The Dhaka Times Desk Although it is the age of smartphones, many people now use button phones instead of smartphones. So the one-time button phone looks like it's going to be popular again.
Many think he needs a phone just to keep in touch. And that's why using a feature phone works. Because the time spent on smartphone apps can be spent studying or with family and friends.
Interestingly, this feature phone is suddenly becoming popular in the developed countries of Europe and America. What we call 'button' phones. They are also known as 'dumb' or 'dumb phones' in the market because they do not have the facilities of smartphones. At the beginning of the 21st century, these phones were trusted by everyone. Button phones of various models of the popular Nokia brand were then a symbol of nobility. Those phones are now seen in hand again. Not only the old generation but also the new generation are seeing these phones in hand. Keeping an eye on their needs, different companies are making different types of button phones.
Nokia feature phone
Button phones are basically basic handsets with limited functionality compared to a smartphone. You can only make calls and SMS on this phone. You can listen to the big FM radio, take low-resolution photos or even play prehistoric games like Snake. But despite these limitations, many are going back to the dumbphone era.
Feature phones are slowly entering people's daily lives. According to a report by the software company 'Semarsh', there has been a 90 percent increase in searches for feature phones on Google since 2018. More than 1 billion feature phones were sold in 2020. The previous year i.e. in 2019 the number was 60 crores.
According to a study by accountancy group Deloitte, one in 10 mobile phone users in the UK now has a button phone. It is not that they are uneducated workers or poor. It is seen that this phone is seen in the hands of rich family students, high earning working women, men or VIPs. Even in India more than 40 crore people are still using this phone. The sale of these phones is also increasing in the United States. A large part of the new generation is holding only a feature phone. Many feel that it is not making them unsmart, but rather making them smarter. Researchers say that smartphones are having a negative impact on people's intelligence, limiting the use of their own intelligence, and on the other hand, there is damage to health.
British mobile expert Ernest Doku believes that people's minds are actually changing. When the smartphone era, the social media era started from the button phone, then people thought that this was their life. But for many these days digital communication or digital entertainment has become boring. So going back to feature phones. Giving yourself more time. Again, someone is going back to this phone out of nostalgia. He said that in 2020, the Nokia 3310 set topped the list of best-selling mobile phones after its re-launch, which is really indicative of something new.
So experts say that as phones become smarter, people's privacy is also in crisis. You probably can't even remember how many places you've knowingly or unknowingly shared your personal information or photos, out of time or health risk. The possibility of misuse of these data or images is not very low. For these reasons, many consider smartphones unnecessary and want to go back to the one-time 'father-grandfather's' button phone!
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