Comment on Only 3% of UK 12-year-olds don’t have a smartphone. Here is how four of them feel about it

TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

Honestly a big part of this is that the “dumb” phones are just as, if not more, expensive than a used or low end smartphone.

My daughter did use a dumb phone for a while, but then they started shutting down 2G and some 3G masts in the area and it was causing problems. There are some newer dumb phones that can use 4G, but given the prices and half of them still using micro usb for some damn reason (I’m a big fan of just carrying around one charger) it made more sense for me to give her an old smartphone and lock it down a little.

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