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 #Newtro
– 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

Heineken and HMD’s Boring Phone is a retro-style flip phone with speed dial, Snake, and not much else

The Boring Phone is a modern cellphone that’s designed to do less than most. You can use it to make calls and maybe send text messages if you remember how to do T9 texting. But this 4G flip phone doesn’t support mobile data and doesn’t run apps or games (except for Snake). It’s designed to offer a distraction-free way to […]

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