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Not very many people want dumb phones, actually. Certainly not enough for anyone to mass produce the things.
Not true: Dumbphone on Amazon.com. Clearly mass-produced.
Definitely wouldn’t want a dumbphone. Rather the opposite, like a super-smartphone, something like Raspberry Pi inside my pocket (PinePhone may be getting there).
This post got me to try installing Jellyfin server in Termux under proot, only to realize it’s fairly useless for random videos and then wipe it 5 minutes later, but anyway that’s the kind of things I do/want to do with my phone.
And hell, I’d definitely want a keyboard attachment like the PinePhone has.The pinephone is very low end
I rather go with something like this:
https://unplugged.com/products/up-phone
At the very least a degoogled phone.
I’d like a smart phone with the latest Android, a great camera, and a color e-ink display. I’ve yet to find one.
I don’t understand how you are supposed to look at the photos taken with the great camera on an e-ink display?
It’s not about looking at them on that device, it’s about them looking good when viewed on any device, like if I text a photo to my wife and she looks at it on her phone.
I want a device like this to exist, but every single time a company comes out with an e-ink phone, there’s some huge compromise. Usually, it’s the camera.
If you want to eliminate distractions try installing one of the linux phone distros: Sailfish Mobian,Ubuntu Touch,PostmarketOs,Plasma Mobile.
Or just Lineage OS
I used to recommend AOSP but all the apps have been abandoned
I would love to, but it seems they only work in very specific phones. And even then with questionable functionality. It kinda feels like trying to use Linux as a daily driver twenty years ago.
dumb phone like flip phone it is still popular in Japan.
Gonna need proof of this.
Nearly everyone I met was rocking iPhones. It was kinda frustrating as a android user.
https://www.docomo.ne.jp/english/product/feature_phone/. they are still on sale and it is still popular for old people and business persons. Hell, even some flip phone model are even water resistant.
While certainly not the majority, feature phones (known as garakei) enjoy a cult following in Japan.
Bear in mind that feature phones in Japan were a literal decade ahead of smartphones in terms of features. They already had features such as GPS, email, internet browsers latest 90s and early 2000s.
The Mysteries of Japan-Only Phones — sabukaru - https://sabukaru.online/articles/the-mysterious-early-world-of-japans-cellphone-culture
define popular. iphone wiped out almost the entire phone market in Japan.
I got the Apple Watch Ultra 2 several months ago and to my surprise I’ve been leaving my phone home about half the time I leave the house. I can still text and answer a call, got my favorite playlists and albums downloaded to it and my Apple Pay setup. Having a dumb phone alone is probably still a step too far back for me but it’s nice having a simpler device that covers all the basics as well as this watch does. I can definitely see the appeal.
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.
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
Yes. Make the phone look and be as boring as possible. No more doom scrolling.
This boox palma is a thing… https://shop.boox.com/products/palma not sure how good of a phone it is though
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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.
As the actual headline itself says, this is a niche. The editorialized lemmy headline makes it sound like much more than that. Dumb phones still exist, but not many people choose to buy them
dump phone with GPS and google login :v
And email. And whatsapp. And banking. And NFC payments. And…
i just recently found my dumbphone (samsung intensity 2) from right before I got a glowiephone. It has access to email, apps for facebook, myspace, and twitter, and a web browser plus full slideout keyboard. So whatsapp, banking, and NFC shouldn’t be difficult at all. Only issue is that unless the bank makes a dumbphone compatible version of their webbed sight they’d need to make a unique app for every manufacturor ecosystem instead of the relative ease of one android and ios app to rule them all. Or have an API for the manufacturors to make their own doggone apps.
I want a dumb TV!
You can just never connect your TV to the Internet or make it forget all networks, that works pretty well if you have a console or PC hooked into it that is doing the actual content for it
At some point smart TV manufacturers are going to catch on and require Internet, it’s only a matter of time
You still have to deal with the piece of shit taking forever to turn on, and the possibility of it simply dying because any component of the “smart” part died.
In that case you replace the part that died, instead of throwing away everything. (see Hulk meme)
I looked at this when replacing my TV. If you want a nice panel the options are pretty limited, or you have to pay for commercial sets or a projector. I settled on creating separate VLAN for my smarttv and limiting what apps are installed on it and sourcing a blocklist for all its tracking shit.
Only if they can hardwire all the data collection in. That is too big of a money maker for them to give up.
All that data comes almost entirely from apps people install and use.
Sigh I miss my BlackBerry
I miss my T-Mobile Sidekick 3.
I miss my SonyEricsson P910i
Step 1: Reformat your Android phone
Step 2: Turn on ultra power saving mode (this disables everything in the system except a few apps such as phone and messaging)
Step 3: Never connect to the internet
Et voila. You have a dumb phone.
Where’s the ultra power saving mode? I use Pixel
Maybe I just don’t have it on grapheneos or something cause I can’t find it
Now that I’ve seen this… Most of the things people want out of a dumb phone can be accomplished by putting an android on ultra power saving mode. Except physical keyboards.
Or just use Lineage OS with little to no extra apps
