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curbstickle@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 week agoWhile 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.
helenslunch@feddit.nl 1 week ago
And who decided these definitions, and what makes them an authority?
curbstickle@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 week ago
Several decades of phone technology as it developed…
helenslunch@feddit.nl 1 week ago
…so you just made it up then.
No one has done that. The only comments I’m downvoting are the ones spreading disinformation.
curbstickle@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 week ago
No, the phone industry made up these terms.
So how I read that is “Anything that isn’t what I want it to say is disinformation”.
Well, enjoy your day buddy, my participation in this thread is over. Its a neat feature phone, and that’s where I’ll be leaving that.
paraphrand@lemmy.world 1 week ago
The Wikipedia page for feature phone looks to have been started in 2011.
The iPhone was introduced in 2007 and popularized Smart Phones to a point that Feature Phone grew in use enough to warrant a Wikipedia entry a few years later.
You better head over to Wikipedia to fix the misinformation issue they have had for over a decade now.