u/merchantconvoy

No official update on the Light Phone site, but priced at $299. No touchscreen, selfie camera, or NFC. Plastic.

EDIT: on Light site now https://www.thelightphone.com/lightflip

I think it would be interesting to have a crowdsourced dataset of which apps people non-negotiably need even on a digital detox phone.

This may help manufacturers develop and/or refine their offerings.

Please share.

If this is your first time encountering these phone categories, it can be difficult to differentiate between smartphones, midwit phones, and dumbphones a.k.a. feature phones.

But not to worry. The following flowchart should make things simpler.

1. If the phone has a slab form factor, like the smartphones of the past two decades, follow here.
1a. If the phone has no or almost no phone usage addiction reduction features, it's a smartphone.
1b. If the phone has strong phone usage addiction reduction features in hardware and/or software, it's a midwit phone.

2. If the phone has a traditional dumbphone a.k.a. feature phone form factor, such as flip, candy bar, BlackBerry style, etc., follow here.
2a. If the phone allows additional apps to be installed beyond what comes preinstalled on the phone, it's a midwit phone.
2aα. It may also have phone usage addiction reduction features in hardware and/or software. The best midwit phones do. But this is not a requirement at this point in the flowchart.
2b. If the phone doesn't allow additional apps to be installed beyond what comes preinstalled on the phone, it's a dumbphone a.k.a. feature phone.

Let's do a few examples.

• Any standard iPhone or Android that you buy is a smartphone by way of flow 1a. Recent versions of smartphone OSes come with some basic phone usage addiction reduction features, but they don't stop anyone with serious addiction. These features may as well not exist.
• If you put strong phone usage addiction reduction software on a smartphone, it becomes a midwit phone by way of flow 1b. This may be enough to keep a lot of users in check. But some users may need more.
• The CAT S22 Flip is a midwit phone by way of flow 2a.
• dumb.co's dumbphone 2 is a midwit phone by way of flow 2a.
• The Commodore Callback 8020 is a midwit phone by way of flow 2aα.
• The Dumber Mini is a midwit phone by way of flow 2aα.
• Both revisions of the Nokia 3310 (the 2000 original and the 2017 re-release) are dumbphones by way of flow 2b.

Of course there are lots of other phones that could be categorized. These are just some commonly discussed models.

Hope this helps.

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Midwit phones are a colloquial name for the newly-emerging category of phones between dumbphones and smartphones.

This category has also been called by various other names, including hybrid phones, smart feature phones, transition devices, etc.

Such phones tend to be either dumbphones with a lot of preinstalled apps targeted at modern needs, or smartphones with a certain amount of usage friction built into their design, such as a dumbphone form factor, a small screen, lack of screen touch sensitivity, web and/or social media blocks, etc.

If you need something less addictive than a typical smartphone, but something with WhatsApp and/or Telegram and/or Signal and/or Spotify and/or your banking applications and/or your payment applications, what you need is a midwit phone.

This subreddit was created because more and more people looking for exactly this kind of phone were having trouble finding exactly the right subreddit to go to. We aim to be that destination.

This is a manual repost of this post because this subreddit does not allow for cross-posting.

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Midwit phones are a colloquial name for the newly-emerging category of phones between dumbphones and smartphones.

This category has also been called by various other names, including hybrid phones, smart feature phones, transition devices, etc.

Such phones tend to be either dumbphones with a lot of preinstalled apps targeted at modern needs, or smartphones with a certain amount of usage friction built into their design, such as a dumbphone form factor, a small screen, lack of screen touch sensitivity, web and/or social media blocks, etc.

If you need something less addictive than a typical smartphone, but something with WhatsApp and/or Telegram and/or Signal and/or Spotify and/or your banking applications and/or your payment applications, what you need is a midwit phone.

This subreddit was created because more and more people looking for exactly this kind of phone were having trouble finding exactly the right subreddit to go to. We aim to be that destination.

Midwit phones are a colloquial name for the newly-emerging category of phones between dumbphones and smartphones.

This category has also been called by various other names, including hybrid phones, smart feature phones, transition devices, etc.

Such phones tend to be smartphones with a certain amount of usage friction built into their design, such as a form factor traditionally associated with dumbphones, a small screen, grayscale mode or a physically grayscale screen, lack of screen touch sensitivity, web and/or social media blocks, etc.

If you need something less addictive than a typical smartphone, but with group SMS and/or WhatsApp and/or Telegram and/or Signal and/or streaming music and/or podcast and/or local music and/or maps and/or banking and/or electronic payment and/or QR code functionality, and possibly more, what you need is a midwit phone.

This subreddit was created because more and more people looking for exactly this kind of phone were having trouble finding exactly the right subreddit to go to. We aim to be that destination.

The legendary Bryan Lunduke announces v0.1 of The Lunduke Computer Operating System, based on Devuan, XLibre & Brave Origin.

Very clean, very light, no slop. Ideal for even the leanest hardware.

• https://x.com/LundukeJournal/status/2076044727917400104
• https://nitter.net/LundukeJournal/status/2076044727917400104

It's obviously hardware manufactured by DOOV, but I can't figure out if it's a custom model that they're making specifically for the DumberOS/Dumber Mini people, or if it's a general availability model that you can also buy from other suppliers.

Anyone know? Thanks.

There are dumbphones, also called feature phones. There are also smartphones. So far, so good.

But there is also an emerging category of phones that doesn't have a name yet. This category is halfway between a dumbphone and a smartphone. A phone from this category can run either a limited set of apps or all apps, but even in the latter case, it implements certain technological and/or design features intended to discourage excessive app use.

People have been having trouble referring to such phones. I propose calling them wisephones. They are smart, to an extent, but they have realized that they can be too smart for their own good, and have taken a step back.

Discuss.

I was using WristLog for a while, but it's going from free to paid, so I'm on the lookout for free alternatives. I'm on Android. Thanks.

I'm looking for storage for 10 to 20 watches, something with a lid and a protective base for each watch, but preferably on the affordable end. Thanks.

Some years ago, I saw an Armitron watch with the following features:

• Dial looked mostly like the Casio MQ24-7B2's dial.
• Fabric strap rather than resin.
• Push-button LED or EL light rather than a chemical lume or no lume.
• May or may not have had date and/or day windows.

If anyone can help me track down this model, or anything similar from any manufacturer at all, I would appreciate it.

As cheap and iconic as the F-91W is, it has some serious downsides:

• Terrible backlight
• Insufficient water resistance
• Insufficient feature set for a modern digital watch
• Screen/digits too small for some users

Given these downsides, which other Casio model do you think is the best pretender to the F-91W's throne, the one Casio that you could recommend to almost anyone as a cheap enough, good enough watch that will blend with almost any style?

I have my own opinion on this, but I won't post until later so as not to influence the thread.

In threads like these, people tend to post sites without stating ownership, even if they themselves made and run the site.

But I think that's a loss of opportunity. If a Redditor made a site, we want to know. We'd rather deal with someone from our community than with some stranger. Also, exchanging opinions in both directions is going to be easier this way.

So this thread is your chance to promote your free media streaming site. Tell us what makes it stands out. And we'll tell you what we like about it and what we don't.