Dumbphone

//ˈdʌm.fəʊn// noun, slang

noun, slang ·Moderate ·College level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A cell phone that does not have any functionality characteristic of a smartphone. informal

    "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."

Synonyms

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basic phone

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"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."

Etymology

From dumb + phone, constructed as an antonym to smartphone.

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