Hey there! I plan on switching back to a dumbphone once my current phone bites the dust, which will be sooner rather than later. I am on Xfinity for bundling purposes, and I definitely want a full qwerty keyboard, preferably slide. What are my options right now, that would be under the 500 dollar range? I’m totally open to blackberrys, too!

All I will be wanting it for is text and calling, but having navigation is nice, too.

  • ch00f@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    Not a lot of options in the physical keyboard space. At the moment, you can wait for the Minimal Phone though there’s a good chance it’ll never ship.

    There’s no physical keyboard, but the LightPhone III is coming out in the winter. Having used the LightPhone II for over a year, I can say that these people have really thought out the dumb phone experience. It’s a premium product for sure. My biggest complaints with the LPII involved the slow response of the eink display, and the LPIII should fix that by switching to amoled.

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      8 days ago

      Do you happen to know if the lightphone has a replaceable battery?

      NVM the 2 does not, the 3 not sure.