Interest in Dumb Phones Is Skyrocketing. Are We Finally Rethinking What Smartphones Cost Us?

We grew up with a phone that never stopped talking to us. Every app wanted a notch of attention, every red dot demanded a tap, every silence got filled with a buzz in the pocket. That was the deal from middle school on, and for a long time, nobody thought to question it because there was no memory of anything else.Now a growing number of us are asking for less. Not a better phone: a dumber one.Google searches for “dumbphones” jumped 89% between 2018 and 2021, according to SEMrush dat