Etiqueta: dumbphone

 Though persistently developing into a renewed commercial success through the past three years, featurephone revival has been at least scarcely divulged. Related news hardly started to pop up in the media in the first quarter of the present year. Notwithstanding the delay, opinion and analysis articles haven’t stopped to undo the silence around the so largely unreported phenomenon.Dumbphone devices global come back, however, might have been surely enough exposed and studied much more in advance. It’s widely acknowledged nowadays that the internet searches have been clearly announcing a rising interest in them for three years in a row since 2018. From online search indexes studies early performed, the featurephone revival could have been openly payed attention to quite before. As a matter of fact, there’s a direct proportionality between a commercialized article’s popularity, shown through its being searched in the media, and its sales results. Thus, online search analyses provide reliable indicators on which sales rate predictions are commonly based.   Another...

 Besides calling the analysts’ interest dumbphone revival is naturally knocking at the phone manufacturer’s door as well. Feature phone return also may be, and certainly is, looked upon with growing interest from the manufacturing opportunity side for it reopens a business sector gradually reduced to its minimal expression since smartphone launch.The message its growing preference among the public is sending all over the phone market invites the involved enterprises to replan investments in order to supply the emerging demand. In eastern markets, traditionally most populous ones in which affordability keeps on being more decisive a purchasing factor, featurephone sales rise should be expected to represent a long-term safer initiative. On the contrary, in Europe as well as in the USA the commercial reintroduction could be not so profitable lasting since here and there the market on the rise move seems to be based more on a nostalgic or fashionable trend.   Under the social analysis light, however, the present phenomenon goes far...

 MANY PEOPLE, myself therein, being struck by dumbphone (*) revival intend to find suitable explanations by which its real implications may be anticipated. Also referred to as feature phone, its remarkable return to commercial charts has been persistently increasing in figures for three years now as social surveys and consumer preference analysis haven’t ceased to report. (*) Though somewhat unwillingly we shall follow the fashion of so calling the cellphone models previous to smartphone. Those hitherto forlorn handsets just tipically featured the ability of sending / receiving calls and SMS text messages. Devoided of internet access, data was displayed on a mini non-touch screen and dealed with by press-button based inputs. (Nevertheless they were good enough for their time and deserving of acknowledgement for good service).   Dumbphone revival. That’s at least the news actually spread by most reliable sources dealing with mobile phone trends. Predictions made in 2019, before the appearance of incipient signs, were fully accomplished during the following years:...