Smartphones are expensive. Ordinary, “dumb” cell phones are cheap. The trade-off is that basic candy-bar phones are inferior and no fun, and they can’t perform highfalutin tasks such as play ...

This basic, bar-style iDEN phone sports a color display, speakerphone, and voice dialing. Other features include polyphonic ringtones, MMS, push-to-talk (walkie-talkie), voice memo, GPS, and Java.

Briones, who is a basic phone user and the moderator of the forum r/dumbphones on Reddit, explains what people should know about these devices before making the transition. You might be wondering ...

This basic bar-style CDMA phone is similar to the Spex, but is lighter, steps up to a larger display, and adds MMS and voice dialing. Other features are similar, including Bluetooth and ...