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Dumbphones
Raised as a usability problem by 11 people on Hacker News over 14 years (2013–2026), in 10 threads.
This is a broad category rather than one product, so its issues aren't ranked on the home page.
People raised many different problems with Dumbphones, but no single problem has yet been raised by 3 people in 3 different months and threads.
Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.
The newest 11 complaints
- Keyboard is really frustrating to use, too small for small fingers2026-06-04
- Mother keeps pressing wrong buttons and lands in browser or camera mode, unable to call2026-05-28
- Texting on a dumbphone is painful; typing is much slower than on touchscreens2024-11-11
- Bluetooth so bad headphones crack and fail to sync, making them unusable2024-01-08
- UX is so clunky the commenter hardly uses the phone2022-07-26
- Dumbphone is annoying to use for making phone calls2019-03-19
- Music app has a poor user experience that is hard to use2019-03-19
- T9 texting is frustrating enough that the person prefers calling instead2019-03-18
- Phone is laggy to boot up and its keyboard, the main input method, is a blocker2018-07-30
- MP3 player interface is so bad for long podcast tracks2018-04-16
- Common settings are reachable only by pressing random button combinations, so users must reset the clock manually2013-08-31