Isn't this just a Y2K Nokia?
New phone can make calls and send texts, but it cannot access social media
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Re: New phone can make calls and send texts, but it cannot access social media
#112Earlier quoted context omitted.
But dumb phones don't toggle. If you want those apps to never be on your phone, you don't have to mess with a bunch of sliders to switch modes.
The toggle is whether you leave the house with your dumbphone or your smartphone. I don't think there's a market at all for people who only want a dumbphone as their primary phone. Then you're just building a bougie feature phone as many other commenters have said.
Paying an extra $20 a month for a second line is even more wasteful than $3-400 for a "bougie feature phone".
And if you want a pretty fast toggle, lots of phones can support multiple user accounts.
Re: New phone can make calls and send texts, but it cannot access social media
#113New? Can't you buy this for $80 at any CVS or Walgreens? "Companies including Nokia Corp. still manufacture “feature phones,” devices that look, feel and operate like the cellphones of the ’00s. But most feature phones still follow a design philosophy of abundance, cramming all the features they can into a limited operating system, said Petter Neby..." Bullshit. They can't get on the Internet, that's what matters. Yo…
My elderly mother got a feature phone and couldn't figure out how to use it. It was such a complicated muddle of changing on-screen menus and icons that you activated with mystery buttons on the keypad. I had to first play around with it myself to learn how to make a call, then teach her. Somehow she activated the camera instead and couldn't get back to normal phone mode on her own. These things are pointless toxic waste. All those stupid features force you to give them your attention every time you want to call someone or even answer the damn phone. This is a dumb-phone that cost as much as a low-end smartphone so anyone buying it would be doing so because they don't want all those aggravating complications. I'm sick of machines constantly nagging for my attention. Shut up and get out of the way. I own you, not the other way round!
Anyway, excuse me getting a bit carried away there :P Touched a nerve.
Re: New phone can make calls and send texts, but it cannot access social media
#114The perfect phone, to me: * Wifi only * GPS * Square e-ink touchscreen, 3 inches across * QWERTY hardware keyboard * Thin foldable a la razor * Latest LTE tech worldwide bands for future proof network compatibility * Micro SDXC slot * USB-C with host and audio capabilities * Removable battery * De-googlized AOSP with F-Droid * Some good hardware hi-def DAC * 3.5mm audio out * Decent camera for photos, don't care abou…
Why would you need LTE on a wifi only phone?
Re: New phone can make calls and send texts, but it cannot access social media
#115I'm now used to not looking at the phone most of the time. I do not have any social media apps, such as Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, or anything for a very, very long time. I'm not too keen on phone calls either. I look at text messages only when I'm expecting something.
However, I need the phone-smartness of Maps, Calendar, Health monitoring, and mostly photo/videography. It is impressive with the camera capabilities of phones these days.
A phone with just phone calls and text messaging will be highly irritating.
Here is a glimpse into how my phone home-screen has evolved - https://oinam.fyi/brajeshwar/phone-home-screen/
Re: New phone can make calls and send texts, but it cannot access social media
#116How about an Android OS stripped from everything that's not needed?
To be used with older devices. Privacy focused with an intentional black and white display. Plenty of devices laying around. The stripped features should also improve the battery life as well.
For IM I really loved BitlBee, maybe the mandatory IM could be within terminal. Notifications could be highly customized and the ux would be non-candy one.
Re: New phone can make calls and send texts, but it cannot access social media
#117Earlier quoted context omitted.
Another thing I've started doing that works for me is removing a page from the history on my browser. It's easy to mindlessly browse something like reddit when I can just type 'r' and hit enter because the browser autocompletes sites in my history, but even the 1 second it takes to type out 'reddit.com' gives my brain time to realize there's nothing in particular I wanted to look at, and I was just going there out of…
I have the same problem! I'd really like to turn off autocomplete completely to resolve it, but Chrome doesn't allow that. :( Remembering to manually remove the site from my history every time isn't gonna happen.
On mobile or desktop?
If you’re on desktop just go to settings and search for “autocomplete” - it might be under Google sync settings or advanced -> privacy settings for “use prediction service to help complete searches and urls”
If I’m wrong, it’s only because I’m using MS Edge and this was a question it asked during setup :)
Re: New phone can make calls and send texts, but it cannot access social media
#118Re: New phone can make calls and send texts, but it cannot access social media
#119Earlier quoted context omitted.
The toggle is whether you leave the house with your dumbphone or your smartphone. I don't think there's a market at all for people who only want a dumbphone as their primary phone. Then you're just building a bougie feature phone as many other commenters have said.
Paying an extra $20 a month for a second line is even more wasteful than $3-400 for a "bougie feature phone". And if you want a pretty fast toggle, lots of phones can support multiple user accounts.
You can sim swap for free.
I'm gonna try a second profile on Android for a few weeks. Could give more insight on whether dumbphones need to be hardware, or if their final form is software. One difference already, you can change your mind while out and about by swapping back to the full profile. So willpower is still needed.
Re: New phone can make calls and send texts, but it cannot access social media
#120Earlier quoted context omitted.
Paying an extra $20 a month for a second line is even more wasteful than $3-400 for a "bougie feature phone". And if you want a pretty fast toggle, lots of phones can support multiple user accounts.
You can sim swap for free. I'm gonna try a second profile on Android for a few weeks. Could give more insight on whether dumbphones need to be hardware, or if their final form is software. One difference already, you can change your mind while out and about by swapping back to the full profile. So willpower is still needed.
Sim swapping doesn't sound more convenient than several sliders to me.
> One difference already, you can change your mind while out and about by swapping back to the full profile.
Not if you have a moderate password you leave at home.