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Punkt MP01 https://www.punkt.ch/en/products/mp01-mobile-phone/ Punkt MP02 https://www.punkt.ch/en/products/mp02-4g-mobile-phone/ Light Phone https://www.thelightphone.com Light Phone 2 https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/light-phone-2 Nokia 3310 https://www.nokia.com/phones/en_int/nokia-3310
But I'm not really sure what's out there now to compare it to. I never used anything else. This one deals with calls and texts fairly well and I charge it about twice a week with a low amount of texting and very few calls. I don't use it for anything else.
I also dropped it once from chest height and nothing bad came from it. It's built like a tank.
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Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure... than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat. Read more at: https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/theodore_roosevelt_103499
I was tempted to reply with a link to the wiki article for survivorship bias, but that would come across snarkier than I intend. Seriously though, this is a bit like taking advice on financial risk-taking from a startup billionaire.
Keeping with the analogy of hurdles. It's like, successful startup is a 20 ft wall. Deciding to workout 3x a week is a 3ft hurdle. Getting a fitbit and targeting more walking is like a 2ft hurdle (my scales not everyone's). Getting over loneliness due to not having a cell phone is a 5 ft hurdle. It'd require getting out of the house a lot more and that anxiety can be crippling. If that was a goal of mine I'd train for it just like a marathon. You don't start by running the whole thing in the first week, you start with increasingly large goals.
I totally agree that blindly saying adversity is good, is a crazy over simplification. I also think we (if you are in top 60% of tax brackets just to really bound that statement) have it exceptionally easy in the USA and that we are all capable of much more than we think we are.
Not everyone can do a startup, but many of us have lost the concept of setting a goal and pushing ourselves (myself included).
Thanks for calling me out. A quote from T. R. could be seen as snarky as well. This really is a personal thing. I should have really put a caveat that this applies to me. Just me. I think more people would benefit from the mentality, but I also don't believe in a society that pushes artificial adversity to "make people better" that'd be bad.
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They have quite a few options at https://www.verizonwireless.com/basic-phones/ I have used the Exalt and the Kyocera DuraXV. Both are great phones and even allow you to create hot spots with them.
Those are all flip phones though. I want something in the old candy bar style. I guess technically there is that Sonim phone, but it's ugly as sin.
Punkt MP01 https://www.punkt.ch/en/products/mp01-mobile-phone/ Punkt MP02 https://www.punkt.ch/en/products/mp02-4g-mobile-phone/ Light Phone https://www.thelightphone.com Light Phone 2 https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/light-phone-2 Nokia 3310 https://www.nokia.com/phones/en_int/nokia-3310
I considered going retro and getting a Nokia 3310, but 2G only was the show stopper.
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Loneliness is the same way. It can give people determination to come out of their shell, work up the courage to ask someone out, etc.
I think you are mixing up loneliness and shyness. Loneliness can cause shyness and the other way around, but they are not the same thing. Loneliness can be forced on you. I personally moved and since some girls at the new school decided (in the locker room) that I was lesbian, folks stopped talking to me. I found a very small group of friends the next year at high school. These girls were half correct in their assess…
One claim made was that poverty and loneliness are two of the most difficult scarcity traps to be in. Even more so than hunger (especially in the developed world). Because poverty and loneliness push you into behaviors that only perpetuate more poverty and loneliness. You can see this with the rise of toxic misogynistic groups on the Internet, and I personally see this with my more awkward, lonely friends and acquaintances who put off new company with desperate, weird, or standoffish behavior.
My favorites have been:
- Fidget Spinner Phone [0] | It's a fidget spinner and basically a classic Nokia clone with video, mp3, and bluetooth. It is comfy to carry in the pocket, has dual SIMs and SD card storage. Also an FM radio (that doesn't use hadphones as an antenna). The best part is that is has "HORSE RACE LIGHTS" that run to the beat so you can fidget spin to the radio.
- Super Tiny Phone [2] | Can be a bluetooth earpiece, is super tiny, and has a voice changer option that is just hilarious. Call with autotune! Also it's clearly made for crime, but I like to call my mom as a robot.
- Pen Phone [3] | It's a pen!
[0] https://www.banggood.com/Servo-S08-1-3-300mAh-Christmas-Gift...
[1] https://www.banggood.com/V2-0_66-OLED-260mAh-Smallest-Blueto...
[2] https://www.banggood.com/SERVO-K07-0_96inch-300mAh-bluetooth...
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Loneliness is the same way. It can give people determination to come out of their shell, work up the courage to ask someone out, etc.
I think you are mixing up loneliness and shyness. Loneliness can cause shyness and the other way around, but they are not the same thing. Loneliness can be forced on you. I personally moved and since some girls at the new school decided (in the locker room) that I was lesbian, folks stopped talking to me. I found a very small group of friends the next year at high school. These girls were half correct in their assess…
Loneliness is curable, but requires effort.
You might consider a WiPhone a few months from now once we're shipping them: (project preview link) https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/2103809433/338898127?re... It's intended to be hackable. The base phone is pure WiFi, but there will probably be an LTE add-on.
I'd be hugely interested in this phone if only it had some form of cell connectivity; even 2G would suffice for my purposes. While we wait for cheaper 4G modems, why not a pluggable SIM800 (cost: a few bucks) module for the rest of us?
So far it looks like most people want 4G, even though it's quite expensive to add. I think too many marketing dollars have been spent convincing consumers that's what they need, so we may end up doing 4G before others. But you're right, 2G (or 3G) would both be cheaper and probably all you need for a dumb phone.
The nice thing, though, is unlike most phones it should be pretty easy for anyone with electronics skills to make a daughterboard that expands the phone hardware capabilities.