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My first three months with a Nokia dumb phone as a daily driver

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Re: My first three months with a Nokia dumb phone as a daily driver

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Post by jamix »

zibzab wrote: post #31

As the author points out, buying a simple a android phone and disabling most of the "smartness" is a much better option. This is what I did and it works surprising well. I still have a decent camera and can use my banking app etc. You could say that I actually have a pretty decent phone I just disciplined myself to use it as little as possible. Edit: the part I am really missing is the compactness of a dumb phone. Ye…

> I just disciplined myself to use it as little as possible.

By now, I have no illusions of being able to discipline myself to that extent. Even with many time-sucking apps uninstalled, there's always a fast browser on the smartphone, and it's a big temptation by itself.

Re: My first three months with a Nokia dumb phone as a daily driver

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Post by jamix »

seb1204 wrote: post #91

I thought it was funny how the author explained typing text messages and also T9, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T9_%28predictive_text Then again I realised that many younger people might had never have heard of them. Time flies.

Yep, that's the reason I spelled it out.

Re: My first three months with a Nokia dumb phone as a daily driver

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Post by kbrannigan »

gnicholas wrote: post #7
zephyr9 wrote: post #3

I switched from an iPhone to Nokia 515 two years ago and vowed never to go back. If I wrote a blog post like this it would probably just be, "Living smartphone-free in the 2020's is like having a superpower, it's utter joy and freedom and and everyone still with a smartphone is a total sucker." Then a couple of weeks ago I felt the social pressure and lack of a good camera so I bought an iPhone 12 mini. It was awful.…

How do you deal with getting around (public transit timing, driving directions/traffic, uber/lyft) without a smartphone?

You see! Back in the days we used a spongy organ between our ears called the brain of something. It's like an organic computer that remember things.

Re: My first three months with a Nokia dumb phone as a daily driver

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Post by jamix »

martopix wrote: post #95

I decided to uninstall all social media apps and even the browser from my phone. It's working great. Sometimes I really need the browser and I temporarily reinstall it. But it's awesome not to have this constant distraction in my pocket, and I can still use whatsapp and listen to podcasts in my commute without any doomscrolling. I also have the wikipedia app.

Alas, last time I checked, iOS doesn't let you uninstall Safari.

Re: My first three months with a Nokia dumb phone as a daily driver

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Post by jamix »

leto_ii wrote: post #88

I too am using a Nokia KaiOS phone (8110 in my case) from time to time. Two flaws of the device that I think would make it hard to use as a primary are the short battery life (far from the fabled 10 day charge of yore) and the short key travel distance that makes it very easy to do multiple presses by mistake. The second thing is particularly annoying when entering your PIN (if you decide to use one).

The advantage of the 2720 Flip is that the keypad is super big, and so are the buttons.

Re: My first three months with a Nokia dumb phone as a daily driver

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Post by jamix »

TwoFerMaggie wrote: post #97
rootsudo wrote: post #49

Knew immediately it was the 2720. It's all around a fantastic phone. The wifi tethering helps also if you carry around a laptop and spotify/whatsapp/google maps built in is also great. Imagine a 3g, pre 4g phone. Basically that's what it is. they're just hard to find for a good reason. :)

Does 2720 have a Spotify built-in? Last time I checked it doesn't. If Spotify is available then it's 10x more appealing to me

As far as I know, there's no Spotify or any other music streaming apps on KaiOS. There are apps for online radio though.

Re: My first three months with a Nokia dumb phone as a daily driver

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Post by jamix »

tester34 wrote: post #50
whoibrar wrote: post #47

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Did you never get a smartphone (in a way most people do) or have you gone back to good ol days ? If former, what other ways you've adapted for essential stuff that need a smart device. If later, do you ever plan on getting a smartphone again ?

I've never bought smartphone because felt no need but the only things that make me really, really strongly consider getting smartphone is some form of Maps - let it be Google or something and ability to send&receive pictures (MMS suck) It's definitely possible to live with dumb phone, but stuff like maps, sending pictures and maybe access to email are sometimes incredibly handy

KaiOS devices have all those features, they are just slow and not as convenient as on a smartphone.

Re: My first three months with a Nokia dumb phone as a daily driver

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Post by GoblinSlayer »

nabla9 wrote: post #76
jabbany wrote: post #13

As others have mentioned, this is not really a dumb phone. Sure it puts some more _friction_ into using modern Internet connected services, but you can still basically do everything a modern phone can do (it has a full modern browser). Heck you even get the modern experience of ads everywhere despite the limited screen and memory (the ads are all modal pages)! In fact, much of the review centers around "smart" featur…

Feature phone is the correct name. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feature_phone

No way, feature phones don't run stuff like WhatsApp and YouTube. A typical example is Motorola RAZR (2004 version). The author has a smartphone with a numpad instead of a touchscreen.

Re: My first three months with a Nokia dumb phone as a daily driver

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Post by paperoli »

epilloud wrote: post #84

My approach on this problem was first to use the dedicated Apple's solution, that is the time management control panel. Spoiler, that never worked as I would turn on and off the constraints based on my needs. I was consistently unsatisfied and endlessly blaming my lack of will. Thus, I really understand the point of view of the author to readily constraint himself with the hardware instead of software knobs easy to t…

What I do us use the time management feature with parental controls, so that I can't disable it. When I make the passcode I write it down and seal it in an envelope. I scramble my memory by saying random numbers so I can forget the passcode (though I probably would not be able to remember it anyway).
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