Tough cookies, learn to install updates yourself or buy a dumbphone.

Why not save many times that and just opt for a giveaway dumbphone with no data plan then?

To keep this business alive, it must make its dumbphone smarter without introducing expensive hardware.

It's the dumbphone and "low-quality" Android phones all over again.

In all seriousness I'm seriously thinking of going back to a dumbphone in Spring.

And if I can't get the functionality then I will go back to a dumbphone.

In the dumbphone world, a couple of integrated games-Snake, maybe Solitaire-is standard.

Nokia has been degraded to the ranks of dumbphone brand, not smartphone.

I will stick with a dumbphone and a PMP.

In order to text message, you had to use a virtual numpad, pounding out messages the same way you would do on a dumbphone.

Or buy a dumbphone.

Even my wife spends more internet time on her phone than her PC - and she's on a dumbphone!

People forget how every carrier except AT&T turned down the iPhone because they couldn't put their proprietary dumbphone restrictions onto Apple's device.

In the dumbphone days they only had to update a phone maybe once or twice with a small bugfix patch, and they did that at a glacial pace.

If Verizon charges a more reasonable monthly data fee for the device, I can see it filling the gap between texting dumbphone and iPhone/other "Superphones".

I've currently got a dumbphone, an LG Chocolate 2, which is less and less willing to send text messages properly, and even lost one of the keys the other day after the original glue on the back came loose.

It's like trying to use a feature phone five years ago.

Its a full featured phone with a host of features.

That's the first decline in feature phone sales since the third quarter of 2009.

Solo only released a total of four feature phones throughout that year.

That's one reason (the other being cost) that I'm sticking with a feature phone for my personal mobile.

Only for the feature phones they used to sell stand alone navigation/etc services to.

Unlimited mobile Internet access is only available on feature phones.

Because technology changes rapidly, what was a smartphone ten years ago may be considered only a feature phone today.

Growth has been slower than expected, perhaps due to a 4 percent drop in feature phone shipments.

The drop in feature phone sales probably hit longtime market leader Nokia the most.

What could sell feature phones is coolness, and ease of use.

Tango advertisements have sometimes featured phone numbers for viewers to call.

His approach was based on product demonstrations and a prominently featured phone number for orders.

Android is going to push that openness down into the "feature phone" market.

It can either use standard telephones or proprietary feature phones.

Windows Live also provides customised services specifically created for feature phones.

This feels more like a feature phone for trendy people than a smartphone.

Remember, feature phone users don't surf much, but on a worldwide scale there are billions of them.

Just in case anyone reading this is confused, "feature phone" means it makes calls, sends texts, and maybe has a camera.

Feature phones include a music player and a multimegapixel camera with flash.

Some feature phone and Android plans already include long distance for some countries.

More likely is that it will become the OS for future "feature phones".

The phone was described as not being a full feature phone but being small and light weight.

There are currently three voice plans for use on feature phones offered by Public Mobile.