analogue handset

hugovk commented on the word analogue handset

analogue handset, n. a retronym for a non-smart digital phone, a dumbphone, a feature phone

The Independent, 12 January 2016:

The actor Eddie Redmayne ditched his smartphone in favour of an analogue handset to help him live “in the moment”, he has revealed.

The Guardian, 17 January 2016:

In an instant, I processed my shock into potential content provision, opining internally that Eddie Redmayne’s analogue handset represented, to me, almost the last link to a better time: a time before the stress of instant communication, the death of casual contemplation and the inevitable dumbing-down caused by an oceanic volume of immediate information: train times, species of woodlouse, the original line-up of BMX Bandits.

January 6, 2017