Almost every dumbphone worth knowing about (slowerliving.club)
8 points by speckx 3 days ago
nzjrs 21 minutes ago
Nice idea but it's a shame the website text is in claudish
onli 14 minutes ago
The first phone in that list isn't a dumbphone - Clicks Communicator is a full-on smartphone, just with a keyboard. Same goes for the Unihertz Titan 2 and some others on the list.
JojoFatsani 3 days ago
It’s pretty absurd how these are so expensive given they’re trying to recreate 25-30 year old technology..
vinckr 23 minutes ago
I just thought the same thing. Most of them cost double what my refurbished iPhone cost. To be fair there is a category for fairly cheap ones too: https://slowerliving.club/phones/?category=Cheap+entry+point...
But why would someone pay $675 to $1,235 plus $18/mo membership for a locked down iPhone without browser and apps - surely there is a way to lock them down yourself if you really want to.
edit: reading a bit further I find the LLM-prose on the website really jarring. Maybe I'm unfair here but it just reads like written by a machine.
AnodicElegy 17 minutes ago
Yeah, it's nuts, these are significantly more expensive than a low-end smartphone. I hope by the time my kid's a preteen there will be enough of a market for dumb phones that there will be cheaper options. I would think almost any parent would want one for their kid at some point.
jswelker 4 minutes ago
I have had good luck with an old candy bar style dumb phone from Jethro Mobile for my teen.
oldsklgdfth 20 minutes ago
I have the same response. In mind a dumb phone is sub $100. More feels like virtue signaling some tech stoicism.
For that money and less you can get an older smartphone and strip it down yourself if you are inclined.
Or use accessibility settings (on iOS) to make it much less appealing to stare at.
asim 19 minutes ago
Yea I think you have to Google "burner phone" and you get the more accurate dumb phones we're all thinking of