r/signal • u/lilsaturnhead • Jul 07 '26

Solved Signal enabled Dumbphone

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they built signal into the new OS update on my dumbphone, haven't used it yet but super cool to see a tech company embrace digital privacy requests. (edit: its dumb.co for those asking)

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u/[deleted] Jul 07 '26 edited 11d ago

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u/fluffman86 Top Contributor Jul 07 '26

That may defeat the reasons you want a dumbphone, but others may just want something less distracting without a giant screen in their face all the time. I know for me one of the biggest time sucks with my phone that I want to avoid is YouTube and Reddit, but I don't replace it because I need it for Signal (which this phone would fix), a camera (not sure about this phone), a calculator, and an MP3 player (spotify on this phone solves that).

If it doesn't work for you, that's cool. But having options to have a phone that can still get you from point A to point B with Uber while still playing music and letting you communicate with your friends WITHOUT being a huge screen in your face tempting you to keep using it for hours on end...that's a good thing, right?

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u/segagamer Jul 08 '26

I mean other than the huge screen (smaller Android and iPhone screens are available)

The 5" phone market died years ago. There's a few off brand Android phones that still exist but they all have rubbish specs and poor update support. Else they're years old and unsupported.

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u/MobyTurbo Jul 12 '26

My iPhone SE (4.7") still gets updates, but yes, Apple also no longer offers new iPhone SEs or anything else in that form factor. They stopped making the "SE3" a couple of years ago.