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[–] [email protected] 58 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Uh, they DO still make dumb phones. And people still buy them.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Yep, 79 year old father in law has a brand new dumb phone with a t-9 keypad, made by TCL. Works perfectly fine.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 5 months ago

Yeah but this type of story doesn't generate click bait headline.

[–] refalo 1 points 5 months ago

TCL

not even once

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Yeah, for around 20-30 euros you can get a cheap Nokia branded phone as far as I'm aware (105 and 106 series for example).

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

Yep. They even made a new 3310.

[–] refalo -1 points 5 months ago

proprietary Chinese processor (Unisoc) AND operating system (Mocor), nothx