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Uh, they DO still make dumb phones. And people still buy them.
Yep, 79 year old father in law has a brand new dumb phone with a t-9 keypad, made by TCL. Works perfectly fine.
Yeah but this type of story doesn't generate click bait headline.
not even once
Yeah, for around 20-30 euros you can get a cheap Nokia branded phone as far as I'm aware (105 and 106 series for example).
Yep. They even made a new 3310.
proprietary Chinese processor (Unisoc) AND operating system (Mocor), nothx