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Cold turkey devices No feed at all. Calls, texts, maybe maps.

Hardware-induced friction Android made slow or small on purpose.

Locked-down smartphones A normal phone with the pull cut out at the OS.

Cheap entry points Flips and keypads, mostly under $100.

Enthusiast imports and alternatives Keitai and odd imports. Check the bands.

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Shape Keypad bar 17 QWERTY 6 Flip 26 Slab 19 Watch 1

Must have USB-C 63 Headphone jack 39 VoLTE confirmed 53 WhatsApp 29 Wi-Fi hotspot 50 Android Auto 18 Removable battery 37 Camera 60 Kosher version 7

Include apps you'd have to sideloadMust not have No web browser 25 No email 21 No app store 24 No sideloading 33 No camera 4

Software Custom minimal OS 14 Android 34 KaiOS 3 Nokia S30+ 8 Feature phone OS 6 iOS 3 watchOS 1

Price Under $100 24 $100 to $300 28 $300 to $500 24 Over $500 11

Screen E-ink / e-paper 6 Color e-ink 2 OLED 12 LCD 45

Availability Shipping 41 Pre-order 7 Secondhand or limited 21

Sold in United States 52 Canada 28 Latin America 27 United Kingdom 29 Europe 36 Ships worldwide 34

Kind of dumb Cold turkey devices 13 Hardware-induced friction 18 Locked-down smartphones 6 Cheap entry points 24 Enthusiast imports and alternatives 8

Texting RCS 19 Group texts 50

Audio Spotify 28 Podcasts 38 Apple Music 28 Your own MP3s 59

Maps Google Maps 27 HERE 26 Waze 23 Apple Maps 3 Built-in maps 7 Browser only 1 No maps at all 15

Rideshare Uber 27 Lyft 24 Tremp 3 No way to hail a ride 32

Tremp books an Uber or a Lyft over the network, so a phone with no app store can still get you one.

AT&T 21 T-Mobile 36 Verizon 19

Only what the maker or a retailer has said in writing. Blank is not a no.

2G 43 3G 49 4G 69 5G 18

Tick more than one and the phone needs all of them.

microSD slot 46 Dual SIM 33 eSIM 15

OEM all of them AGM 4 Apple 3 Balance Phone 2 Bigme 4 CAT (Bullitt, under license) 1 Clicks 1 Commodore 1 dumb.co 1 Dumber 1 Duoqin 3 HMD/Nokia 10 Keyphone 1 Kyocera 6 Light 3 Megalife 1 Mindphone 1 Mudita 2 Punkt. 2 Samsung 1 Schok 1 Sharp 1 Sidephone 1 SLEKE. 1 Sonim 1 Sunbeam Wireless 2 TCL 2 Techless 1 The Minimal Company 2 TobiPhone 1 Unihertz 4 Unnecto 1 Vortex 1 Zinwa 2

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Prices drift and phones go out of stock. I keep it current by hand, as best I can.

Full Android with a real keyboard, and a home screen that is just your messages.

A retro flip running Sailfish OS, with a VFD-style cover screen. Pre-order.

Light's take on a flip phone, with T9 and a real hinge. Ships 2027.

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The Minimal Company

The sequel drops E Ink for AMOLED and keeps the keyboard. Pre-order for December.

Zinwa's own QWERTY design on Android 16. Pre-order, production depends on demand.

A Galaxy A37 with the distracting apps blocked at system level, and you can't undo it.

Color e-ink with stylus support, on open Android 14. Reading first.

A tiny Android keypad phone that still runs WhatsApp, Spotify and Maps.

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dumb.co

Twenty dollars plus a plan. The cheapest way to try a second, dumber number.

A flagship-shaped keypad Android with the browser and app store taken out.

HMD's first keypad phone with a front camera, for video calls on a keypad.

A 2.4 inch keypad phone with a VGA camera on each face, for Xpress chat video calls.

A 2026 keypad Nokia with a front camera and a long standby.

The 2026 refresh adds a front camera and an assistant button you may not want.

A managed iPhone. iMessage and FaceTime stay, the App Store and the browser go.

