Dumber phone
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Dumber phone
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#2I'm not sure if I want a totally dumb phone, but I do want one that isn't subverted by my carrier, Google or Apple.
We need a solid open baseband that runs at 3G speeds at the very least.
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#3I think it may be healthy to reset dopamine by doing this occasionally for a week or so at a time, but I like the cheap dopamine and connectedness of my social media connections.
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#4Way ahead of you here. I've upgraded to the original Nokia 3310 years ago, and it does the trick.
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#5As somebody who had an always on internet connected PDA back it times when most PDAs were black and white, I can say it will eventually pass. The sense of novelty will vanish, and the thing will not be as interesting when an average person first see it.
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#6I'm not sure if I want a totally dumb phone, but I do want one that isn't subverted by my carrier, Google or Apple. We need a solid open baseband that runs at 3G speeds at the very least.
Did you read the article? It's not about buying a flip phone, it's about turning your smartphone into a slightly dumber phone, to alleviate your brain's addiction to it.
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#7This is one of the advantages of using a Windows Phone these days: fewer apps to tempt me into letting distractions creep onto my phone :-)
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#8Another more extreme step I've heard others take is to put their device in one of those locking cookie jars:
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#9Personally, I would love a flip phone with a removable battery and a physical button on the side to turn WiFi hotspot functionality on/off -- with OFF being the default. Having a phone that you only need to charge once a week is a great feature!
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#10I've been implementing a similar regime on my smart phone for the last few months. After cracking a previous phone and resorting to a brick phone, I remembered how much I'd enjoyed the time I used to have with out a screen, either to read or just think.
I was eventually swayed back onto a smart phone after moving to a new city (for google maps) and now use that almost solely along with music, and occasionally chrome for fact-finding.
Would definitely recommend giving it a couple of months trial!