Are our phones becoming too smart to do dumb stuff?

Re:Are our phones becoming too smart to do dumb stuff? by dave4420 on Tuesday July 12, 2022 @05:15PM (#32075791)

I don’t remember being able to do ANYTHING with a locked dumbphone, apart from answer calls.

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Re:Are our phones becoming too smart to do dumb stuff? by CRConrad on Tuesday July 12, 2022 @07:01PM (#32076905)

Silencing the alarm clock.

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Re:Are our phones becoming too smart to do dumb stuff? by dave4420 on Thursday July 14, 2022 @07:33AM (#32094558)

Fair enough. I never managed to work out how to set an alarm on my dumb phones.

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Re:Are our phones becoming too smart to do dumb stuff? by CRConrad on Monday July 18, 2022 @05:43AM (#32136312)

Ah, dumbphone; I may have missed that, and been thinking smartphone. Can't really recall if I ever did that on the old 6230i (etc) either.

But anyway, AFAICS answering[1] a phone call and silencing[2] an alarm are about the only functions you should be able to do on a locked phone, be it "dumb" or "smart".

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[1]: ObPedantry: Or dismissing. And hanging up when you're done talking.

[2]: ---- " ----: Or snoozing.

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