• rekabis@lemmy.ca
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    1 day ago

    flip phone

    Almost all such phones are actually smart phones in a flip phone Edgar Suit. Especially if it has maps or YouTube or any kind of an App Store. I see a crapton of flip phones that run Android, which has all sorts of Google spyware piggybacking along.

    I think there may be only two or three dumb flip phones or feature flip phones left on the market, and IIRC two are locked to specific networks.

    If you want a bona-fide dumb phone, you might be limited to something like the rotary un-smartphone.

    • spookex@lemmy.world
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      23 hours ago

      I had a Sharp SH-03L for a while, it’s a business version of one of their flip phones that didn’t even have a camera.

      The OS was actually android 8.0 but really stripped down to basically only do the whatever apps a flip phone has.

      I was able to sideload apks through ADB, but ironically, I actually wanted the google stuff to work since a lot of the apps required it to log in and other things.

      The thing was pretty cheap though, paid like $15 for it