I wanted to punish my daughter with a no-frills phone but it didn't go to plan

Re:I wanted to punish my daughter with a no-frills phone but... by dgellow on Sunday August 04, 2019 @04:13PM (#20608968)

Please don't take it badly, and only answer if you want to, but how old are you? What you call "intelligence test akin to solving a Rubik's Cube" is what absolutely everybody was doing before the release of the iPhone (so up to 2007).

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Re:I wanted to punish my daughter with a no-frills phone but... by antisemiotic on Sunday August 04, 2019 @04:31PM (#20609048)

Not sure what GP means by a "burner phone", but I can see a pretty wide chasm between classic "dumb phones" (I fondly remember my armored Nokia 5510 with a weapons-grade antenna) and transitionary pseudo-smartphones (like an Alcatel wossitsname that my grandpa used to have) which managed to get the worst of both worlds (touch screen with idiotic mapping and no undo, etc.)

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Re:I wanted to punish my daughter with a no-frills phone but... by Theodores on Sunday August 04, 2019 @04:35PM (#20609067)

Funny how I 'must be an idiot' for suggesting this, or stupidly aged.

My observation is a genuine one. When was the last time you tried a modern burner phone?

They are not your grandma's Nokia. They will have a brand you have never heard of and the functions will be upgraded to give lame access to WhatsApp or some other internet functionality that was not around before 2007.

The other thing is that you can quickly forget the strange button presses and hacks that went with the original burner phone interface. To take an automotive analogy, sure we hand-started cars once and you can hand-start them now but you don't get the same handle that used to come with them.

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