Remember the Nokia 2705 Shade that we mentioned a few days ago? Well, good news for consumers that want this basic cellphone… thanks to interchangeable covers you can now match the phone with the color of what your clothes, be it black, red, blue or purple. Cool, isn’t it?

In terms of specifications this is probably one of the most low-end phones Nokia has ever released in recent years: only 62MB of internal memory, and no way to increase memory capacity because there isn’t a microSD slot. I guess this is a simple cellphone for simple people that aren’t interested in top notch technology.

Not much is known about the Nokia 2705 Shade except for the fact that it will be joining the Verizon ranks as one of many entry-level cellphones later this year, but just know that while it’s no N97, it could be just what you are looking for if you are on the hunt for an affordable, good-looking flip phone in the near future.  The Shade is expected to replace the Nokia Mirage on Verizon when it is released and looking at the similarities between the two feature phones, could we expect the same kind of low-end features that we saw on the Mirage or something better, like an improved camera and some type of social networking support? It looks like at least the camera might see a tiny bump as the Shade 2705 has a dedicated camera key, which could turn out to be pretty useless if it houses any lens that is less than 2 megapixels.  We will be on the lookout for anything else that might pop up on this low-end fella, but take the jump for a couple more pictures until then.

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