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?
sponsored trash like this should be banned, along with the bot users posting it
I don’t trust these numbers, I really don’t trust any article that talks about my generation.
This I wish, but I doubt. I still have my old Garmin GPS and play with the idea of a flip phone but I’ve been spoiled by the smaller things like iMessage not dealing with MMS. It’s an idea I come back to occasionally, but I also think about going back to my Palm with AAA batteries for my PIM needs. Had one in semi-regular-use as recent as 2018!
I heard cassettes are making a comeback too.
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.
Tello has a plan with no data for under $10 a month
Finally sorting by recent comments pays off!
Thank you!!
Those plans look great!
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.
I Can see this trend growing, I’m apart of buying older refurbished phones.
These articles of “Gen Z is doing X” is always wrong lol.
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
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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.
