cdarwin,
@cdarwin@c.im avatar

It’s almost enough to make you stop doomscrolling:
dull devices are now cool.

The Boring Phone is a new, featureless flip phone that is feeding the growing appetites of younger people who want to ditch their smartphones in favour of a dumbphone.

The latest model is a collaboration between Heineken beer and the fashion retailer Bodega,
and caused a storm when it was unveiled this month at Milan design week,
the place where trends are anointed by the world’s designers.

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.
That suspicion has fuelled reinventions of retro cultural artefacts
– a trend known as
– and seen in the revival of vinyl records, cassettes,fanzines, 8-bit video games and old-fashioned mobile phones.
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2024/apr/27/the-boring-phone-stressed-out-gen-z-ditch-smartphones-for-dumbphones?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

freakazoid,
@freakazoid@retro.social avatar

@cdarwin @alcinnz It doesn't take that many people refusing to carry smartphones before companies won't be able to assume everyone has one.

alcinnz,
@alcinnz@floss.social avatar

@cdarwin I guarantee you: I'd be aboard this "boring phone" train if I knew where to buy one, & could be guaranteed that it works well with my carrier!

gdinwiddie,
@gdinwiddie@mastodon.social avatar

@cdarwin
Hooray for the suspicious kids! They give me hope for the future.

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