I Can see this trend growing, I’m apart of buying older refurbished phones.

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?

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

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.

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

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.

Havent seen “$100 feature phone” since 2017 when my grandpa upgraded his phone
- gen z

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!

These articles of “Gen Z is doing X” is always wrong lol.