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flip phones
Coverage of flip phones in the Nexus archive.
- So dumb it just might work: can these dumbphone evangelists convince you to dump smartphones?
Startup dumb.co is promoting flip phones as part of an anti-tech movement to help young people achieve 'social and spiritual freedom' by using devices loaded with apps like WhatsApp and Google Maps. Participants paid $75 to use these 'dumbphones' for a month through the Month Offline program.
- We traded our smartphones for flip phones for 4 days—and learned that ditching modern technology is harder than it sounds
Two CNBC Make It reporters conducted a digital detox experiment by using flip phones instead of smartphones for four days and reported a positive experience. They found ditching modern technology to be harder than expected. Both reporters expressed willingness to repeat the experiment.