iPhone surrender

pluton

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One thing I have done is made my smart phone dumb. I found I was spending too much time (by my standards) on useless phone stuff. Instead of going back to a flip phone I disabled safari, and deleted lots of apps so now just have call, text, email, weather, maps, and some other useful outdoors apps.
Good point that bears repeating: Just because your phone has a bunch of different functions doesn't mean you have to use them. I think the text/email communications part of the smartphone is more useful than the talk part, especially since the phone designers completely abandoned proper 'hold to the ear' ergos/haptics 20 years ago. Check out this Qualcomm phone design
from something like 20 years ago:
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DCH109

Adventurer
I have two phones
1 for work and one for personal. I hate both. I realized I use my work phone for TXT, email, phone, Skype and assorted mutli-factor authentication apps. Not much else. Work pays for it and I have to have it per my agreement. So it sits in my bag most of the time

My personal phone get used for multi-factor apps (although these ones I can convert to a TXT message) music, txt, tethering and phone.

I have a flip phone I picked up. and I am in the process of converting everything over to it, Music is the only down factor but I have an old sony xperia that I converted (hid/removed all apps) into a music player. It works fine for that.
I really do not use any other apps and I have an iPad for when i am connected to WIFI or maybe tether in case of an emergency.

For Maps and GPS I have a GPS unit in my vehicle and I can read a map just fine (even use a compass)
I managed 90% of my life without a smartphone (they may be smart, but I feel they are making us dumber) and I am going back to that. I really hate them and I think they are ruining society.
I ban them at dinner and in restaurants with my family but watching others, they sit there on their phones not speaking or conversing at all. It is so sad.
 
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