Telcos to Sell Comics Makes Us Very Happy

Ngomik.com is one of the few Indonesian startups to focus on the low-end feature phone industry, and the company is making some cash from it too. We caught up with
Enricko Lukman · · 2 min read