honest thoughts on dumbphones?

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i miss landscape physical qwerty

nothing wrong with them
only computer science shits that make 30k "need" 600 dollar phones

>>61097215
If they had great cameras and doubled as wifi hotspots id buy one.

Berkele :D

no uber

>>61097539
>using uber
>any fucking year

>>>/v/
>>>/facebook/
>>>/lebbit/

>>61097579
What's wrong with taxis?

>>61097594
unions suck

>>61097594
africans

>>61097215
I tried it and i hate it. I got an asus c201 librebooted it and bought a usb modem. It's a million times better. I use the trrs jack for picking up calls. I can do sms & and phone on through the usb modem, but i really only do it for 2 factor verification bullshit.

Japanese flip phones are cute.

>>61097215
I had a CricKet TXTM8 3G and it was fucking terrible. When it broke, I felt a sense of relief.

>>61097539
Use Lyft you fucking nazi

>>61097594
What isn't wrong with them? They put you behind a bulletproof pane of glass, yell at you, and run the meter up and treat you like a prisoner.
Then, when a competitor appears (ridesharing), they chimp out and destroy people's property rather than trying to compete.

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>>61097803
>tipping

>>61097215
no wifi
no maps
no social network apps
no uber
no proper browsers
need all that shit just to live these days

>>61097941
You have a laptop for that.

>>61097892
that made me so mad when they added tipping.
"yeah, we don't pay our employees enough."
that's all I get from this

>>61097803
>tipping
kek scum

>>61097955
nigga i'm not going to open up a damn laptop in the middle of a street to check i'm going the right way or just to order an uber or a pizza or check and reply quickly to someone
phones are just faster and more portable

great if you frequent ghettos

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>>61097941
This.
Smartphones and services have slaughtered the gadget industry. You can still get discrete media players, GPSes, and whatnot, but now you will pay a massive niche market markup.

As for OP: dumbphones will have always have a place in high security and industrial environments. With security, less is more. Replacing a dumbphone isn't as costly if the last one gets chewed up by a wood chipper.

Are there any good dumbphones that don't have Facebook and shit forced on you and pre-installed? And Chinamen spying on you?

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Why not both?

Dumb for security, smart for everything else.

>>61097803
>Use Lyft you fucking nazi
No, I will use Uber. You do not have to tip either.

why do europoors get so triggered by tips

>>61097215
Who is that semen demon on that dumb phone?

>>61097215
I only use dumbphones. Even the looming end of 2G won't make me get a smartphone. Instead I found a couple of dumbphones by Nokia that can do 3G. And if even if I had no choice but to use a smartphone, because all I want out of a phone is to make and receive phone calls, it would functionally become a dumbphone.

>>61098464
Nip dumbphones are pretty up-to-date, even if they are a tad expensive.

>>61098103
what phone is that anon?

hahah vittun anime homon

>>61098103
>>61098563
Looks like the Nokia E90 Communicator

>>61098702
>>61098563
Older. Nokia 9500

>>61097579
Uber is the best thing ever, do you not got to the bars ever?

>>61098593
mene takas ylille

>>61097579
Uber is great
Fuck off

>>61097500
I thought I was the only one. I've been searching for a dumbphone that can act as a hotspot for ages.

For the most part if someone wants to chat they are using a messaging service that has a computer compatible client I can access anyway. If I'm out and about I can fire off a short sms or just wait until I'm home, but then I'm older so FOMO isn't an issue for me.

>>61097215
are dumb phones aesthetic

>>61099038
If you're on verizon the lg exalt LTE has a hotspot feature. It's a flip phone so it doesn't have qwerty though.

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Dumb phone for calls and messages from work. Smartphone for evrything else.
Thinking of buying pic related. Not a dumbphone though.

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After all these years, I STILL think holding a pancake like a modern smartphone to your year looks absolutely idiotic.
The pre-smartphone candybar style ones or even flip phones looked like you're actually having a phone call.

But the absolute worst is having your smartphone in your bag and shouting into the open like a complete retard because you have headphones on and the mic somewhere between your boobs.
Years back people talking to themselves were regarded as mentally handicapped but I guess people who do this free shouting shit still fit into that category.

What's a decent dumb/flip phone that's selling today?

>>61099479
Japanese flip phones are still going strong.

