Comment on Mudita Kompakt - E-ink (truly) dumbphone with FOSS OS.

athairmor@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• Teanut@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Mobile phones in the era before smartphones had cameras, email clients, games, music players, and even web browsers. They just weren’t very good at those functions and their core feature was being a phone for voice calls. Texting was barely a feature on some of them (the first camera phone in the United States, the Sanyo SCP-5300, didn’t have a two way text messaging client - the user had to go to a website on the phone to send texts, which was inconvenient even on a 1xRTT 3G connection.)

  The e-ink phone seems closer to a dumbphone than a smartphone, IMO, largely because it lacks access to an app store.

  Source: I sold mobile phones before smartphones and during the early smartphone years (BlackBerry and Palm Treo, for example.)

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• helenslunch@feddit.nl ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I disagree. A dumbphone (in my opinion) is a phone that does everything you need and nothing you don’t. And especially one that DOES NOT run Android. Email is unfortunately essential in the modern age.

  But you do you, fam.

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  • curbstickle@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    While I get your opinion, these things have definitions. Here’s a super simple version:

    • A dumb phone does not connect to the internet. Its a phone. Just a dumb device.
    • A feature phone is what you’re referring to here, where it may connect to the internet, but isn’t part of some larger ecosystem and is certainly not an app-first approach. Its a phone first, ancillary features are a bonus.
    • Smartphones are your android and iOS devices, which connect to the internet, is part of a large ecosystem of applications, is an internet first oriented device, etc.

    So yes, this is a feature phone from what I’ve read of the translation.

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    • helenslunch@feddit.nl ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      And who decided these definitions, and what makes them an authority?

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      • curbstickle@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Several decades of phone technology as it developed…

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  • Manifish_Destiny@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Since we’re just making up definitions, a dumb phone is now a type of salad.

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    • paraphrand@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I need to get more dumb phones in my diet.

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    • helenslunch@feddit.nl ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Just because we have different interpretations doesn’t mean we’re “making up definitions”. Who made you the definitive authority?

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