Feature phone

Dumbphone [ dʌmfəʊn ] ( engl. dumb = stupid and phone = phone) is formed in the 1990s in reference to the word smartphone, and occasionally also used in the German language name for a mobile phone without internet connection and without touchscreen.

The term is a dumbphone retronym, ie a neologism that refers to the era before the smartphones. He has a slightly derogatory connotation.

First time in 2013 more smartphones were sold than dumbphones world.

Other names

A common in English, the dumbphone related, is the name of the feature phones ( mutatis mutandis: telephone with special features ). Thus mobile phones are meant working less than smartphones, but to more than just phone calls. A typical feature phone has the capability of mobile telephony addition, for example, a camera or a web browser.

An original German term for particularly chunky, early mobile phones is bone, a designation that has occasionally been used because of the characteristic shape for the phone.