The only thing that made me get rid of my dumbphone is that it wasn't going to work after 3G was shut down. I may switch back to one again...
The #Dumbphone Boom Is Real
A burgeoning cottage industry caters to beleaguered #smartphone users desperate to escape their screens.
By Kyle Chayka
April 10, 2024
"Will Stults spent too much time on his iPhone, doom-scrolling the site formerly known as Twitter and tweeting angrily at Elon Musk as if the billionaire would actually notice. Stults’s partner, Daisy Krigbaum, was addicted to Pinterest and YouTube, bingeing videos on her iPhone before going to sleep. Two years ago, they both tried Apple’s Screen Time restriction tool and found it too easy to disable, so the pair decided to trade out their iPhones for more low-tech devices. They’d heard about so-called dumbphones, which lacked the kinds of bells and whistles—a high-resolution screen, an app store, a video camera—that made smartphones so addictive. But they found the process of acquiring one hard to navigate.
"'The information on it was kind of disparate and hard to get to. A lot of people who know the most about dumbphones spend the least time online,' Krigbaum said. A certain irony presented itself: figuring out a way to be less online required aggressive online digging."
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/infinite-scroll/the-dumbphone-boom-is-real?utm_source=pocket-newtab-en-us
#SmartphoneAddiction #ScreenAddiction #DumbingUsDown
