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Ask HN: Are there any 5G feature phone out there?

by thetoon on 6/1/23, 8:25 AM with 13 comments

I'd like to decouple phone and "pocket computer", for both security and "digital hygiene" reasons.

So far, feature phones I could find are 4G at best. Though I definitely thought there'd be a market for connection sharing capable 5G feature phones. Am I alone?

  • by thetoon on 6/1/23, 10:48 AM

    For anyone interested, there is a database here : https://dumbphones.pory.app/

  • by jimlikeslimes on 6/1/23, 10:17 AM

    I follow this market a little, and haven't seen one yet. The brands I'd check would be Nokia and Doro. There was a company making small power bank and feature phone combo but I can't remember the name.

    It might be more fruitful to look at mobile broadband hotspots or whatever they're being called now. Could imagine a 5g one of those would be more likely?

  • by antics9 on 6/1/23, 10:33 AM

  • by runjake on 6/1/23, 1:02 PM

    There's not, that I'm aware of, at least in the US market.

    And using a feature phone for security reasons is laughable. Feature phones are notoriously insecure.

    If you need tethering, just use a 5G hotspot.

  • by cbeach on 6/1/23, 11:00 AM

    Why are we using the term “feature phone” to describe phones that have unusually few features?

  • by ksec on 6/1/23, 9:12 AM

    Why 5G feature phone ? I assume you want 5G purely for future proving ?