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Motorola’s Dumb Phone

This is the phone I’ve been waiting for. No camera, no color screen, no internet, no frills! This is just a phone folks, nothing more. Consumers today are so caught up by the amount of features electronics offer no matter that more features = more bugs. The cool thing about this phone is that it has an E-Ink display instead of an LCD. An E-Ink display only uses power when the screen needs to be updated. An LCD is constantly using power because it needs to be backlit in order for you to read it. The target audience is developing countries like India because the phone is cheap and can be charged via riding a bike. It probably won’t be sold in the US since there is no market for a simple phone that works…oh well, someday.