The Mudita Pure is a simple phone with a 2.84 inch E Ink display, a number pad, and an emphasis on the “phone” part of smartphone, although it also supports a handful of apps including a calendar, calculator, notes, alarm clock, music player, and voice recorder. Under development for the past few years, the phone […]
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Punkt MP02 voice phone now supports encrypted Signal calls and text messages
The Punkt MP02 is a $349 cellphone with an emphasis on simplicity. It has a 2 inch black and white display, a numeric keypad, and an emphasis on phone calls and text messages. First released in 2018, the phone has some modern features that set it apart from old-school dumb phones, including support for 4G […]
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4G rotary cellphone coming this fall (or build your own DIY 3G model now)
Earlier this year Justine Haupt showed off a Rotary Cellphone designed for making phone calls and not much else. With a retro-style 10-digit dialer, a few speed-dial buttons, LED lights, and a small ePaper display for showing missed calls or contact info, the phone is a response to the do-everything approach of modern smartphones. Haupt […]
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This DIY Rotary Cellphone is a real thing that makes phone calls (but not much more)
Not every new cellphone has a 6+ inch display, an amazing camera or… a touchscreen display. Justine Haupt’s Rotary Cellphone puts some decidedly old-school tech into a modern mobile device that’s pocket-sized, capable of making phone calls, and which gets all-day battery life. Instead of a touchscreen though, it has a 10-digit dialer plus a […]
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MAKERPhone is a $99 DIY, hacker-friendly phone (crowdfunding)
Some of the best smartphones on the market today have price tags in the $1,000 range. The MAKERphone costs just one tenth as much… but that’s only part of the selling point for this crowdfunded cellphone. It’s a DIY phone that comes as a kit that you assemble. It’s programmable, allowing you to code your […]
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Kyocera KY-O1L is a phone with a 2.8 inch ePaper display (for Japan)
A handful of phone makers have released dual-screen devices with color screens on one side and monochrome E Ink displays on the other. Kyocera’s latest phone goes all in on the black and white screen. The KY-O1L is a tiny phone with a 2.8 inch, 480 x 600 pixel electronic paper display. The whole phone measures […]
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Punkt MP02 is a $349 phone that doesn’t do much
There are a lot of things you can do with a modern smartphone. It’s a portable media player, a web browsing tool, a social media madness machine, a text messaging utility, and I suppose you could use it to make phone calls from time to time… but who does that anymore? Punkt is banking o […]
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Report: Amazon working on Alexa product that makes phone calls
Voice assistants have been a standard feature of smartphones for a few years, but Amazon’s Echo was the first device that successfully brought the technology into a smart home product. You can use a the Alexa voice assistant on an Amazon Echo to get news or weather updates by voice, play music, dim your smart […]
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BLU launches a phone with a 7 inch screen, $199 price tag
People sometimes use the word “phablet” to describe smartphones with nearly tablet-sized displays. But there are a handful of models that take the “nearly” out of the equation. Asus has the 7 inch Fonepad, and now BLU has the Studio 7.0 LTE. Like the Fonepad, the BLU Studio 7.0 LTE is basically a smartphone with […]
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Vertu’s Bentley phone costs more than some cars
Vertu is known for its high priced, low-tech devices. Some models costs thousands of dollars, and the new Vertu Signature for Bentley edition phone has a price tag of more than $22,000. It’s the latest phone to come out a 5-year partnership with luxury car-maker Bentley, and it might not seem like that much money […]