@return2ozma@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish • 1 month agoPeople want 'dumbphones'. Will companies make them?www.bbc.comexternal-linkmessage-square258fedilinkarrow-up1477arrow-down131
arrow-up1446arrow-down1external-linkPeople want 'dumbphones'. Will companies make them?www.bbc.com@return2ozma@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish • 1 month agomessage-square258fedilink
minus-square520linkfedilink58•1 month agoUh, they DO still make dumb phones. And people still buy them.
minus-squareVaggumonlinkfedilinkEnglish28•1 month agoYep, 79 year old father in law has a brand new dumb phone with a t-9 keypad, made by TCL. Works perfectly fine.
minus-squareapplepielinkfedilink18•1 month agoYeah but this type of story doesn’t generate click bait headline.
minus-square@hagelslager@feddit.nllinkfedilinkEnglish9•1 month agoYeah, for around 20-30 euros you can get a cheap Nokia branded phone as far as I’m aware (105 and 106 series for example).
minus-square@refalo@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglish-1•1 month agoproprietary Chinese processor (Unisoc) AND operating system (Mocor), nothx
Uh, they DO still make dumb phones. And people still buy them.
Yep, 79 year old father in law has a brand new dumb phone with a t-9 keypad, made by TCL. Works perfectly fine.
Yeah but this type of story doesn’t generate click bait headline.
not even once
Yeah, for around 20-30 euros you can get a cheap Nokia branded phone as far as I’m aware (105 and 106 series for example).
Yep. They even made a new 3310.
proprietary Chinese processor (Unisoc) AND operating system (Mocor), nothx