That’s not a dumbphone. It has email, a camera, an e-reader and , looks like, a few other apps.
this post was submitted on 10 Sep 2024
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Mobile phones in the era before smartphones had cameras, email clients, games, music players, and even web browsers. They just weren't very good at those functions and their core feature was being a phone for voice calls. Texting was barely a feature on some of them (the first camera phone in the United States, the Sanyo SCP-5300, didn't have a two way text messaging client - the user had to go to a website on the phone to send texts, which was inconvenient even on a 1xRTT 3G connection.)
The e-ink phone seems closer to a dumbphone than a smartphone, IMO, largely because it lacks access to an app store.
Source: I sold mobile phones before smartphones and during the early smartphone years (BlackBerry and Palm Treo, for example.)
Edit: calling it a feature phone instead of a dumb phone might be more accurate.
SCP-5300 😮
Why is this tagged english if it's a polish article?
Because Lemmy's language tools are half-baked and not intuitive, so nobody uses them properly. Not to mention limited app support.
Fun fact: While mudita is Pali for "vicarious joy", it's also Spanish for "little mute girl".
If this gets decent standby battery life on 4g I would seriously consider it as my secondary phone
I don't speak polish, but from the photos it looks like a nice concept.
I love the thicc boio!
(Ngl, would have loved a thinn boyo like this one too)