One Month with a Dumbphone, I'm Not Going Back
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The author shares their experience of switching to a dumbphone for a month and finding it beneficial, sparking a discussion on the pros and cons of minimal phone usage.
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- Unlike the author I really like having maps, and also notifications about police, hazards, traffic, etc
- I found the texting completely unusable. It might have been the particular phone but it was so inconvenient as to be almost impossible. And I used T9 regularly when I was younger.
- I do like to be able to read my emails, even if I don’t care about immediately replying
- I found the web browser sufficient for basic stuff
- there’s a whole class of travel related stuff that would make it very hard to just have a dumb phone