Meaning of dumbphone | Babel Free

Definitions

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

informal

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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).”

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