{"id":14259,"date":"2024-04-27T13:37:17","date_gmt":"2024-04-27T11:37:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/04\/27\/the-boring-phone-stressed-out-gen-z-ditch-smartphones-for-dumbphones\/"},"modified":"2024-04-27T13:37:17","modified_gmt":"2024-04-27T11:37:17","slug":"the-boring-phone-stressed-out-gen-z-ditch-smartphones-for-dumbphones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/04\/27\/the-boring-phone-stressed-out-gen-z-ditch-smartphones-for-dumbphones\/","title":{"rendered":"The \u2018boring phone\u2019: stressed-out gen Z ditch smartphones for dumbphones"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The feature-free phone, launched at Milan design week, is the latest device to tap into young people\u2019s concerns about attention-harvesting and data privacy<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s almost enough to make you stop doomscrolling: dull devices are now cool.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/society\/2024\/apr\/27\/the-boring-phone-stressed-out-gen-z-ditch-smartphones-for-dumbphones\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/1281ece71d51d73684eb5e9945e828bcab27a0d7\/0_67_5472_3283\/master\/5472.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=22a0b52d23a686a82bea043de307710d\" title=\"The \u2018boring phone\u2019: 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\u2019s concerns about attention-harvesting and data privacy<br \/>\nIt\u2019s almost enough to make you stop doomscrolling: dull devices are now cool.<br \/>\nThe 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&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The feature-free phone, launched at Milan design week, is the latest device to tap into young people\u2019s concerns about attention-harvesting and data privacy It\u2019s 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 &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/04\/27\/the-boring-phone-stressed-out-gen-z-ditch-smartphones-for-dumbphones\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The \u2018boring phone\u2019: stressed-out gen Z ditch smartphones for dumbphones<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":14260,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14259"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14259"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14259\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}