Comment on Short summary of dumbphone market in 2025
BenchpressMuyDebil@szmer.info 1 day agobuy the cheapest smartphone from alibaba
These feature phones are aimed at people living in countries who don’t have this privilege. If all I could afford is a 20 EUR phone I’d be pretty happy with having the cloud apps that I normally couldn’t be able to use. I’m sure that the executives at HMD don’t ask themselves “are we not violating the definition of the dumbphone?”, they’re trying to make their product attractive to sell the most units. And apparently the ability to watch YT or check cricket scores (the cloud apps), and in the future maybe WhatsApp, are just that.
Though yeah, my post is more about feature phones, not real dumbphones as I wrote in the title.
WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
the ability to watch youtube on a 240x320 screen? at that level, video is heavily compressed. is any text in videos readable? is it possible to discern tools and screws? or is it just a low-level entertainment device effectively?
I have to admit I did not recognize a difference between these two. I thought feature phones and dumb phones are the same category.
BenchpressMuyDebil@szmer.info 1 day ago
Here’s a demo of the cloud youtube playing youtu.be/2VPQ_3SAKi0?t=85 It looks tolerably legible to me. Definitely OK for playing music or dunno, watching soccer recaps or tech videos