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Join Discussion Browse All Discussions Ilia Temelkov Phonearena team original poster HMD Global just released a , and this isn’t the first time feature phones make the news. For a few years, the so-called dumb phones have gathered attention through nostalgia-soaked releases and confusing statistics about young people embracing old-school devices instead of their smartphones.The reason? Almost everyone feels addicted to their smartphones, and dumb phones seem like a good solution to many.In a recent New York Times article, the author used a dumb flip phone for a month and faced various obstacles but generally enjoyed the experience. Vice now has The Best Dumb Phones of 2024” list that could free you from obsessively checking social media, email, or OnlyFans.” The New Yorker declared that the dumbphone boom is real” in a story of a small feature phone store aimed at people who are addicted to their phones.Do you think this is the answer to smartphone addiction? After all, smartphones also help us with vital stuff like banking, navigation and two-factor authentication. So, ditching your smartphone may be impossible or extremely difficult to pull off, but it may also be totally worth it.Would you switch your smartphone for a dumbphone? Are you ready to leave the comfort of modern tech in the name of solving a difficult problem? Is there a combination of devices that could make this process easier for you, like a smartwatch with cellular? Do you think the dumbphone will have a bigger impact on the smartphone world? Or the whole addiction thing is a fad and you don’t believe in it? Join Discussion Browse All Discussions Community poll Do you use a case on your phone? 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When major companies benefit from using our usage records/data to further manipulate us into spending more to finance their further intrusive and greedy practices (like AI without proper regulation and incentive to improve the craft of creators), unfortunately nothing short of disconnecting society will let you escape from recent trends. It stopped being about personal privacy and pleasing customers decades ago. Global recession have created a trend where companies are desperate enough to push technologies without caring much about the repurcussions. Unfortunately, thinking companies like Apple are knights in shining armor...