Sentences with word «dumbphone»

Glance features like clocks and missed calls existed in the time of dumbphones... Clamshells had screens on the outside for this purpose.

So M$ seems that it will be using the Lumia brand for smartphones and the Nokia brand for dumbphones and Nokia is will be able to make devices soon enough.

Meanwhile, Nokia's market share for so - called dumbphones is being attacked by Chinese companies that crank out cheap devices in the time it takes Nokia «to polish a PowerPoint presentation.»

The Punkt Mobile's screen is higher resolution than most typical dumbphones, although it's still easy to make out jagged lines.

And now it's like, lol, ok Grandpa, nice dumbphone.

So will 6 year olds just getting their first dumbphone.

I soon found my old SE W810 dumbphone was more useful for surfing the web!

SE's CEO, Bert Nordberg, admits to the WSJ that sticking to candy bar dumbphones while the iPhone made them obsolete was a mistake: «It's safe to say that Sony Ericsson should have taken the iPhone more seriously when it arrived in 2007.»

Do you know how embarrassing it is to pull out a 5 year old dumbphone and have it reset suddenly when you're trying to get a number from a girl that's just too fine?!?! You have to be impressive and it's just not possible to do it with an N75!

This makes sense: Getting around a dumbphone isn't exactly pleasant, and an OS like Android makes it easier to keep your calendar dates or photo album in line via the cloud.

Tech start - ups catering to people who want to disconnect from smartphones are making «dumbphones,» which can command high prices.

The days of the dumbphone have come and gone, but a device like the Blu Tank II still has value as a last resort of communication.

Former mobile phone behemoth Nokia, now owned by HMD, launched a modernized version of its popular 3310, a colorful slab that took pride in its dumbphone trappings, playing up its durability and battery life.

As the Apple iPhone X ups the ante on smartphone features and cost, some consumers are opting for «dumbphones» with limited features and are even willing to pay a premium.

Companies catering to consumers who want to disconnect from their smartphones are making «dumbphones,» which are attractive, simplistic and sometimes even pricey.

«I had a stepdaughter at the time who was so hooked on her telephone that I had to — we had to — argue every day, whether it was at dinner or going to bed, that she had to put her phone away,» said Peter Neby, founder of Punkt, one of the start - ups in the dumbphone market.

But more mobile power users are seeking ways to power down, and dumbphones — which in one case has the financial backing of iPhone manufacturer Foxconn — are being engineered specifically to lure in the smartphone crowd with its scratch - and impact - resistant glass, feather - light weight, ultralong battery life and a minimalistic, easy - to - use interface.

He always keeps a «dumbphone» that has a long battery life in the glove compartment or in his motorbike (think Nokia 3310, basically indestructible).

If there really was an «end - all, be-all» tablet that I just HAD to have and with these current plans... then I would ditch my smartphone for a dumbphone and then move the data plan to the tablet.

They will always have their hardcore fans... but I doubt anyone will be flocking to a BB from say, a dumbphone or another smartphone.

When you go to get a new cell phone now, you'll see many choices of iPhones, Android phones, Blackberry devices, Windows Phone 7, and WebOS, all of which are now more prominent than «dumbphones» or feature phones.

quit being a poor schmuck and either pony up the cash for a premium device, or get some dumbphone and be happy.

Others could carry a dumbphone and tablet, but they would still pay for extra wireless service.

RIM's choice to stick an awkward - feeling T9 keypad onto this device is a bit baffling, but it could appeal to a crowd already used to shooting off rapid - fire text messages on their dumbphones.

There are dumbphones being sold for the same price if not higher.

The OS it was running was a dumbphone OS upgraded with ripped icons from iOS and support for a resistive touchscreen.

But if Amazon is aiming the Kindle Fire HDX at novice mobile device users, many of them probably don't have a smartphone, or even a dumbphone with a decent camera to take pictures with.

Get a dumbphone, if you're super tinfoil, just be phoneless.

But if Amazon is aiming the Kindle Fire HDX at novice mobile device users, many of them probably don't have a smartphone, or even a dumbphone with a decent camera to take pictures with.

Extreme power saver mode does this by turning the M8 into a dumbphone.

This switches the phone to a simple state, essentially making it a dumbphone, changing the user interface to only offer the essentials, similar to HTC's extreme power saver in the new HTC One.

And is the Gear S a good enough smartwatch to make the dumbphone obsolete?

Can the Samsung Gear S replace a dumbphone?

And a lot of those dumbphone people buy and sell houses.