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.
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Dumbphone
//ˈdʌm.fəʊn//
Synonyms for "dumbphone" (1 found)
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Noun(1 words)
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5 translations across 4 languages.
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 非智能手機 /非智能手机 noun (cell phone lacking the functionality characteristic of a smartphone)
Finnish
1 entries- peruspuhelin noun (cell phone lacking the functionality characteristic of a smartphone)
Russian
2 entries- бабушкафо́н noun (cell phone lacking the functionality characteristic of a smartphone)
- звони́лка noun (cell phone lacking the functionality characteristic of a smartphone)
Spanish
1 entries- teléfono de teclas noun (cell phone lacking the functionality characteristic of a smartphone)
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But kids don’t really need an internet-enabled phone at the start of high school, [Jean] Twenge argues, because they can get a “dumbphone” (a term Twenge dislikes).
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