Self-labelled neo-Luddites and the tech-stressed are searching for phones with fewer features. Industry experts cite precarious profit margins and a wobbly market around this need.
@eran_morad@lemmy.world
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lol no

No

I rather go with something like this:

https://unplugged.com/products/up-phone

At the very least a degoogled phone.

@Bruhh@lemmy.world
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I just want a repairable phone with a headphone jack.

@Peffse@lemmy.world
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throw in a microSD card slot and I’m sold

@tux7350@lemmy.world
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The name is silly but the Galaxy XCover 6 pro checks all those boxes as a new phone. It even has the old style notification light, different colors for notifications.

billwashere
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Dumb phones don’t have all the gooey “track everything we do” goodness in the middle so I doubt it.

@stoly@lemmy.world
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The new ones would surely do that.

@TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world
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Exactly. If dumbphones made a comeback, companies would simply achieve it by presenting the user with a dumb UI while the data harvesting would still go on in the background.

I guess there’s the valid argument that you’d be doing less on your phone so there’d be less to spy on, but there’d still be spying, and much of it would simply be shifted to the user’s PC instead of a smartphone. Guess what, spying is rife there too.

The answer to stopping the spying is privacy laws that put people, and their privacy, above tax-dodging multinationals.

@stoly@lemmy.world
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I had the same take–less going on to exfiltrate.

I want a real software dev team for linux phones. I don’t have programming knowledge, but I can pitch in for a reoccurring crowdfund to pay them. The Pinephone is nice hardware, but Pine64 has always said that they’re leaving the software up to the community.

@Dagamant@lemmy.world
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I want a dumb phone that acts as a hotspot for my tablet and other devices.

I had an LG and a Kyocera back in the day that could do that. They had some small non-connected games. Of course I couldn’t do much with the hotspot as this was on 3G.

Someone64
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You can already buy those. They seem to commonly be referred to in online stores as ‘pocket wifi’. Just stick a sim card in them and you can manage their settings through any connected device with a web browser.

@Dagamant@lemmy.world
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You can’t use them as a phone though. And dumb phones that do somehow support tethering don’t do so at modern speeds.

@aluminium@lemmy.world
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No, I rather have a smarter phone without all the current day B.S.

@Sam_Bass@lemmy.world
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Drop all the corporate inclusions and youll sell more

@Evotech@lemmy.world
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Dumb phones exist though?

I don’t want a dumb phone. I want a circa 2014 smart phone that is not expected to replace my laptop and serve as a constant data stream for corporations. I want to be able to visit a website on my phone and not have it try to get me to download an app, be ads on 70% of the screen, or just be unreadable formatting. Let me call, text, do a basic online search, play a stupid flash game, and take my money. Stop being greedy and trying to make everything I do monetizable

@fpslem@lemmy.world
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2014 phones also fit in my hand. I miss that size, you can’t even find them now.

@olympicyes@lemmy.world
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Dumb phones don’t help you for tickets, boarding passes, tap to pay, etc. those things require strong security, not the latest tech. I’ve got a few teenage kids and even for them it’s not very practical to exist without a smartphone.

I want to be able to pull up an 80% version of a website on my phone, and have a button to open the full website on my computer for when I get home.

Resol van Lemmy
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I’m starting to miss my iPhone 4

@AbidanYre@lemmy.world
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As long as you didn’t hold it wrong.

Resol van Lemmy
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I got it long after the Antennagate problem got fixed. I believe iOS 4.3 was out when I first bought it.

TheRealKuni
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Was Antennagate fixed? Or did people just learn not to hold it in the wrong place?

I thought it was about physical placement of the antenna, I’d be surprised if a software update fixed it.

Resol van Lemmy
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It’s probably a mix of both.

I loved my LG v10 and galaxy s5. Those phones just worked and worked great for a long time.

Resol van Lemmy
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I wonder why companies can’t just make something as good as these again.

@ATDA@lemmy.world
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I’ve been getting my family into lora. It’s nice just having Ubuntu that texts. I still use my phone for mobile connectivity as a hot spot but apps are largely going un updated, and their silly ads unviewed.

Obviously not the solution for everyone but damn its freeing if you can.

@recapitated@lemmy.world
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I want a phone that has an eink display but an ecosystem for apps. I want my battery to last weeks, I want my communications conduits to be dead simple, and I want to be able to run an OTP authenticator on it.

If the thing I’m expected to have becomes highly useful for the things I’m expected to have it for while also interrupting my bad habit tendencies, I think it would be a good fit for me.

@iopq@lemmy.world
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Do you want e-ink or would you rather have a Gameboy display? Transreflective LCD can be a lot faster and have better colors. You can even add a backlight

@aceshigh@lemmy.world
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Yes. Make the phone look and be as boring as possible. No more doom scrolling.

@soEZ@lemmy.world
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This boox palma is a thing… https://shop.boox.com/products/palma not sure how good of a phone it is though

june (she/her)
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Iirc the Palma doesn’t have a sim slot thus can’t be used as a full fledged phone. The Hisense line of phones (such as the A9 Pro) do have sim slots and run android but I don’t think even they last weeks.

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@Jtotheb@lemmy.world
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I thought I wanted a dumber phone. Not a flip phone necessarily, but not a pocket supercomputer. I looked at the majority of options out there and concluded that (ignoring the ones that are basically just running Android) they’re all missing a feature or two I really like, like the Light Phone looks great but I listen to audiobooks on Libby all the time. So then I just decided to delete a bunch of stuff from my iPhone, and then I didn’t get around to that so I still just have the same phone. 🤦‍♀️

Person: has problem

Person: attempts to fix

Person: fails

Person: attempts band-aid fix.

Person realizes they have no motivation, and just lives with the problem.

This is where we’re at America.

@buzz86us@lemmy.world
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Why? Just download a copy of android without gapps

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