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LoFone is a distraction-free phone with an E Ink Kaleido 3 color display and just a few simple apps - Liliputing (liliputing.com)
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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (6 children)

Web browser is the most insidious of all smartphone apps though.

There really seems to be no decent dumbphones any more. It's a real regression. Bah.

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

Web browser is the most insidious of all smartphone apps though.

Lol, it is, but it's main use is to render my locally-run apps as PWAs

The LoFone uses a custom OS (I didn't read far enough yet to get much more info than that), but hopefully there's an SDK for it.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (4 children)

The Lophone sounds less and less promising I'm afraid. Wonder what it will cost. I sometimes think of trying to write an android app that turns an android phone into a dumbphone. I need it for a family member who gets horribly confused by smart phones.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Can you do something like a phone running Lineage, DivestOS, or Graphene, then tweak it so it's using a limiting shell (like the simple home setup available on Samsungs)?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Yeah look up "kiosk mode" in Android. It locks your app on the screen so nothing else can run.

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