People Without Smartphones

This cluster discusses people who lack smartphones or access to them, often highlighting groups like the poor, homeless, children, or those by choice, and questioning tech assumptions requiring smartphone ownership.

➡️ Stable 0.5x Politics & Society
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Sample Comments

erfgh Mar 16, 2021 View on HN

Not all people have or want smartphones.

niij Oct 26, 2021 View on HN

Not everyone has access to a smartphone at all times.

glomph May 21, 2013 View on HN

Because not everyone has a smartphone?

rexgallorum2 Jan 14, 2019 View on HN

What if they don't have smartphones?

vkou Nov 21, 2023 View on HN

What about people who don't have a smartphone?

monsieur_ Mar 22, 2021 View on HN

What if someone doesn't own a smartphone??

parineum Jul 1, 2025 View on HN

The alternative is not having a smart phone.

rcstank May 2, 2023 View on HN

Not too ironic considering many are too young to have phones, or too poor to have them.

general8bitso Jan 10, 2019 View on HN

Homeless people don’t have smartphones?

duxup Jul 30, 2020 View on HN

Do people maybe see phones and related tech / services as sort of essential?