dumbphone
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
dumb + phone, constructed as an antonym to smartphone.
Noun[edit]
dumbphone (plural dumbphones)
- (informal) A cell phone that does not have any functionality characteristic of a smartphone.
- Hyponym: featurephone
- 2024 April 27, James Tapper, Aneesa Ahmed, “The ‘boring phone’: stressed-out gen Z ditch smartphones for dumbphones”, in The Observer[1], →ISSN:
- The Boring Phone is part of a new dumbphone boom, built on the suspicion of gen Z towards the data- and attention-harvesting technologies they have grown up with.
Translations[edit]
cell phone that does not have any functionality characteristic of a smartphone
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