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@[email protected] to [email protected]English • 1 year ago

People want 'dumbphones'. Will companies make them?

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People want 'dumbphones'. Will companies make them?

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@[email protected] to [email protected]English • 1 year ago
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Self-labelled neo-Luddites and the tech-stressed are searching for phones with fewer features. Industry experts cite precarious profit margins and a wobbly market around this need.
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    Stick your credit card under the phone cover and you have tap to pay.

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      4•1 year ago

      Jokes aside, but in Russia, when NFC stopped working on Apple phones, some banks made payment stickers like this.

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      true. Though I don’t know how you’d lock it behind biometrics.

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        3•1 year ago

        Above 25 or 30 USD (don’t remember exactly) my bank requires me to enter the pin, that’s just as good.

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          Oh well, that works then.

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      1•1 year ago

      Although you should be using an RFID blocking case to hold your cards.

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