“Bricks, dumb phones or feature phones are seeing a revival ... With decent call quality and an easy text messaging interface, this dual-sim flip phone is actually rather charming to use.

Having surveyed several parents about this, it appears more and more of us are seriously considering giving our children what we like to refer to as a "dumb phone". A phone that goes back to the ...

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Instead, they are buying their children “dumb” phones with limited functionality – which are far from the AI-powered devices sold by the likes of Apple and Google. Virgin Media O2 has seen ...