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People want 'dumbphones'. Will companies make them? (www.bbc.com)
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[–] 520@kbin.social 58 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Uh, they DO still make dumb phones. And people still buy them.

[–] Vaggumon@lemm.ee 28 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Yep, 79 year old father in law has a brand new dumb phone with a t-9 keypad, made by TCL. Works perfectly fine.

[–] applepie@kbin.social 19 points 6 months ago

Yeah but this type of story doesn't generate click bait headline.

[–] refalo@programming.dev 1 points 6 months ago

TCL

not even once

[–] hagelslager@feddit.nl 9 points 6 months ago (2 children)

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).

[–] 520@kbin.social 3 points 6 months ago

Yep. They even made a new 3310.

[–] refalo@programming.dev -1 points 6 months ago

proprietary Chinese processor (Unisoc) AND operating system (Mocor), nothx