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A $200 smartphone does the same, but the article is about feature phones.
It's more about wanting to take a break from looking at a screen and watching shitty ads for so many hours per day.
People need to (re)discover adblockers and alternative apps.
We have the tools and technology, its just a matter of people making the move, but that's hard because of the network effect.
Hell, with all of the features that are being removed these days, there's no justification for the price.
Now that LG is out of the market, I had to get a Nokia smartphone just to get an external microSD card slot and aux port.
$1000+ phone with capped internal memory for the purpose of pushing subscription cloud storage? Or a $300 phone with expandable physical storage?