These ____ basic handsets, or feature phones, with very limited functionality compared to say an iPhone. You ____ typically only make and receive calls and SMS text messages. Her current handset, from French firm MobiWire, cost her just £8. And because it ____ no smartphone functionality she ____ have an expensive monthly data bill to worry about. "I ____ notice until I bought a brick phone how much a smartphone ____ taking over my life," she says. "I ____ a lot of social media apps on it, and I didn't get as much work done as I was always on my phone." The Londoner adds that she ____ think she ____ ever buy another smartphone. "I ____ happy with my brick - I ____ think it limits me. I'm definitely more proactive." Dumbphones ____ continuing to enjoy a revival."It appears fashion, nostalgia, and them appearing in TikTok videos, ____ a part to play in the dumbphone revival," says Ernest Doku, mobiles expert at price comparison site Uswitch.com. "Many of us ____ a dumbphone as our first mobile phone, so it ____ natural that we feel a sense of nostalgia towards these classic handsets."Mr Doku says it ____ the 2017 relaunch of Nokia's 3310 handset - first released in 2000, and one of the biggest-selling mobiles of all time - that really sparked the revival. "Nokia pushed the 3310 as an affordable alternative in a world full of high-spec mobiles." "Before I ____ always be stuck to the phone, checking anything and everything, browsing Facebook or the news, or other facts I ____ need to know," he says. "Now I ____ more time for my family and me. A huge benefit is that I ____ not addicted to liking, sharing, commenting, or describing my life to other people. Now I have more privacy."One maker of dumbphones ____ New York company Light Phone. Slightly more clever that the norm for such products, its handsets ____ allow users to listen to music and podcasts, and link by Bluetooth to headphones. Yet the firm pledges that its phones "____ never have social media, clickbait news, email, an internet browser, or any other anxiety-inducing infinite feed".

auxilaries (taken from BBC/ Dumbphones)

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