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Mudita Kompakt - E-ink (truly) dumbphone with FOSS OS. (dailyweb.pl)
submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] 31 points 2 months ago (2 children)

While 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.

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

Then I can't message anyone since people use messaging clients like signal and not actual texts

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Which is why dumb phones and feature phones aren't common anymore, and the people choosing them are specifically choosing it to avoid being available via WhatsApp/Signal/Slack/Discord/Teams/whatever else.

My FIL for example has a clamshell feature phone, because he doesn't want to be reached except by phone or SMS. He doesn't want to read email or get messages on his phone, he wants to restrict that to when he's in front of his computer.

So yes, you would not be able to use messaging clients on a dumb phone, that's the idea behind their use today.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I remember sending a Facebook message on my feature phone. I had to type with the num pad and it took minutes to load the page, but it I was successful.

I think people are forgetting that feature phones were connected to the internet back in the day

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

A dumb phone and a feature phone are not the same thing, and a feature phone may connect to the internet.