dumbphone

English

Etymology

dumb +‎ phone, constructed as an antonym to smartphone.

Noun

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, →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

cell phone that does not have any functionality characteristic of a smartphone

Chinese:
Mandarin: 非智能手機／非智能手机 (fēizhìnéng shǒujī)
Finnish: peruspuhelin
Russian: звони́лка (ru) f (zvonílka), бабушкафо́н m (babuškafón)
Spanish: teléfono de teclas

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