Dumbphone. Brick phone. Feature phone. Call them what you want, these devices are taking off, walling off users from the time suck of social media and other apps.

Major phone companies say some Americans want to ditch their smartphones in favor of so-called dumb phones. Some cell phone makers have even come up with new models of the iconic flip and brick phones ...

When Daisy Greenwell discovered that her eight-year-old daughter’s classmates were starting to get smartphones, she was shocked. “I just had a physical reaction that I really, really don’t want that ...