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Re:Ask HN: What feature phone do you use and recommend? by Minor49er on Saturday August 14, 2021 @11:55AM (#28181637)
The ones with the pull-out keyboards? I thought they were just well-made feature phones. I could be wrong
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Re:Ask HN: What feature phone do you use and recommend? by Jtsummers on Saturday August 14, 2021 @02:01PM (#28182706)
Feature phones are pretty much limited embedded OS phones. Rarely with app installation. And almost always camera and text messaging. Maybe web access.

Blackberry devices were more like a proper PDA with phone support.

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Re:Ask HN: What feature phone do you use and recommend? by Minor49er on Saturday August 14, 2021 @09:28PM (#28185459)
Yeah, you are correct. Though it depends on what you mean by "app installation." Many feature phones supported Java applets. I had some third-party games on my first Motorola feature phones.
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