For all the attention we pay to smartphones, it’s easy to forget that their older siblings -- feature phones -- are alive and well. They are still
used by hundreds of millions of people, and have innovated in their own ways over the years.
The
Qin AI Phone -- a feature handset created by Shenzhen Qin Technology -- is now on Xiaomi’s crowdfunding platform. (Yeah, Xiaomi has a crowdfunding platform.) With less than one day to go, the project has already surpassed its funding goal of US$1,450 by a whopping 1640 times, attracting some 58,000 backers.