Nokia Asha 309

Basic touchscreen feature phones like this one trade smartphone features for simplicity and battery life. The 3.0-inch TFT display runs at 240 x 400 pixels, which is fine for texting and browsing menus but won't do much for photos or video. There's no GPS here, so don't expect turn-by-turn navigation, though Wi-Fi and Bluetooth 3.0 cover the basics for getting online and pairing accessories.

The rear camera is a modest 2MP unit, capturing stills at 1600x1200 and video at a choppy 176x144@10fps. There's no front camera at all, so selfies and video calls are off the table. RAM sits at just 64MB with 128MB of ROM, though a microSD slot lets you add up to 32GB of extra storage. Nokia Asha 309 price in Malaysia starts from RM296.

Battery capacity is a small 1110 mAh Li-Ion cell, but with such a low-power display and no heavy apps to run, it should still stretch across a couple of days of typical calling and texting. At 102g and 13.2mm thick, it's light and pocketable, built more for standby time than screen time.