dumbphone

English

Etymology

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

Noun

dumbphone (plural dumbphones)

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

   Hyponym: featurephone

   • 2024 April 27, James Tapper, Aneesa Ahmed, “The ‘boring phone’: stressed-out gen Z ditch smartphones for dumbphones”, in The Observer‎^[1], →ISSN:

     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.

Translations

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

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 非智能手機／非智能手机 (fēizhìnéng shǒujī)

• Finnish: peruspuhelin
• Russian: звони́лка (ru) f (zvonílka), бабушкафо́н m (babuškafón)
• Spanish: teléfono de teclas