
I haven’t used one exclusively for a long time, but dumbphones do still exist today. You’ve got retro-looking flip phones like the TCL Go Flip that remind me strikingly of my first phone, and then there are keyboard phones like the $499 Clicks Communicator that try to convince you they're more of a companion to your smartphone.
They’re all good ways to untether yourself from the distractions of today's best phones, but the best dumbphone isn’t one I need to buy — it’s already something I have wrapped around my wrist. I’ve had my Apple Watch Series 9 for a good while now and recently used it exclusively as a dumb phone to better free myself from the digital noise of my primary device.