So tempted to buy a #Nokia flip phone to help me disconnect over Christmas.
I went into a phone store and asked to see the Nokia 2660 Flip and they were SOLD OUT of all their dumb Nokia phones.
Man said that they are amongst their top-selling phones right now, to all ages:
- Old people that don't know how to use other phones
- Millennials who want to disconnect
- Gen-z kids who think its cool to own a 2000s-style phone
So, that was that.
To be honest, I think I would like owning the hardware, but could not deal with the software.
There seem to be a few companies making "feature phones" again for various reasons, but none of them are investing in the software.
KaiOS, running on some Nokia devices, is very very slow for the hardware. Nokia's S30+ operating system is dated and very crap. Other feature phones on the market seem to use Android or another bad proprietary OS.
I think it would be very interesting to have a feature phone device that was running a nice OS; one that could integrate useful messaging apps - so you can still chat to friends using Signal + WhatsApp, that encrypted the data on the device, that could sync your contacts or calendar with other services...
Punkt's MP02 started to do this, but it seems they shifted focus to making a smartphone based on Apostrophy OS.