>>61097500
this, so much. A dumbphone with a good camera, a basic email client (all of them have it), and hotspot.

>>61099287
where? tell me more anon. Are they GSM or just CDMA?

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>>61098815
Kill yourselves, normalfags.

>>61099687
how do i even use a nip flip in america?

>>61100124
keitai are fine but you won’t get internet

>>61098214
why do americans feel the need to tip?
a product/service has a price, it's fixed, overpaying is wrong

>>61097215
Waste of time and money.

>>61099434
>holding a phone up to your ear
literally why?
either use loudspeakers at home or headphones+mic while out
>normal
what's normal and what isn't changes with progress, niggers being free used to be not normal, women wearing jeans used to be not normal, LGBT people used to be considered not normal, but things change, and owning a flip phone in 2017 is most definitely not normal

>>61098214
Fucking garbage collectors etc. have similar wages and much shittier work conditions.
Yet they take it like a man instead of whining for handouts.
Either get a better job or start begging on the streets, you little bitch.

My sister is a student and used to work as a waiter yet she didn't complain or act like a bitch when people didn't tip her.

Grow up or kill yourself.

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>>61097215
i've never owned a smartphone
probably never will
dumbphones 4 lyfe

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>>61098309
nice tiddies + bum bum purple haired cyborgg :DDD

>>61100878
>bitches not complaining

Of course she did anon every god damn day to, just because you didn't hear it doesn't mean she didn't do it. Specially women. You need to get out there and find out what this world is like anon.

>>61097215
suomi mainittu torilla tavataan

Is that an S7 Active?

>>61097215
moi moi minä olen ruotsalainen

>>61102451
mies yli laidan

>>61097215
pretty good they are trying to kill thm off by switching networks now though

>>61097225
>landscape physical qwerty

This. I want an Android phone with that. Insta-buy. SSH will be sooooo sweet.

>>61102793
not android but the n900 is comfy (but slow) and neo900 will be even better

https://neo900.org/

>>61101634
Good taste :DDDD

>>61102886
Looks good!

>>61098103
HTC ONE M8 MASTER RACE

>>61100625
but LGBT people aren't normal, anon.

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To answer OP, I don't dislike dumbphones at all. In fact I ongoing project to discard smartphone and use dumbphone. However, phones seeing in the picture, you could argue that these are not a dumbphone which I would agree because these have all sort of nonsense. I do have one flipphone which I am really fond of because it's nice to hold in hand.
Nevertheless, these phones can be used as a regular smartphone but the benefit of dumbphone form factor. Too bad the software on Symbia is shit and finding something that we take as granted can be pain in the ass to find.

>>61103012
>I ongoing project to discard smartphone and use dumbphone
how is this an ongoing project

>>61103025
Well, I'm a special kind of retard so I call everything a project (and projects are doomed to be unfinished).

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>>61102906
:DDDDD

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>>61097215
How dumb are we talking?
Pic related

Otherwise there's some pretty awesome shit on aliexpress.

>>61097215
Galaxy active with a dumb phone huge dick neckbeared combination

>>61097225
this

landscape physical qwerty was the last time i was able to get actual work done on a phone
(needs function keeps and backlighting)

you can even stuff a extra battery in there to make up for the room

the ability to type while not looking and have tactile feedback to increase typing and also able to use when its damp out

tfw no portable terminal for ssh with all the function keys

>>61104071
>get actual work done on a phone
why do you do this to yourself?

>>61097594
>>61097631
Annoying over weight white people.

If it has colours and can install additional applications, it's not a dumbphone.

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>>61100878
this
The 'mandatory handouts' mentality is really driving me up the wall.

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>>61097215
I hate what they've done to society along with social media. And i want to see them replaced or recreate the barrier that seperates normies.

The problem is no matter how smart you are, and how complicated your setup is. If the general things youre going to accomplish can be done an easier way by a normie faggot on a phone, then there isn't any point to it. The internet used to be smart, now its retard proof. How do we re-segregate the normies?

>>61097803
Use whatever's cheaper you dumbshit. There's a reason Jews are the 1% they would sell their own mothers for a raise in salary

>>61103910
examples?

>>61106244
Easier way is just to segregate them based on browser ID. This will work on most people but you know some faggot will make an app that spoofs a desktop browser ID. Even then, most people won't have access to this.

