Meaning of dumbphone | Babel Free
ˈdʌm.fəʊnDefinitions
A cell phone that does not have any functionality characteristic of a smartphone.
Equivalents
Examples
“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.”
“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).”
CEFR level
B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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