I've been trying to wean myself off phones completely since the demise of the SE, but life in Moscow without a phone is basically impossible (taxis, deliveries, electric scooters, bikes etc. all become pretty much unavailable). As a compromise I've been using the Palm Phone[0] for a while now (before that the Unihertz Atom, which is quite the chonker, albeit with a small screen). It's the size of a credit card and ha…
If you don't care about streaming or bluetooth... I use an iPod nano 2nd gen. It could just be my imagination, but I feel like the audio quality is better than anything more 'modern'.
What’s more, I can upload/download music with my Apple iPod over WiFi.
iPod, extremely light and long playing.
And none of that Bluetooth cutout while traversing through many AirPods zones.