Gen Z and millennials have become the unlikely heroes to revive the slow-fading phone market in the US, according to Counterpoint Research.
  • GreenMario@lemm.eeEnglish
    6·
    3 years ago

    Doubt.

    Haven’t seen a flip phone in use in ages and I work among the public. Even the barely functional elderly on smartphones.

    Who paid for this article? What’s their angle?

  • kepix@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    1 year ago

    sponsored trash like this should be banned, along with the bot users posting it

  • skymtf@pricefield.orgEnglish
    2·
    3 years ago

    I don’t trust these numbers, I really don’t trust any article that talks about my generation.

  • MNByChoice@midwest.socialEnglish
    1·
    2 years ago

    Has anyone found cell only and cheap service (<$20/mo)? (USA) If I have a feature phone, I don’t want data. I looked for years and failed.

    Edit: I had failed to notice I am in a thread over a year old.

  • rikonium@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
    1·
    3 years ago

    This I wish, but I doubt. I still have my old Garmin GPS and play with the idea of a flip phone but I’ve been spoiled by the smaller things like iMessage not dealing with MMS. It’s an idea I come back to occasionally, but I also think about going back to my Palm with AAA batteries for my PIM needs. Had one in semi-regular-use as recent as 2018!

  • mr_tyler_durden@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    3 years ago

    As if we needed another sign that ZDnet was trash…

    I fucking hate these obviously bullshit articles. “Gen Z is using feature phones”, “Gen Z are using paper maps”, “Gen Z is doing XYZ”.

    No, they aren’t. At best some sad excuse for a journalist found a handful of tweets and wrote a whole article on it like it’s a “trend”.

    Look, I know “journalists” are being squeezed to produce at an unreasonable rate but if you write drivel like this then you have no business calling yourself a journalist, hell I don’t even think you can call yourself a “writer” or “contributor” either. It barely passes as writing and you are contributing nothing to society.

  • Macaroni_ninja@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    3 years ago

    For the past 10 years I never bought a phone for more than 300 euros.

    I usually get a new phone every 3 years to have the latest tech and donate or recycle the old one.

    For the last year I had an iPhone 13 pro (usually goes around 1100 euro) as a work phone and my personal Redmi Note 11 Pro I bought for 270 euros and not once I told myself: Man, this iphone is at least 3 times better than my Xiaomi. It’s clearly a premium product but a middle category budget phone can match most features and even more. I still have a headphone jack, bigger 120 Hz screen, IR blaster and an amazing fingerprint sensor.