pluton
Adventurer
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 designOne 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.
from something like 20 years ago: