<story><title>An App Platform for Dumb Phones</title><url>http://www.dumbsto.re/</url><text></text></story><parent_chain><item><author>rapind</author><text>I actually spent some time looking into dumb phones a couple years ago. My favorite would be the motofone. It&apos;s got an e-ink display, which is great for battery and sunlight, and 2 antennas which is also great if you &lt;i&gt;heaven forbid&lt;/i&gt; make actual calls with it. Also, pretty sturdy, small, and light.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motorola_Fone&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motorola_Fone&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Beware though, if you txt a lot, you won&apos;t like it. Not enough real estate for the crazy font they use.&lt;p&gt;There are also these &lt;i&gt;printed&lt;/i&gt; cell phones showing up. Do a google for &quot;card phone&quot;. Pretty interesting.</text></item><item><author>bryogenic</author><text>Slightly off topic, are there actually any good (i.e. recommendable) dumb phones?  It has been an interesting market to try to navigate and research.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kevinconroy</author><text>I had a Motofone (also called F3) for the last 7 years. It started with a two week working battery life. It&apos;s a pain to text message on since it only shows 4 or 5 characters on, but it just &lt;i&gt;worked&lt;/i&gt; as a reliable phone. Finally switched to an iPhone 5 after it became vital for me to have full Internet access 24/7 for work. If it weren&apos;t for that, I&apos;d still have my F3. I love it as much as I love my iPhone 5.&lt;p&gt;You can still find some of them on eBay. I&apos;d offer mine, but I&apos;m keeping it as an emergency (911) phone for my car.</text></comment>
<story><title>An App Platform for Dumb Phones</title><url>http://www.dumbsto.re/</url><text></text></story><parent_chain><item><author>rapind</author><text>I actually spent some time looking into dumb phones a couple years ago. My favorite would be the motofone. It&apos;s got an e-ink display, which is great for battery and sunlight, and 2 antennas which is also great if you &lt;i&gt;heaven forbid&lt;/i&gt; make actual calls with it. Also, pretty sturdy, small, and light.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motorola_Fone&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motorola_Fone&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Beware though, if you txt a lot, you won&apos;t like it. Not enough real estate for the crazy font they use.&lt;p&gt;There are also these &lt;i&gt;printed&lt;/i&gt; cell phones showing up. Do a google for &quot;card phone&quot;. Pretty interesting.</text></item><item><author>bryogenic</author><text>Slightly off topic, are there actually any good (i.e. recommendable) dumb phones?  It has been an interesting market to try to navigate and research.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>JimJames</author><text>I used this phone for about 6 months. The screen made it hard to navigate the menus and got in the way of even simple things like adding someone to your address book. The battery life was good but it was not significantly longer than the battery life of other dumb phones (since the screen is mostly off it doesn&apos;t make a huge difference).&lt;p&gt;Eventually I traded it in for a cheap nokia with an lcd.</text></comment>