sponsored trash like this should be banned, along with the bot users posting it
Doubt.
Haven’t seen a flip phone in use in ages and I work among the public. Even the barely functional elderly on smartphones.
Who paid for this article? What’s their angle?
These articles of “Gen Z is doing X” is always wrong lol.
I heard cassettes are making a comeback too.
I Can see this trend growing, I’m apart of buying older refurbished phones.
For the past 10 years I never bought a phone for more than 300 euros.
I usually get a new phone every 3 years to have the latest tech and donate or recycle the old one.
For the last year I had an iPhone 13 pro (usually goes around 1100 euro) as a work phone and my personal Redmi Note 11 Pro I bought for 270 euros and not once I told myself: Man, this iphone is at least 3 times better than my Xiaomi. It’s clearly a premium product but a middle category budget phone can match most features and even more. I still have a headphone jack, bigger 120 Hz screen, IR blaster and an amazing fingerprint sensor.
If I was not disabled with way too much time to burn, and where the weight of a phone is ideal, I would go back to a dumb flip phone like this. Smart phones are an addiction that, at best, must be consciously managed. Heck, I’m beside my workstation procrastinating right now.
They all realized a $100 phone does the same shit as a $1500 phone… There is nothing they add to the expensive phones that justify the price
Havent seen “$100 feature phone” since 2017 when my grandpa upgraded his phone
- gen zThe favored Nokia flip phone I have seen the kids using was still sub $100 unlocked on Amazon at the start of the year. It could be over $100 now, but it was definitely that low before. It was $70 when I got one for my daughter the previous year when she asked for a flip phone.
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Has anyone found cell only and cheap service (<$20/mo)? (USA) If I have a feature phone, I don’t want data. I looked for years and failed.
Edit: I had failed to notice I am in a thread over a year old.
Mint is under that price. It includes a capped amount of data too, you can just not use it.
Edit: ah, for fucks sake. I fell fore the same thing. Necro’d post.
As if we needed another sign that ZDnet was trash…
I fucking hate these obviously bullshit articles. “Gen Z is using feature phones”, “Gen Z are using paper maps”, “Gen Z is doing XYZ”.
No, they aren’t. At best some sad excuse for a journalist found a handful of tweets and wrote a whole article on it like it’s a “trend”.
Look, I know “journalists” are being squeezed to produce at an unreasonable rate but if you write drivel like this then you have no business calling yourself a journalist, hell I don’t even think you can call yourself a “writer” or “contributor” either. It barely passes as writing and you are contributing nothing to society.
