Dumb Co dared me to trade my iPhone for a hacked flip phone

When Lydia Peabody saw her friend pull out a flip phone at a party last year, she burst out laughing.

“I was like, ‘Girl, what are you doing with that thing? That has to be a joke!’” Peabody told TechCrunch. But it wasn’t just a prop — her friend was participating in Month Offline, a community challenge in which a small cohort of people exchange their smartphones for flip phones.