Friend of mine bought her first smart phone about a year ago. She just didn’t need any of the functions on a smartphone and was happier with her flip phone: pretty much infinite battery, near indestructible, does communicate just ok.
Only reason she bought a smart phone is to download some group chat clients. Since she broke up with her BF, we additionally had to write her on SMS. So she made it a bit easier for us.
This is just judgemental and stupid. If you are easily distracted not using a smartphone outside business hours is hugely beneficial.
I use a lumia 550, but REALLY I would prefer an old school phone like the w800i, but a good k750/w800/k800 is rare and expensive at this point and pretty likely to fail. (I have 2g here). So the lumia it is.
I mean this depends on your viewpoint. Yes it is my off-hours daily. (I have to have a smartphone when working)
It can:
Call and text Edit: this IS a 4g device, and has support for VoLTE, so it has modern call quality. Most feature phones you can buy suck as phones.
Play a bunch of games
Has a pretty good MP3 player (also can connect to modern bluetooth devices (!!!))
Has a camera of completely reasonable quality
It can display pictures, play videos, view all sorts of documents. (Ebooks .docs, xlsx-es, ppt-s)
Even the maps work (although who knows for how long)
Has microSD XC support
So it basically does what my w800i does, but in a way newer phone. In my view it does everything a modern device does, except for all the doomscrolly bits.
So yeah, if you need a weekend phone, picking up a lumia makes a whole lot of sense in my view.
I only bought a smartphone because I was getting into the HVAC field and I wanted to have access to the Internet to help with diagnostics, if it wasn’t for that job I might still just have an old flip phone lol
NGL if you have a flip phone now, you’re either a contract killer, a drug dealer and or a stage 5 weirdo.
Friend of mine bought her first smart phone about a year ago. She just didn’t need any of the functions on a smartphone and was happier with her flip phone: pretty much infinite battery, near indestructible, does communicate just ok.
Only reason she bought a smart phone is to download some group chat clients. Since she broke up with her BF, we additionally had to write her on SMS. So she made it a bit easier for us.
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This is just judgemental and stupid. If you are easily distracted not using a smartphone outside business hours is hugely beneficial.
I use a lumia 550, but REALLY I would prefer an old school phone like the w800i, but a good k750/w800/k800 is rare and expensive at this point and pretty likely to fail. (I have 2g here). So the lumia it is.
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I mean this depends on your viewpoint. Yes it is my off-hours daily. (I have to have a smartphone when working)
It can:
So it basically does what my w800i does, but in a way newer phone. In my view it does everything a modern device does, except for all the doomscrolly bits.
So yeah, if you need a weekend phone, picking up a lumia makes a whole lot of sense in my view.
W880i ftw https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_Ericsson_W880i
Loved it, really miss small phones.
Or an old person. My grandparents have flip phones lol
Old people are de-facto stage five weirdos.
I’ve seen doctors use them as work phone, like a modern pager.
Yeah and they dispense drugs.
I miss the Nokia 3310’s tramadol dispenser, man
Or you wanna get away from the distractions of modern smartphones.
Because phone bad.
I only bought a smartphone because I was getting into the HVAC field and I wanted to have access to the Internet to help with diagnostics, if it wasn’t for that job I might still just have an old flip phone lol