They all realized a $100 phone does the same shit as a $1500 phone… There is nothing they add to the expensive phones that justify the price
I heard cassettes are making a comeback too.
If I was not disabled with way too much time to burn, and where the weight of a phone is ideal, I would go back to a dumb flip phone like this. Smart phones are an addiction that, at best, must be consciously managed. Heck, I’m beside my workstation procrastinating right now.
Has anyone found cell only and cheap service (<$20/mo)? (USA) If I have a feature phone, I don’t want data. I looked for years and failed.
Edit: I had failed to notice I am in a thread over a year old.
Mint is under that price. It includes a capped amount of data too, you can just not use it.
Edit: ah, for fucks sake. I fell fore the same thing. Necro’d post.
Havent seen “$100 feature phone” since 2017 when my grandpa upgraded his phone
- gen zThe favored Nokia flip phone I have seen the kids using was still sub $100 unlocked on Amazon at the start of the year. It could be over $100 now, but it was definitely that low before. It was $70 when I got one for my daughter the previous year when she asked for a flip phone.
As if we needed another sign that ZDnet was trash…
I fucking hate these obviously bullshit articles. “Gen Z is using feature phones”, “Gen Z are using paper maps”, “Gen Z is doing XYZ”.
No, they aren’t. At best some sad excuse for a journalist found a handful of tweets and wrote a whole article on it like it’s a “trend”.
Look, I know “journalists” are being squeezed to produce at an unreasonable rate but if you write drivel like this then you have no business calling yourself a journalist, hell I don’t even think you can call yourself a “writer” or “contributor” either. It barely passes as writing and you are contributing nothing to society.
