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by nabla9 1610 days ago
Feature phone is the correct name.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feature_phone

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No way, feature phones don't run stuff like WhatsApp and YouTube. A typical example is Motorola RAZR (2004 version). The author has a smartphone with a numpad instead of a touchscreen.
It's the blog's author that calls these dumb phones. Just trying to keep with the original post terminology.