Feature phones are having a quiet resurgence in 2025. As smartphone fatigue grows, more users are turning to minimal devices that focus on core functions like calling, texting, and music playback.

Over the past few years we’ve seen a number of efforts to bring physical keyboards back to smartphones. But we’ve also seen a growing number of efforts to make smartphones… less smart, as a way to ...

The HMD Touch 4G is an unusual looking phone that features a 3.2 inch, 320 x 240 pixel IPS LCD touchscreen and relatively thick borders along the top (where you’ll find a speaker and camera) and ...

There is no doubt that smartphones have ensnared us in diverse ills, from idle doomscrolling to disrupting our sleep patterns and exposing us to a wide range of bad information. These concerns have ...

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