It’s just a sad state of affairs.” Such concerns have turned many parents to dumb phones. Also known as “brick” or “feature” phones, they are old-fashioned mobiles that have basic ...

Apart from the survey, we get five regular teenagers to swop their smartphones for brick phones for 10 days. And we follow their time away from their screens, chronicling the frustration ...

Concerns about the impact of social media are driving demand for old-school Nokia brick-like handsets, now known as feature phones. If Apple (AAPL.O), opens new tab and Samsung don’t find a way ...

Eton College is providing basic "brick" phones to pupils set to start at the school in September. The devices, which can only send and receive texts and calls, will be given to Year 9 boys joining ...

New year nine pupils, who turn 14 during the school year, will be given Nokia ‘brick’ phones which only make calls and send texts. The £49,000 per year school wrote to parents about the new ...

A west London school has banned smartphones for younger pupils and will only allow basic “brick” phones from the start of term this week. The Fulham Boys School’s head teacher David Smith ...

The aim of the year-long collaboration is to create a ‘better phone’, one that will serve as a compromise between a smartphone and a ‘brick’ phone. The Fulham Boys School has written to ...