The hottest new phone is Tin Can, a 'landline' for kids

Re:The hottest new phone is Tin Can, a 'landline' for kids by utopiah on Monday March 23, 2026 @06:37AM (#47487572)

Most of those "ideas" are basically :

- take a phone, remove features, package with bright colors, profit (or VC then profit, maybe).

Sadly a lot of those aren't recycling old gadgets, they are just making new ones and block features, lock down in their own "store", etc. I think it's actually quite terrible.

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Re:The hottest new phone is Tin Can, a 'landline' for kids by eloisant on Monday March 23, 2026 @06:51AM (#47487649)

Yes, and dumbphones exist (again). You can buy a newer version of the Nokia 3210 that charges with USB-C and works on modern cell networks.

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Re:The hottest new phone is Tin Can, a 'landline' for kids by philips on Monday March 23, 2026 @07:10AM (#47487815)

The main feature I want for my kids is an explicit allow list to keep them from gettin spam or talking to randoms.

The manual I found doesn't seem to have this feature. Also the advertising page has "Cloud Apps for news, weather, and more" :( https://www.hmd.com/en_int/nokia-3210?sku=1GF025CPD4L02

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Re:The hottest new phone is Tin Can, a 'landline' for kids by eloisant on Monday March 23, 2026 @09:14AM (#47489069)

Yes you should check KaiOS phones for that.

Now the problem is that they're not "dumb" enough as they have a web browser, youtube etc, but that can be considered fine because the experience for those is so bad that it's unlikely to get addicting.

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Re:The hottest new phone is Tin Can, a 'landline' for kids by utopiah on Tuesday March 24, 2026 @04:18AM (#47499856)

How about a PinePhone with DeltaChat?

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