Feature phone

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A typical feature phone from 2015: the Nokia 130

A feature phone (also feature phone or feature phone ) is a mobile phone that is less than a smartphone does, however, more than just phone calls can. Typically, such a telephone also has, for example, a camera , a radio receiver , an organizer and MP3 player as well as simple games and also a web browser , which can be controlled via a graphic user interface .

The most important difference to smartphones is the lack of a touchscreen and the use of a different operating system (e.g. KaiOS , Java ME or Symbian OS ) than the popular Android or iOS . As a result, not all apps of these systems run on feature phones . A big advantage of feature phones over smartphones is the longer battery life.

Feature phones are sold by companies such as Caterpillar (Cat), Nokia , Samsung and LG , among others . The devices are sold in developing and emerging countries , such as B. the JioPhone in India .

In 2013, more smartphones than feature phones were sold worldwide for the first time.

Other names

The older term dumbphone [ dʌmfəʊn ] ( Engl. Dumb = stupid and phone = phone) is created in in the 1990s retronym , so a neologism referring to the era before the smartphones ( Engl. Smart = smart and phone = phone) refers . It is also used occasionally in the German-speaking area. Dumbphone has a slightly derogatory connotation .

Individual evidence

  1. Smartphones Accounted for 57.6 Percent of Total Sales in Fourth Quarter of 2013 , gartner.com, February 13, 2014, accessed February 15, 2014
  2. Definition of dumbphone in the Oxford Dictionaries
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