The new Samsung Galaxy phone can't connect to the internet. - Sensationalist Headlines

The Samsung Galaxy J2 Pro can't connect to the internet Samsung's latest Galaxy phone, the Galaxy J2 Pro, lacks one skill you'd expect any smartphone to be able to do: connect to the internet. That's right. No 3G, no LTE, no Wi-Fi, no nothing. Samsung says the phone is intended for students and senior citizens as a way for them to make calls and use apps, minus the distractions or confusions of going online.So what can the Galaxy 2 Pro do? It can make calls, send texts and take pictures.

Oh yes, I'm sure the students will be lining up for this phone.

Id buy one for my shitty kid so they have a method for communication and not a dedicated distraction device.

I feel like my grandma would want this.

185 dollars? Who the fuck thought this was a good idea?

So basically its a smartphone made for the technologically illiterate

Also for people who work, these things are fucking bricks that will never die. I have one and have dropped it, many many MANY times, that if it was a smart phone it'd be cracked to all hell and back. And my battery life lasts a full 5-7 days.

Hampering your kid's social development by buying them a phone that impedes their ability to contact their peers is not a good idea. As for a distraction, teachers just need to crack down more on students fucking about with their phones in class.

Not having mobile access to the internet is not hampering social development. Calling and texting is still a thing with this phone.

who needs internet anyway. the whole point of a phone is to be a phone

Not even when they're the odd one out of the group who doesn't have internet in their phone?

As someone who wasnt allowed to have a Facebook or anything back in the day, I completely disagree.

Having a hpone without basic features will single your kid out as the weirdo.

As someone in the same boat as you, I don't think social media is at all necessary to not being an odd one out. Especially considering they can still call and text.

Maybe teach your kids the value of interaction without devices.

i should have mentioned i posted this on a phone. but it's really not relevant.

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And they'd still be labeled a weirdo and have a stunted social life. Children don't act rationally, they've got to keep up with trends and communicate on the same platforms as the other children in order to be included.

First thought: what's the fucking point of a smartphone-esque device that can't connect to the internet? Second thought: what's the fucking point of making it almost 200 dollars?

You can teach your kid that but good luck teaching all the other kids.

It mentions that you can use apps, but what about apps that are practically and literally online-only? Do those work or not?

I used to have an old flip phone but honestly it just makes you look like a drug dealer.

I forgot to note this, I always get weird looks because of it but at the end of the day I don't fucking care

Get some fucking crystals whilst you're at it and teach them how to be one with Gaia. Society evolves, electronic communication is now paramount to functioning in western society. A few decades ago parents would have been saying this "you don't need it" garbage about mobile phones the size of bricks, about personal residence phones, about typewriters, about learning to write.

Hardly anyone texts these days, even my mum has whatsapp

Your child will be bullied into suicide as he/she has no friends if he/she can only text and call people. You absolutely CANNOT compare modern day childs to your time, which I expect to be around 80s-90s judging from the way you post.

wtf calm down

I mean you're right, but I wish there was some middle ground between social pariah, and unfettered social media access from a young age

Yeah, reading the description, it's pretty obviously a phone for parents to get their kids as a basic way to get in touch if need be. Also, it's worth noting that this phone is only available in Korea and Samsung hasn't given a statement on whether or not it's going to be available elsewhere.

I paid $200 for my LG Tribute 5, and it's not a particularly great/powerful phone, but "powerful enough" I guess you could say. It does seem insane in that context.