Thought this might interest some Lemmy folks.
That’s not a dumbphone. It has email, a camera, an e-reader and , looks like, a few other apps.
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 😮
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Since we’re just making up definitions, a dumb phone is now a type of salad.
I need to get more dumb phones in my diet.
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We don’t have different interpretations. You are just misrepresenting the definition. That’s not what a dumb phone is.
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That’s a feature phone.
Man when’s the last time you heard that one?
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I consider anything that even touches data (even 3gp or email) and can play MP3s a feature phone. Even if this thing didnt play MP3’s, the fact it can read ebooks I’d say makes it one.
Is 3gp still a thing?
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No, early mobile internet. Predated the smart phone boom.
Why is this tagged english if it’s a polish article?
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May be client-dependent I guess.
Because Lemmy’s language tools are half-baked and not intuitive, so nobody uses them properly. Not to mention limited app support.
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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)
