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Mobile

Charge This $20 Nokia Phone Once Every 35 Days

First of all, don’t get too excited because this phone will almost certainly never be available where you live. Regardless, the new Nokia 105 lasts freaking 35 days on a single charge, and it costs under $US20.

27 August 2012

Mobile

Custom-Printed OwnFone Makes You Choose Your Friends Wisely

While most companies are pushing phones to have bigger screens and more processing power, OwnFone is taking things in the other direction with these extremely simple, custom-printed dumbphones. With an OwnFone, you can take calls and call people you know. That’s it.

25 July 2012

Mobile

How Many Of Your Friends Still Use Dumbphones?

I was in the airport last week surrounded by grumpy delayed travellers, one of whom was brandishing his feature phone with pride. “I just want my phone to be a phone,” he tried to tell a fellow grumpster. I shook my head in dispair.

3 May 2011

Mobile

Telstra Has A New Phone For Seniors

It seems that mobile phones for seniors are coming back in style, with Telstra announcing the EasyCall 2, a big-buttoned dumbphone with a built-in torch and FM radio.

21 April 2011

Mobile

Telstra Has A New Rugged Phone For Tough Guys

If you think a pansy smartphone is useless for you because you’re likely to shatter the prissy glass under the sheer strength of your fingers curling around its wimpy body, you may be interested in Telstra’s new ruggedised handset, which features an IP54 rating for water and dust protection and a 2.4-inch GorillaGlass screen.

18 April 2011

Mobile

Doro Has A Mobile Phone For Your Nanna

While the geeks here at Gizmodo live and breathe smartphones, sometimes it’s important to step back and remember that old people need mobile phones too. So let’s take a look at the Doro PhoneEasy 410s, a clamshell phone specifically designed to meet the needs of your nanna.

15 March 2011

Mobile

Yves Behar Handset For Those Who Hate Smartphones

Yves Behar thinks there some merit to a phone that does one simple thing well: make calls. So he tossed out the touchscreens and complex operating systems, teaming up with Aesir to produce a well-constructed, tactile dumbphone, the +YvesBehar phone.

20 October 2010

Mobile

The Most Popular Phone In The World

Nokia has problems. Smartphone problems. Software problems. American problems. But to fully understand what’s wrong, we’ve got to understand what’s been right, or to put in another way, what’s distracted Nokia. Meet the most popular phone in the world.

17 September 2010

Would You Be Happy With A Phone That Just Calls And Texts?

Once upon a time, mobile phones were used for making phone calls. Then text messaging became a thing. Cameras, maps and multimedia playback followed and eventually we got apps. But would you be satisfied going back to the bread and butter?

3 July 2010

Mobile

Kin Memorial Site Helps You Work Through The Pain

Kin, we hardly knew ye. If you’re overwhelmed with grief over the demise of Microsoft’s pair of smart-dumbphones, or maybe – just possibly – looking for one last chance to make fun of them. The elegies are already rolling in:

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