I seriously doubt the fact that this phone will be able to make a dent in the Indian market. Just look at its price tag, it costs you around Rs. 2000($30) The basic internet pack charges (2g) is around Rs 130($2) per month. A person who is ready to take a subscription of $2 per month, will be able to afford a better phone with Android which won't cost him more than 3k.
One thing that I want to see in such type of phones is whatsapp support with an extremely good battery life. If such a phone comes up, it will be second phone for every person who is suffering from the battery problem of android ecosystem.
MS needs to preinstall whatsapp , otherwise a lot of people will prefer a phone with whatsapp pre-installed, I know that most of us would laugh about it, but believe me, In my country people buy phones just because the box has these logos: whatsapp, FB, twitter.
>"will be able to afford a better phone with Android which won't cost him more than 3k."
You are assuming that a cheap Android would offer a good experience. I won't have another Android precisely because I had a poor experience with 2 cheap Android phones.
I don't know which OS this phone runs, but the Series 40 platform which used to ship on Nokia devices in this segment was able to run WhatsApp. The thing is, S40 never really felt "finished". It had these tiny little things which just made you drive nuts because there wasn't a way to fix it. Over time I thought it would be amazing if S40 would get open sourced for people to flash modified versions.
One thing that I want to see in such type of phones is whatsapp support with an extremely good battery life. If such a phone comes up, it will be second phone for every person who is suffering from the battery problem of android ecosystem.