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

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?

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

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

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.

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.

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!

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

I though genZ only bought iPhone because of the green bubble or something?

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