Andy Rubin Puts Essential Up for Sale, Cancels Next Phone

Re:Andy Rubin Puts Essential Up for Sale, Cancels Next Phone by FractalLP on Thursday May 24, 2018 @05:48PM (#17148767)

Glad to know others exist that just want a basic device that will last a week without charging without massive bloat and apps I don't care about.

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Re:Andy Rubin Puts Essential Up for Sale, Cancels Next Phone by icebraining on Thursday May 24, 2018 @06:40PM (#17149136)

You can get one for <$30, they're called featurephones. The rebooted Nokia 3310 claims one month of (stand by) battery life.

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Re:Andy Rubin Puts Essential Up for Sale, Cancels Next Phone by FractalLP on Thursday May 24, 2018 @11:18PM (#17150370)

Aggh, sorry...I meant to be agreeing more with the parent comment I replied to. I want all that plus an e-ink screen running freeBSD and some very basic browsing. I don't think old Nokia dumb phones had that.

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Re:Andy Rubin Puts Essential Up for Sale, Cancels Next Phone by s73v3r_ on Thursday May 24, 2018 @09:33PM (#17149952)

Feature Phones are still a thing. You can still get such a thing.

https://www.verizonwireless.com/basic-phones/

There's a whole bunch of phones that do basically what you're looking for.

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Re:Andy Rubin Puts Essential Up for Sale, Cancels Next Phone by IncRnd on Thursday May 24, 2018 @07:59PM (#17149564)

Just buy a dumb phone. It does exactly what you described.

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