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Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish • 10 months ago

People want 'dumbphones'. Will companies make them?

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People want 'dumbphones'. Will companies make them?

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Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish • 10 months ago

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.

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Vaggumon
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28•10 months ago
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
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  Yeah but this type of story doesn’t generate click bait headline.
- @refalo@programming.dev
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  2•10 months ago
  
  TCL
  
  not even once

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