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Nokia 1 review: Could it be the best low-end phone ever?

NAIROBI, KENYA: Reminiscing on my Campus life 10 years ago, my significant other had a cellphone that – at the time, to me, and like everyone else, considered as the gold standard for beauty, this side of the Sahara. The Ideos had just come out and it sold like hotcake. Huawei gave us the U8150 running on Google’s flagship OS, android. I must admit, this phone became dear to me as soon as I understood how to use it. I could hardly gather the courage to whip out my then phone –the Nokia 3310 – a handset that was tougher than my life.

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