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Commodore is back with a de-Googled feature phone for the anti-doomscrolling crowd (www.androidcentral.com)
submitted 3 months ago by to c/degoogle@lemmy.ml
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[+] 6 points 3 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (24 children)
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  • [–] 4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (13 children)

    How do you think people managed before smart phones?

    Nothing’s that important it can’t wait to get home or to a library, or call someone and get them to check if it is THAT important.

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  • [–] 8 points 3 months ago (4 children)

    So many places now just assume you have a phone. I've been to restaurants that don't have physical menus by default and just have a QR on the table.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    From the article (emphasis mine):

    The Callback is built to do many everyday things, even without a browser. You get QR codes, maps, home security apps, global cellular bands, predictive text messaging, and popular communication app support.

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  • [–] -2 points 3 months ago* (5 children)

    No, if people can receive emails, it defeats the entire purpose. Just don’t install those apps then? Lol. A browser allows access to most social media anyways, so providing one is counter to its purpose.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 months ago* (2 children)

    If I’m expecting an immediate response, an email would be the second to last thing I would do. Emails are different from texts entirely. It’s more akin to sending a letter, it’s even in the name, e”mail”.

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  • [–] 0 points 3 months ago*

    Instant verification for what without already being on a phone? If you’re already on the computer, just use the computers browser and log in to your email? Why are you making this more complicated than reality.

    There’s literally no reason to instantly need your email, and if you do, than these phones aren’t meant for you, you need to be connected.

    Also, what 2fa does email but not text messaging…?

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  • [–] 3 points 3 months ago

    Not impossible to get by, but a lot more difficult in the modern world. I used a dumb phone for a little while a few years ago and I just ended up carrying a smartphone w/o a SIM to tether when needed bc of how much infrastructure assumes you have a smartphone nowadays (in the US at least). It's infuriating - not impossible, but a lot more difficult than it used to be.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 months ago (9 children)

    Some feature phones had browsers

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago (6 children)

    WAP/WML browsers, not web browsers.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago (5 children)

    Just googled to see if I was misremembering because I definitely browsed the regular web on my Nokia N73. It also came out in 2006, and back in the day it was not called a smartphone.

    I would say your statement is factually incorrect.

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  • [–] -1 points 3 months ago (4 children)

    I’ll say I’m correct on a technicality. 2006 is not “long before smartphones” only a year or so. The N73 is a sort of proto-smartphone, even if the term wasn’t in use yet.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago* (3 children)

    I’m really curious what other metric there is for a smart phone than “accessing the web” and/or “downloading apps”. Thats the barebones definition of smart TVs or any other appliance or equipment, why are phones somehow different?

    Why are people trying to define it so specifically? So they can feel better about themselves?

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago (2 children)

    The point where it becomes a general-purpose computing device, I think. Programmability is generally what makes it “smart”, i.e. not having the limitation of predefined “features” which make it a feature phone.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago* (1 child)

    Isn’t a feature phone a “dumb phone”? A phone meant for calling and texting, with preinstalled programs, and that’s it. So yeah, installable apps and a browser would instantly make it a smart phone.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago

    It’s all relative but more or less yes.

    Dumb phone has no software features (e.g. Nokia 5110 or so — unless you count the snake game), feature phone has software features but limited to the ones that come with the phone (rarely installable at all), smart phone has actual software aka “apps”

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