The dumbphone is sold as a cure for your attention. It is really about who can afford to switch off.

  • A Light Phone III retails for 799 dollars to do almost nothing, and the young want it most: 28 percent of Gen Z adults, per Morning Consult.
  • The "seven hours a day" panic rounds up a figure covering every screen; the phone alone is nearer three and a half to four hours.
  • The minimalist phone is a rich-world niche, while India alone has around 350 million feature-phone users, where a cheap phone is a budget, not a lifestyle.
  • The one strong trial cut screen time from about five hours to under three by removing the option, not willpower, and the gains partly held for those who kept their use down.

Unreachability reads as status. But it is a function of your job, not your phone.