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dumbphone

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Etymology

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From dumb +‎ phone, constructed as an antonym to smartphone.

Noun

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dumbphone (plural dumbphones)

  1. (informal) A cell phone that does not have any functionality characteristic of a smartphone.
    Hyponym: featurephone
    • 2024 April 27, James Tapper, Aneesa Ahmed, “The ‘boring phone’: stressed-out gen Z ditch smartphones for dumbphones”, in The Observer[1], →ISSN:
      The Boring Phone is part of a new dumbphone boom, built on the suspicion of gen Z towards the data- and attention-harvesting technologies they have grown up with.

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