Can't afford a smartphone? That's going to cost you

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6 points·limit499karma··4 comments

I've only had a smart phone for almost 2 years and I am ready to move back to a dumb phone. It just doesn't align with me personally. I use the phone for voice and text SMS and that's it. I've never once browsed a website from it and I do not install applications. If the future requires a smart phone then I will live outside that walled garden. All of that said, given my poor cell site coverage I do like the VoWiFi SIP capabilities so maybe I can find a dumb phone that can do sip. Maybe something like the Nokia 2720 flip but without FB/Google junk.

Yeah, it's nearing time to replace my smartphone and I absolutely don't want to replace it with another smartphone. I'm struggling to find a real dumbphone, though. The ones that I've found that purport to be one (including the Nokia 2720) aren't dumbphones, they're minimalistic smartphones.

I fear that there is no non-smartphone option on the market anymore.

I fear that there is no non-smartphone option on the market anymore.

I suspect you are right. I keep finding phones that pretend to be dumb phones but it often turns out they are running Android and that leads me down the hole of trying to find others that were able to use adb to mostly de-google and that's even less likely than finding results for my less popular ulefone.

> it often turns out they are running Android

Or KaiOS.

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