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Not smart but clever? The return of "dumbphones" (www.bbc.com)
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[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

You can get a 4G feature phone for less than $50 in the US apparently. Up here they go for closer to $150, but the model I'm thinking of is definitely not a trash product. With a bit if research, you can probably find something decent.

Because 3G still works here, I have been using something from ~2009 when I want to unplug.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Can you link the model you're thinking of? I've looked a few times in the last five years and only seen expensive hairshirts for tech obsessed psychos, and Alcatel trash