Another measure may be to have it so the site only shows the real content if JS is disabled. If JS is enabled it shows some other garbage (or a JS version of the site that is for idiots).

Problem with segregation is that you're relying on data collected from the client, all of which can be spoofed, and eventually, some app will be written to make spoofing it retard-proof. It's worth thinking of a more fundamental way to block smartphones.

>>61106324
The 'use whatever's cheaper' rule would be nice if Uber weren't such a fucking degenerate company.

>>61097215
Phone nowadays is mainly an internet browsing devices, and dumbphones suck at it.

>>61098789
>ylille
:D

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I miss my old W705... It was dead simple, but used proprietary shit up the wazoo. needs an adapter for 3.5mm headphones. Uses sonys M2 cards for memory, etc..

I might end up buying one off ebay some day, just to relive it, but they all seem too pricy for what it is. If i could snag one for $20 id be ecstatic.(i already have all the accessories from before. I ended up breaking mine trying to swap it into a different shell)

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>>61097996
My faggot detector's readings are off the charts!

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>>61097225

I have a new toy arriving tomorrow.

>>61097215
I got a 2 year old flagship phone for $90. You could probably get a smart phone for way cheaper. If you're concerned about security, just disable internet and/or disable internet.

Owning a dumb phone today is like owning a crt monitor: Only done by autists.

>>61098464
What do you do in your day to day life and what do you do for a living?
Simply curious

>>61097594
poojets

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>>61097215
Been using pic related for over two months. Feels great not to be connected to the swarming mass of subhuman scum.

You don't want a smart phone. You have no idea what it does to your mind.

>>61097996
You have given up the basic human skill of navigation. You can re-learn this vital skill, and thus expand your sensory perception. This will improve your social interaction. You will look up from your screen to the world around you and interact with reality in a marvellous new way.

If someone uses a dumb phone. I assume it's either for work, drugs, or he's poor and/or mentally unstable.

>>61106952
Pic related. Johns phone
Also
Search m5 in aliexpress they're about $12 a pop

If you use a dumbphone past 2015 you are either a hipster, neo-luddite, or both. The battery meme is over. You can't buy plans with no data from any major carrier without going to an MVNO so the entire industry has left you behind and you're probably paying out the ass for service you can't even use.

Even if you didn't have data you could easily benefit from apps like managing calendars and todos and they just sync up when you're in wi-fi range. You still have a better and bigger screen, more battery life, better call quality, better contact management, better documents and file management etc.

most dumbphone shits keep repeating memes about "freedom", hilariously enough $50 androids support both the ability to dual boot your precious "real" linux OS, and you can buy fully free phones that support replicant. Just like always the people spouting about "freedom" usually don't know dick about it in the first place. Hilarious to see these loads of turd fat sperg out for weeks in IRC about how "smartphones are tracking devices" yet somehow think that their locked down 15 year old proprietary java phone OS is superior, without knowing anything about it. That's because dumbphones aren't technology, they're just the manifestation of the same grandma-tier FUD about not using PCs in the 80s except for 25 year olds of today thinking they're being "tracked" and they want to permanently mentally stay in a time when they still had hope.

Even most employers nowadays specifically list requiring an android or iphone because they are sick and tired of dealing with these special snowflake neo-luddites trying to tell everyone else to be a shitty loser just like them. Please try to get attention another way, like killing yourself.

>using dumb phone
>not using pager

>>61110647
Sounds like you just lack discipline.

Since the smartphone resolution why there was never any attempt to make a dumbphone running open source software? Hardware for these costs pennies doesn't it?

>>61099038

Evolveo Strongphones have Wi-Fi hotspot ability while being built to be durable and have long battery life. The X3 even acts as a powerbank.

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Used to own this sexy fucker when i was a teenager. For me personally still one of the most stylish phone designs ever made.

The display was a cool idea but the went overboard with simplifying it. Sometimes it was just impossible to read. Also for some reason it did not have the amazing battery life they promised.

Its a shame that they never made a successor with little improvements.

>>61099434
you totally can't do this with a flip phone, right? I see boomers holding them upside down like this all the time. but hey if we just use this old shit ironically then we can forget about what happened just 8 years ago

>>61110647
I know exactly what it does to my mind, it frees it up because I can stay connected anywhere to do business. I know what you are going for, the "muh gaemz!!!!!!" bullshit.

