People still use Symbian?!
Yes. The latest Asha line of models from Nokia is quite good. They've put good build quality and decent features into ~100 EUR devices. They've also mixed in features from other kinds of phones, such as QWERTY physical keyboards and Exchange support from business phones, or touch screens and Youtube video playback from smartphones. The screen resolutions are crappy, but it's suprising how well a small package of features can satisfy a casual user. And the S40 app support is also suprisingly solid.
To give you an example, I've asked a friend who has an Asha 302, here's what they do with it off the top of my head: web browsing with Opera Mini (mostly feed/news reading, checking forecast, Googling or Wikipedia); Exchange sync (email, calendar, contacts) for work; email support for popular providers (Yahoo, Google) as well as custom accounts (including stuff like secure IMAP etc.); Google Maps, Skype, Facebook, Shazam, YouTube; data-texting with Skype, Viber or WhatsApp; snapping pics and video (crappy quality, but bearable); music player and FM radio; apparently there's also MobiPocket (ebook reader) available for S40. She also has some obscure little S40 games she's been carrying around for years from phone to phone.
And of course it's 90% about talking and texting on the phone, all the above is only the other 10%. I guess that's what makes the difference. Some people want the phone to be just a phone, mostly.