Smartphones like the new Apple iPhone 5 is all anyone can talk about, but dumbphones are still very much being used, sometimes as symbol of proud anti-consumerism as we've documented. Turns out, hipsters aside, the real people driving dumb phone sales are teenagers, according to this chart by comScore Data Mine.
After coming across the alarming statistic that forty percent of the New York City's 911 calls came from "butt dials" we were baffled that people still keep phones so near their butts, as this is generally a very bad idea.
Smartphones generally get all the tech press attention, but this week dumbphones and their loyal owners have popped up in two trend stories.
BuzzFeed's newest vertical, a tech news section called FWD, looks great with its nice grey logo and BuzzFeed-y layout. But we're not sure the coverage so far goes beyond gimmick.
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