100% of anti-smartphone "arguments" are just about the current set of retards that happen to use them wrong trying to pretend that there weren't an equal amount of retards using dumbphones and flipphones. It's amazing how you think you go anywhere when you always post this, rednecks go offroading with trucks yet we still have a transportation industry, you can also go fishing with dynamite that doesn't mean all forms of explosives aren't banned in the construction industry. Yet some kid plays a game on a smartphone now you say it's all worthless.

Other people being retarded with the technology isn't a valid excuse except if you are a hipster which is also founded on bullshit in the first place.

>>61111912
This post is just so indicative of this weird quantum bullshit state that all dumbphone shits are in. "oh it was so great except it sucked and I want it back"

>sexy fucker
>impossible to read
>didn't have battery life
>successor

successor to what? to a failed device?

>little improvements
how about BIG improvements

>>61111954
not him but probably he meant successor to the idea of using e-ink display for a phone without making it painful to use.

Those big digital letters you see on the picture is what the whole fucking UI of this phone used. Imagine reading a text message on this piece of shit.

>>61111954
Oh, you got me wrong there. I use an LG G now and i love it.

Im just saying i loved the design. In these early times cellphones were still kinda shit and they knew it. But this approach took another path and actually tryed to turn the limitations of early phone design into a sleek and much nicer experience. Which, in my opinion, was and is a significant design achievement.

>>61111989
>e-ink display for a phone
Yotaphone

>>61112177
First of all, that's a smartphone. Second of all, yotaphone e-ink display is the secondary display

>>61111828

> You can't buy plans with no data

I don't know about your meme country. In Australia there's a network cost and then a provider (retailer) cost for phone service. The cheapest way to use a phone is to restrict yourself to network cost by using a barebones provider.

Actually you're correct that no plans come with no data, but that's only because the 4G network is a wireless internet service that all phones work on. It just doesnt use TCP/IP to carry voice and text.

>>61108930
Shit, that thing would be awesome for invading russian airspace. I bet its radar signature is smaller than a postage stamp!

>>61097215
I keep one around for when my n5 finally die

>>61112217
Can use it as your primary if you want.

>>61098103
Nice phone M8

>>61111828
give me a clamshell smartphone or im never changing

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>>61097225
>tfw droid 4 was the last decent horizontal slider
>this was over 5 years ago

>>61112552
what's the latest android that will run on the droid 4? is there an active cyanogenmod developing community?

>>61103334
Sauce please

>>61112631
only nightlies for LineageOS
may as well get a GS4 with a slider case

>>61112467
http://www.t3.com/news/flip-phones-are-back-meet-the-samsung-galaxy-folder-2

>>61112467
samsung has made a few
the henessey and the folder 1 and 2 come to mind

>>61112467
http://www.gsmarena.com/compare.php3?idPhone1=8006&idPhone2=7451&idPhone3=7453

the gionee is the only non piece of shit out of those

>>61112467
>>61112698
>>61112737
>>61112759
Yeah not gonna mean fuck all to any dumbphone dipshit. Forever stuck in 2005, dumbphone shits are tech creationists in which they keep pretending they are freedom fighters yet don't know dick about the android market. Again they basically don't know what android is. Guarantee you every penny I will ever make that he did not look at any of those links.

I could say the following:
The android market exploded in 2012 with 1001 chinese manufacturers doing whatever they wanted and due to the freedom of android and GSM, you can pick up a $60 chink phone that's 80% as good as a $800 flagship phone from any billion dollar company and it will be in any crazy format you want, clamshell, wristwatch (no not a smartwatch it is a gsm watch phone), or anything else which you won't see for sale in the USA. So we are actually existing in the best time where any chinese company with a spare $500,000 lying around can go just make some weird device which you can buy for nothing and it will work in the USA.

But it doesn't matter because this has NOTHING to do with technology, they are just stuck in 2005 and scared as fucking shit. Just like their grandma that they keep making fun of for not accepting a PC after 30 years of using one. What they are doing here is trying to out-hipster your requirements. Like saying "Oh I need a clamshell phone under $10 that has a slide out hologram keyboard" or something else which they know won't exist, this is all just a game to get you to try to get them to switch. Dumbphone faggots are SOOOOOOO fucking full of shit. This is NOT technology.

