Products · Broad category
Feature phones
Raised as a usability problem by 7 people on Hacker News over 14 years (2011–2024), in 7 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 Feature phones, 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 7 complaints
- Typing a single letter required repeatedly bashing numeric keys, and navigating options was difficult2024-11-04
- Hard to figure out how to make a call; accidentally activates camera and can't return to phone mode2021-08-22
- Texting on a numeric keypad is too slow to hold real conversations2020-01-04
- Texting is tedious on the feature phone's interface2019-07-30
- Newer feature phones are so much worse they are basically unusable2018-02-28
- Online button placed where users hit it accidentally, triggering costly WAP charges2017-09-07
- Phone can open a browser but web browsing is practically unusable2011-08-23