It’s 2025 and I just deployed a full app to a feature phone that has no touchscreen.

It worked on the first try.

And it runs TikTok, Instagram, Facebook and now my own app.

Let’s talk about Cloud Phone.

What is Cloud Phone?

Cloud Phone is a feature phone platform powered by CloudMosa’s remote rendering engine: your app rendered in the cloud, streamed to a $20 phone that only has a key pad including arrows,and OK.

It runs full HTML5, CSS, JS.

• No paid developer account.
• No proprietary SDK or language.
• No CPU heavy build system.

Just good old HTML, CSS and JS. You can also use React, Svelte and Vue.

As you build a regular web application.

My Use Case

I built an app called Color Stylist that:

• Let users pick a base color
• Shows matching combos using HSL logic (contrast, split, triadic)
• Doesn’t need a touchscreen or pointer

Stack:

• Vanilla HTML, CSS, JS
• No frameworks
• No dependencies
• Optimized for QVGA (240×320)
• Hosted on GitHub Pages

Dev flow

Here’s the entire dev flow:

1. I created a web app, like a regular web app
2. Added arrow key handling:

document.addEventListener("keydown", (e) => {
  if (e.key === "ArrowRight") goToNextColor();
  if (e.key === "ArrowLeft") goToPrevColor();
});

3. Deployed it on GitHub Pages
4. Registered it at developer.cloudfone.com
5. Added my phone’s IMEI
6. Enabled Developer Mode

Done.

I didn’t install anything. Didn’t write a manifest. Didn’t deal with WebView bugs.

Why This Matters

Cloud Phone gives developers the power to ship real tools to real devices that are still actively used across the globe.
And it respects your time.

👋 Final Thoughts

This isn’t nostalgia, it’s practicality at scale.

If you want to scale your web app on a real web scale, not just for the hype,then you should absolutely build for Cloud Phone.

Full dev docs → developer.cloudfone.com