“It’s the first time a feature phone can behave as though it had a real OS,” Enderle said.
“Third-world residents just love this; they can’t afford smartphones,” he said.
India added 15 million new mobile telephone service subscribers in January alone, while China has more than a half-billion mobile telephone users, Microsoft said.
Microsoft is talking with potential OneApp partners worldwide and did not disclose how it plans to make money from the feature-phone platform.
“We have heard from mobile telephone operators around the planet,” Mital said.
“We certainly believe more customers for all participants in this ecosystem will result in substantially more business opportunity,” he said.
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