>>61097309
30k? poors

>>61113193
>Forever stuck in 2005, dumbphone shits are tech creationists in which they keep pretending they are freedom fighters yet don't know dick about the android market. Again they basically don't know what android is. Guarantee you every penny I will ever make that he did not look at any of those links.
or old people
but to be fair, not really who those smart+flip phones are aimed at

>>61103334
I don't recognize this from any gits mangas

Smartphones are literally destroying society and breeding people into monsters with no empathy. It's why people are so divided and hostile to each other. they have no empathy because every interaction is online or over text, with as little verbal face to face communication as possible.

basically, smartphones have turned people almost indistinguishable from people with Aspergers.

I gave up on smartphones after my Android died a few years ago. I had already begun to realize that i was addicted to it. When I'd get off the bus, my neck would hurt. I was spending all my time on the smartphone.

I realized i didn't need it. What the fuck do i do that requires a smartphone? I barely make phone calls, and these days, I barely text. So i got a flipphone that fulfills all of my needs. unlimited talk and text. I can even google if it suits my fancy, but I think I'm gonna change that.

>>61113615
This has nothing to do with android or smartphones, it has to do with the social sites in question. Did you know it is possible to use an android without using facebook, twitter etc? I've done it for 6 full years which is also the amount of time I've been on android.

>What the fuck do I do that requires a smartphone?
That's exactly right, YOU probably don't need one, if you aren't making money. Smartphones are perfect for business. The internet for business is not about facebook but rather web apps running online which can go through your phone's browser. You don't even have to deal with shitty custom apps made for the phone which never work after the company updates their core software every week.

Just wi-fi tethering is such a game changer, you don't have to pay out the ass for separate service just through a wwan in your laptop or carry around some crap USB dongle with shitty ISP software. Again perfect combo for business.

What you do with your smartphone is up to you. Just because a bunch of normies play games and use shitty websites that you wouldn't use or play in the first place, is not an argument.

>>61113705
>you aren't making money. Smartphones are perfect for business
I dont deny that, but at the same time, not every business NEEDS a smartphone. And the vast majority of the public dont actually need it either.

I remember when cell phones were an adult thing. now every 15 year old has a smartphone

>>61113615
how do you people even exist
why are you using 4chan and not just holding conversations with people close to uoi

>>61113733
>now every 15 year old has a smartphone
There it is right there, this is all hipster anti-trend bullshit.

I remember when laptops were an adult thing, now every 15 year old has a laptop. Better go throw out all my laptops and get an 80s suitcase antique because all this is about is being different from everyone else

>>61108930
where'd you buy it from? i've been looking around for one but can't find any

>>61113895
The reason why I keep coming back is because it's so fun to laugh at clueless hipster anti-logic. You only do this "I have to be different" shit when you can't make any money.

I've been through a few dozen dumbphone threads and they go like this
>Dumbphones are SO much better than smartphones
>Why?
>Well if you go through as much calling and texting as I do...
>Who do you call and text
>(thread ends)

It's like watching an anime con full of boiling contrarian train wrecks all trying to out-contrarian one another. By the way, there are certain amish groups outside cities that use smartphones and facebook as long as it's to make money. So even real actual luddites are less fucking stupid.

>>61097215
>Still using a cellphone
>2017

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>>61113615
>MUH TECHNOLOGY IS RUINING SOCIETY!11
*cough*

>>61097215
>obsolete
>and for good reasons

I want a Sony Ericsson flagship

>>61114040
Wow it's people actually reading articles and not just yelling at each other in the comments section

>>61113615
Is... is this a copypasta?
This feels like a copypasta.
If it isnt, it should be.

>>61114040
Like I said, heard this when I was a kid, heard from old people scared to death of accepting technology so they just make shit up.

Same exact shit for this now. If you unironically believe this about phones, you are absolutely, positively just as bad as your grandparents who refuse to learn where the start button on windows is after 30 years of fighting it.

>>61098778
fuck you

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>>61099287

I lust over this phone for one simple reason and that is pic related

It is a piece of shit by modern standards though. At least Sharp made some good smartphones with that green/blue color

those sharp flipphones are so good.

>>61098103
>paying a second voice plan so the NSA doesnt listen to you ask mom to pick you up