Damien

Buts thats it isnt it? This phones are already basic, and they are cheap! This is not about getting a basic phone.

Its a backlash against phones with a lot of features, and people are paying to be part of that backlash. Its a way for a cynical audience who do not understand technology to take pleasure in rebelling against the mainstream. They do not want a basic phone, they want to claim they are seeing though a industry which markets its product far too much. They want to say "I dont have a camera phone, a phones a phone. I dont fall for those gimmicks".

This is not anything to do with basic phones, its to do with making a lack of understanding about technology into a fashion statement and a status symbol.