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The ‘boring phone’: stressed-out gen Z ditch smartphones for dumbphones
The feature-free phone, launched at Milan design week, is the latest device to tap into young people’s concerns about attention-harvesting and data privacyIt’s almost enough to make you stop doomscrolling: dull devices are now cool.The Boring Phone is a new, featureless flip phone that is feeding the growing appetites of younger people who want to bin their smartphones in favour of a dumbphone. Continue reading
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Why Germany ditched nuclear before coal—and why it won’t go back
The past year has seen record renewable power production nationwide.
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HMD ditches Nokia with new Pulse repairable smartphone range
HMD has stepped out from the Nokia shadow and announced a new trio of affordable, repairable phones under its own Pulse branding. The HMD Pulse Pro, Pulse Plus and Pulse are notable for a couple of key reasons. For one thing, they're the first phones to carry the HMD branding. This Finnish manufacturer has, for a number of years now, been most notable for licensing out the Nokia name. If you've ever used a Nokia-branded Android phone, you've actually been using an HMD product. As tipped...