A pocket-sized rugged flip with a notification LED on the lid and a dedicated SOS key.

A keypad phone with a 4,000mAh battery that doubles as a power bank.

The Galaxy S25 version of the same idea, for people who still want a great camera.

Same phone, black and white panel. Sharper text, no color layer.

A full Android phone on a color e-paper screen. Slower on purpose.

Modular and repairable. Keypad, battery, camera and screen all swap out.

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Mudita

A 4.3 inch E Ink phone with offline maps and a hardware privacy switch.

Swap the keypad tile and the phone changes character. T9 comes in the box.

An upcycled Pixel running a custom OS built around answers rather than feeds.

A 5G KaiOS flip with a big battery. Has a browser, so bring some discipline.

A square-screen Android with a physical QWERTY. More BlackBerry than dumbphone.

A clamshell with a full QWERTY keyboard for under seventy dollars.

A Razr homage for forty dollars. Reviews are blunt about what you get.

A rugged Android flip with an approved-apps list and no browser at all.

A real BlackBerry Classic shell with modern guts inside. A keyboard cult favorite.

The original HiBreak. Older Android, smaller screen, lowest price.

A restyled Nokia flip in pink, with stickers and a beaded strap.

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Light

The minimalist flagship. OLED, a scroll wheel, and nothing to scroll.

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The Minimal Company

E Paper screen, physical QWERTY, full Play Store. You supply the willpower.

A keypad Nokia with USB-C and an FM radio. Under seventy dollars.

A slightly bigger keypad Nokia with dual SIM and a 2MP camera.

The 2024 remake of the classic. Snake included, Wi-Fi left out.

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Slower Living Club pick Limited stock

Sunbeam Wireless

Sunbeam's cheaper flip. Same idea, smaller battery, lower res screen.

A rugged flip with a real menu of software builds. Pick how dumb you want it.

A full Android phone shrunk until scrolling stops being comfortable.

A Samsung locked down by WiseOS. Modern hardware, curated tools, monthly fee.

A rugged flip built around a very loud speaker and an SOS key.

Forty-nine dollars, IP68, and a keypad. As basic as a phone gets.

A Chinese anti-addiction school phone. Its LTE bands barely touch US networks.

A Japanese rugged keitai that actually works on US LTE.

A privacy-first Android alternative from Punkt. A smartphone, but a careful one.

A credit-card-sized Android with a see-through back and a headphone jack.

A T9 keypad under a 3.54-inch touchscreen. Google Play only on the global units.

The carrier-flexible Kyocera rugged flip, with push to talk.

The ultra-rugged Verizon flip. Washable, drop-proof, and winding down.

The 2780's older sibling. A slightly bigger screen on a slower chip.

The default US flip phone. KaiOS, VoLTE, and a removable battery.

An AT&T Android flip with email and hearing aid support. Cheap on the used market.

The cheapest Jelly, and Android 12 is the last version it will ever run.

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CAT (Bullitt, under license)

A rugged Android flip with a touchscreen and the Play Store. Getting hard to find.

A 2.8-inch touchscreen over a T9 keypad, on Android 11. The F22 Pro's smaller, older sibling.

The last small iPhone Apple made, and it still takes the current iOS.

The AT&T-flavored rugged Kyocera. Secondary market only now.

A tidy au flip that dropped Japan's 3G, so calls there are VoLTE or nothing.

The E Ink keypad phone that came before the Kompakt. Secondhand only.

A budget rugged flip with a no-camera option for restricted workplaces.

A SoftBank keitai with a proper English menu and an awkward band list.

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Slower Living Club pick Limited stock

Light

E Ink, tiny, and still supported. Where a lot of people started.

An Android flip that is mostly known for being loud.

A Sharp keitai for Japan, Europe, or the look. Skip it for a US line.

Jasper Morrison design, Signal-based messaging, no camera. A tool, plainly.

Leave the iPhone in a drawer and wear the phone instead. Setup needs the iPhone once.

A touchscreen Android flip from 2017. Charming, and out of security updates.

A 4 inch iPhone with VoLTE, so the network still takes it. The apps are what moved on.

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