Feature phones are having a quiet resurgence in 2025. As smartphone fatigue grows, more users are turning to minimal devices that focus on core functions like calling, texting, and music playback.

Kenya’s 2025 feature phone comeback is cutting internet access, slowing social media, and reversing digital gains.

There is no doubt that smartphones have ensnared us in diverse ills, from idle doomscrolling to disrupting our sleep patterns and exposing us to a wide range of bad information. These concerns have ...

Over the past few years we’ve seen a number of efforts to bring physical keyboards back to smartphones. But we’ve also seen a growing number of efforts to make smartphones… less smart, as a way to ...

The Catch Me Up feature on Motorola phones, also known as Update Me, is especially handy when you've been in a meeting or away from your phone for a while. Instead of scrolling through a long list of ...

PhonePe Limited announced an IP purchase of conversational engagement platform Gupshup’s proprietary ‘GSPay’ technology stack for enabling UPI-based payments for feature phones. GSPay is a mobile ...

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