Hi!
Is fairphone thinking of making a fairer dumbphone? I think it would be to have a fair alternative.
Thanks!
Pablo
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Yes, maybe that would be nice, but the market for dumb phones is far smaller than the one for smartphones. So who should pay the development effort, even if it is smaller than for a smartphone, if only a hand full people were going to buy this?
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That’s fair! But I think it is a growing market and has the potential of becoming an important one in the near future (not as big maybe). But the good thing about the dumbphone it won’t need hardware improvements, so they could release just one and have it there as an alternative of the Fairphone OG
Ha, that’s what you think. The truth is that chipset vendors stop producing their chips and thus new ones need to be designed in, drivers need to be updated for that. So there definitely is maintenance connected to that, not to speak of things that change in the network and that a phone vendor needs to account for (look at the 2G/3G shutdown in Australia and Sweden currently).
And is that really a growing market? Do you have numbers for that?
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You are def more knowledgable that I am. I had and still have no clue about those things.
I think it’s a dying market. You need apps for more and more services. younger people are hesitating to call someone and simple text messages are outdated too.
So I think it’s not worth the effort to design and build a dumbphone.
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Please let me correct: I’m probably more knowledgable in that field than you are 
But luckily it’s not necessary for everyone to know all about everything.
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Given the appearing cost-(in)effectiveness of developing and maintaining a fair-dumb-phone, one can opt for a Fairphone with an app such as Switchly (https://switchly.saltyy.at/), which was suggested by Jose Briones (‘Moving Offline’).
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Apperantly, the claim is that Gen-Z are trending towards less-smart phones, in favour of more smart, deliberate and mindful phone-usage:
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