Glance features like clocks and missed calls existed in the time
of dumbphones... Clamshells had screens on the outside for this purpose.
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.
Not exact matches
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.
«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.
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.
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.