Most feature phones already can run games and other programs.

"These are big growth markets for the feature phone," he said.

It is a full featured phone with a host of features.

Feature phone sales, though, increased 4% from last year and the first quarter.

Those sales added up to 73 million feature phones sold.

The feature phone app space is probably about to get very interesting.

First off, we always assumed our user has nothing more than a feature phone.

It has launched two other feature phones in the market.

This is significant because feature phones are probably not going away anytime soon.

Over the past few years, the program has put more than 12 million wireless feature phones into the hands of low-income Americans.

This doesn't keep feature phone users away from the mobile internet, however.

Choose from a full range of basic and fully featured phones.

At the same time, feature phones are getting smarter and easier to use.

The remaining 210 million were feature phones, which decreased 21 percent from the same period last year.

Solo only released a total of four feature phones throughout that year.

But the feature phone than smartphone users will find the service a little late.

So why do feature phone holders seem to be ignored by many developers?

Because technology changes rapidly, what was a smartphone ten years ago may be considered only a feature phone today.

Consequently, feature phones will likely continue to be a huge part of the mobile market for at least a few more years.

Unlimited mobile Internet access is only available on feature phones.

The company helped develop a feature phone Facebook app earlier this year.

These feature phones have anywhere up to a week.

Feature phones are still dominant in Africa, so this is a helpful addition.

As a result, as of 2015, feature phones are now considered very low quality products.

Of course, wireless carriers would have to play ball for the feature phone app market to grow.

Verizon killed the Kin by charging smartphone prices for a social featurephone.

Try running MeeGo on a mid-range featurephone, which is where Nokia make their money.

Optional menu driven Featurephone provides voicemail monitoring, directory access and is headset compatible.

The Lumia (smartphone) and Asha (featurephone) brands move to Microsoft.

It is a cheap QWERTY featurephone running on Series 40 operating system.

The typical "featurephone" only consumed 6.8MB of data traffic per month - 2 per cent of the amount that the typical smartphone did.

The majority of consumers in Latin America still own a Nokia featurephone and upgrading to an entry level Lumia is a logical next step.

Nokia A2000 is a China-specific featurephone with a QWERTY keypad.

The BT Inspiration Featurephone has a large, easy to read graphic display and simple to follow menus to take you through the relevant options available to you.

Call Manager offers customers the option of using their PC to control their Featurephone and generate customer records for all calls made and received from that extension.

"Apple and Android must focus on a balance between retaining existing customers and attracting featurephone owners to trade up if they want to continue their success over the next year," says Sunnebo.

Kantar said that Windows Phone's growth comes from convincing first-time smartphone buyers to choose one of its devices, with 42 per cent of sales over the past year coming from existing "featurephone" owners.

Nokia A200 is a QWERTY featurephone, with dual-SIM capability and Easy Swap, enabling the user to change SIM cards without having to turn off the device.

Redmond can continue to use the Nokia brand on all current products and can also use it for ten years on any products based on Nokia's Series 30 and Series 40 featurephone platforms.

"Windows Phone's success has been in convincing first time smartphone buyers to choose one of its devices with 42% of sales over the past year coming from existing featurephone owners," says Dominic Sunnebo, strategic insight director at Kantar Worldpanel ComTech.

The Company believes this new generation of smartphone mobile games will enable it to leverage its existing mobile game distribution channels in China and capture market share in the nascent PRC smartphone mobile games market, separate from the Company's existing featurephone mobile game business.