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So you bought an iPhone instead of the old ones, to have the additional features that it provides, and then you don't use it, and call it an accomplishment. That is non sense.
Why doesn't this guy (or anyone else like him) get a non-smartphone. I have a BlackBerry10 device and rarely use apps. Partly because the platform was missing many big name apps, but mostly because I don't want or need such things. I really don't understand why this guy has an iPhone.
As another commenter said, look at the apps he has Google Maps, Uber, Rdio etc... The only thing I'd be completely lost without would be Google Maps, but I had that on S60.
Now there was a time in the distant past where we didn't have smartphones for directions. People used maps. Here in Barcelona, every bus stop has a big map of the whole city on it.
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Richard Stallman, as usual, was quite ahead of the curve on this topic when he noted that he didn't carry a cell phone of any kind because of the privacy considerations associated with logging your location, accurately with triangulation, against cell towers. The instant you start using a cell phone consistently, you've effectively handed over a log of your location history to whoever can convince the sysadmin in you…
Quite and absolutely. The man has an outstanding record for predictions. I wish he weren't so good.
You know what would make my life really distraction-free? Ban Hacker News on every device I have access to for a prolonged period :)
I haven't found HN to be a particularly bad offender. The front page doesn't change quickly enough to require excessive attention.
It also doesn't help that this time can be labelled as "productive" in my mind (as opposed to Facebook etc), when in reality there are more productive things to be doing in these moments.
I have a now 4 year old iPhone 4. It is incredibly slow, crippled by ios 7.1, so slow that Facebook is useless and I only use safari when I really need to look up something. I call it my Comm, because that is what I use it for, communication. iMessages, Whatsapp, FB messenger, hangouts all work relatively well. My iPhone is essential distraction free because it is too slow to distract me, ill look up while waiting, t…
How is your battery? I figure at four years it's got to be pretty bad. I have an old iPhone 5 and my biggest blocker is the fact that the battery can only last a few hours at most with minimal usage, which makes it an absolutely pain to travel as one is away from charger most of the time. In fact, the only reason why I'd upgrade to a new phone is because I can't stand having it die so easily.
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How is your battery? I figure at four years it's got to be pretty bad. I have an old iPhone 5 and my biggest blocker is the fact that the battery can only last a few hours at most with minimal usage, which makes it an absolutely pain to travel as one is away from charger most of the time. In fact, the only reason why I'd upgrade to a new phone is because I can't stand having it die so easily.
Many old iPhone 5 batteries are covered under a no cost replacement. Check your serial number here. https://ssl.apple.com/support/iphone5-battery/ Both mine and my daughter's were covered. Our run time had suffered and our battery gauges had become mostly insane.
As someone who owns a dumb flip phone, it's funny to read someone's enthusiastic account of their life-changing experience of... living exactly the way I do. But on the other hand, I get it. This sort of thing (facebook, hacker news, freaking imgur ) sucks up so much of my time (albeit on the desktop), and for what? Occasional interesting tidbits, and frequent annoyance and frustration? Some of it is straight-up bad…
Smartphones, like iPhone, are only 7 years old. It will take more years for people to learn how to live with it. Smartphones have already been coined "the new cigarette", used by stressed out people to calm down on café's and public places. In the future we'll probably have professional help for people who want to quit fiddling with their phone all the time.
I have a brilliant (!) suggestion - don't bother uninstalling anything. Just don't enable data or wifi in the phone!
i rarely ever check mail on my phone unless i really need it (which is like 10 times a year). Same for the rest.
What I use most of the time: - texting (specially for meeting/bar/etc) - maps (directions, traffic...) - booking (plane/train/etc while on the go) - making pictures - listening to music (sometimes)
yeah.. thats it. I use the other apps less than once a month...
I do use email, web, etc on the laptop tho (which i do not carry with me unless its work hours)
I find it a lot better this way, and in fact, past the initial experience of having a smartphone some years ago, i never really used it any other way.
i dont get the addiction ppl get with the phone games (they're fucking terrible) and non-stop checking notifications (its horrible)
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Any phone's location can still be tracked by cell tower. From whom are you trying to get privacy?
If the phone's off, that's going to be less useful. And the tower-tracking location granularity's much lower than GPS Though I don't know what the reporting intervals are. Some smartphones (or their apps) were reporting location data every 10 seconds , with accuracy measured within a few feet. Can't find that article at the moment, though another reports that location information is logged "at least several times an…
I had a friend who ran off the side of a mountain in Colorado. He called 911, but had no idea where he was (he was from the Midwest). Within about 40 minutes, they had triangulated his location and had a tow truck and emergency vehicles routed to get him out.
Without his phone and the ability to locate him, he was pretty sure he wouldn't have made.