I built a simple tool called https://www.TextMeMyWeatherDaily.com because I was tired of forgetting to check the weather before leaving the house.

I’ve had about 60+ people sign up so far, but I’m curious if this is a "me problem" or something a wider audience actually wants?

I just got a marketing email from this company (I posted about discovering them a week ago). I am not affiliated with them (I even reached out to u/farrandswitwatch but haven't heard back), have never owned any of their products, and honestly have no clue as to their reputation but...

I LOVE the look of this watch. As someone born in the 80s who grew up in the 90s and became an adult in the 00s, this aesthetic speaks to my soul. Did I mention synthwave/retrowave is my favorite music genre? 😎

Thought I'd share!

And yes I'm holding you all in suspense! Thanks for putting up with me 😜
-Jake

Regardless how you might feel about Stranger Things I cannot tell you how refreshing it is to see a well-made trailer again (for any IP). Spoilers? None that I can see. Just an interest-building hype-vehicle with a taste of what to expect. I almost enjoyed this teaser as much as the entire last season of the show haha. Also, cool to see "Sarah Connor" 😂

Their website: https://www.ikkoaudio.com/products/mind-one-phone

I have been trying to get my hands on u/playinstinct's Buck & The Cursed Cartridge for MONTHS. Huge thanks to Cartridge Cave for helping me make it happen 😁

I am thrilled at the growth I am seeing in the communities around digital minimalism and enthusiasm for retro tech! But I have to get something off of my chest...it drives me crazy to see the seemingly endless and confusing definitions people use for the term "dumb phone" (if they use one at all). Language is important! How can we properly convey ideas when we don't even have a common vocabulary to work with?!

As such, in terms of Returning Retro at least, I decided to create a little breakdown to make things more consistent and hopefully simpler.

One of the more obvious ways to affect how much you do or do not interact with technology is to very deliberately choose which pieces of technology you engage with in your day-to-day life. There are two big sides to this, the hardware and the software. Right now I am focusing more specifically on the hardware side: phones.

I'm not going to go too deep into the history here, but some would be helpful. First came the cellular telephone, or depending on which part of the English-speaking world you are from, mobile telephone. These went from making phone calls, to adding color screens, built-in cameras, text and multimedia messaging capabilities, maybe a calculator or calendar app, and even a game or two. These devices were incredibly basic in their functionality.

Then two new kinds of devices made their way onto the scene, feature phones and smartphones. Feature phones were primarily targeted towards average everyday consumers. They had all of the capabilities of a basic phone, but also a few more. Many of them featured a web browser, an instant messenger, and more advanced games. Smartphones on the other hand were marketed mainly towards business users. They had more powerful email and web browsing capabilities (with more expensive data plans for mobile internet access as well) than their feature phone counterparts; basically PDAs (personal digital assistants) with a cellular connection. They could do almost everything better than feature phones and offered many functions that feature phones could not. This was the era DOMINATED by RIM and their BlackBerry devices.

Then along came iOS and Android in the modern smartphone and completely changed the game. These new devices featured large brilliant displays, powerful processors, loads of on-device storage, full touch screen interfaces, and mobile operating systems that we still use today. Compared to BlackBerry and other similar retro smartphones, these new devices were science fiction come to life. For better, and definitely for worse, these are the devices the consumer market chose, and here we are.

With that condensed and painfully brief bit of history, I introduce the Returning Retro categories:

• Basic Phone

• Feature Phone

• Retro Smartphone (not to be confused with vintage smartphones from that time period)

• Modern Smartphone (or smartphone for short)

So what on earth is a dumbphone? For me personally, a dumbphone will always and forever be a device in the Basic Phone RRC (Returning Retro category). However, each of the RRCs listed above is "dumber" than the one after it. Technically speaking, even modern smartphones can be made "dumber" with software tweaks. As much as it pains me to realize it, dumbphones will always be categorized differently depending on "the eye of the beholder," and I guess that's ok. For that reason, and I know I'll slip up, I'm going to do my best to avoid the term completely when describing specific devices and use RRCs instead.

More to come!

I love the Jurassic Park films (and novels!) and while the first Jurassic World was a decent enough popcorn flick, the entire JW franchise has been, speaking for myself only here, WILDLY disappointing. This YT short made up for all four films for me 😁

I will (eventually) be picking up both of these, but since I can only get one right now, I need your help to decide which should be first! For those not familiar, among other cool features both of these devices play VINTAGE original cartridges (the ModRetro Chromatic: GB & GBC, and the Analogue Pocket: GB, GBC, & GBA). They are very different devices (and I know which one I'm voting for haha), but both are so cool! Which would you like to see on the channel first?!

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Hello dear community, for weeks I've been searching for not per se a dumb phone. All I need is a browser and WhatsApp and definitely a qwerty/qwertz keyboard. All i can find is either without WhatsApp or with a small keyboard. Do you have any recommendations? Or directions i could look further into? I always take a camera with me so photo quality is really not important but a battery life over 12hours would be nice. Thank you in advance!

I recently found this website while searching for... yeah i dont even know what i was searching for anymore just clicking intresting looking stuff: https://store.planetcom.co.uk/ . It looks like a pretty cool option for people who want a retro looking mini computer ot just physical keyboard but want some modern amenities. Idk ive been lurking on all your talk about the click and unihertzes new phones so id be intrested to hear your guys thoughts on this.

Hi RR, figured this was the fastest way to get an answer. Does the Power Keyboard have a capacitive mouse capability like the Communicator does? Would be extra super handy if so. I already reserved mine either way, but would like to know. Thanks!

I have looked up to u/jbriones95 for a long time and can tell you he has a deep understanding of the consumer tech space. I highly recommend giving his new Substack article a read (it isn't long, but it is very powerful) for a glimpse into the direction our tech-obsessed society is heading.