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 ...

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 ...

She told ITV’s Good Morning Britain: “I was very naive going into it, we handed our phones in, and we obviously needed some form of communication so we had a brick phone for three weeks.

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 ...

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 ...

Eton College is swapping out first year student's smartphones for Nokias. The policy comes as the boarding school is trying to cope with an increasingly digital world for students. Students will ...