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People want 'dumbphones'. Will companies make them? (www.bbc.com)
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[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago

While certainly not the majority, feature phones (known as garakei) enjoy a cult following in Japan.

Bear in mind that feature phones in Japan were a literal decade ahead of smartphones in terms of features. They already had features such as GPS, email, internet browsers latest 90s and early 2000s.

The Mysteries of Japan-Only Phones โ€” sabukaru - https://sabukaru.online/articles/the-mysterious-early-world-of-japans-cellphone-culture