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May I point you towards a somewhat recent Pixel (6, 7, 8) so you can replace the OS with GrapheneOS? You can find verified unlocked phones on swappa.com and the process to upgrade the OS is fool proof on GrapheneOS.org.
You'll get state of the art privacy and a full featured phone.
not interested in downloading apps or connecting to the web, but will look into it, thank you!
There's plenty of useful offline apps in the F-Droid store, and you don't need to create an account (I don't think there's an option to do so).
oooooh thank you
Look at the Nokia 2780, Nokia 110, and/or the Nokia 3210.
They're modern equivalents to their predecessors of yore and run a simple non-smartphone OS (Kai OS) and use VoLTE so are compatible with modern networks. Bonus is they can do things like hotspot.
I was looking at those and similar about a year and a half ago when I wanted to switch to a dumb phone. I ended up compromising with the CAT S22 Flip which is a low-end Android phone in a flip phone form factor. Wasn't difficult to de-Google and was able to root it. Unfortunately, they're not made anymore so what's left is what's left. They've also jumped quite a bit in price since I got mine for $69.99 back in 2024.
hell yeah, thank you
FWIW, until I decided on the S22 Flip, the Nokia 2780 was my preferred candidate.
I'm replacing my phone with an HMD flip phone. I'm over the apps and the tracking.The specific one I'm getting also has no bluetooth....we'll see how that goes.
There are some 4g dumb phones but idk of any that don't suck. It might be possible to put a minimal launcher on a cheap android phone.
BIFL doesn't exist for phones. A physically indestructible titanium phone from 2015 would be useless today because it would be 3g and those networks are gone. Phones are consumables.
Buy It For Longest Possible Duration, then
