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/ˈdʌm.fəʊn/ · noun
(informal) A cell phone that does not have any functionality characteristic of a smartphone..
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).
Use dumbphone when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Dumbphone means (informal) A cell phone that does not have any functionality characteristic of a smartphone..
Common synonyms include basic phone.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
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.
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