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KaiOS, or what even is a smartphone anymore?

by Mike Pumphrey · Jun 27, 2019

Everyone knows the two top mobile operating systems. It’s Apple’s iOS, and Google’s Android.

But what about the third mobile operating system. What is that?

The answer might surprise you: KaiOS.

It might be far behind the iPhone and Android, but it’s on 80 million phones and counting, which is no small number.

And get this: it’s not billed as a smartphone platform!

Are we in wacky land or what?

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In praise of dumbphones

by Mike Pumphrey · Dec 20, 2018

Note: This post originally appeared on Empathic Finance (previously known as Unlikely Radical), a partner site to The Smartphone Free Life. It was first published on July 15, 2013.

I am one of the only people I know who doesn’t have a smartphone.

I’m not bragging about this. I just have decided that at this point, it’s not something I want in my life. I’m not suggesting you do the same, so please, no need to get defensive.

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