I replaced my dumbphone last year. I was both surprised at the large size of the selection, and disappointed at the quality of the selection. HMD is still selli

I replaced my dumbphone last year. I was both surprised at the large size of the selection, and disappointed at the quality of the selection. HMD is still selling Nokia-branded S30+ phones, nearly frozen in time, which is good and bad - the main downside is that MMS support is just as limited as it has always been. KaiOS which I once hoped would become a strong competitor is still quite sluggish and most phones running it have all sorts of advertising built into the phone UI. There are some AOSP based phones like Sonim that are pretty decent, but their battery life isn't as good as old dumb phones. Then there are all the hip new minimalist phones (that are the subject of this article), which cost way more than I wanted to spend. The biggest disappointment to me was the lack of 5G. Not because I need the improvements 5G brings on a dumbphone, but because the reason I was replacing my old phone was because all the 3G towers have been shutdown. It would have been nice to have some future-proofing.