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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 ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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 ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  And who decided these definitions, and what makes them an authority?
  
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  - curbstickle@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
    Several decades of phone technology as it developed…
    
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    helenslunch@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
    
    Several decades of phone technology as it developed…
    
    …so you just made it up then.
    
    why are you just down voting everyone replying providing you with info?
    
    No one has done that. The only comments I’m downvoting are the ones spreading disinformation.
    
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Manifish_Destiny@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
Since we’re just making up definitions, a dumb phone is now a type of salad.

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- paraphrand@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  I need to get more dumb phones in my diet.
  
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- helenslunch@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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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