[sneeze-slayer]

Very interesting article. Anecdotally, I know several of my friends who have downgraded their phones from various smartphones to a simple flip phone or even no phone at all.

One of them introduced me to the Light Phone (https://www.thelightphone.com/) which seems like it is in a similar vein, even if it costs more than a 10 year old flip phone.

I wonder if this trend away from the "always-on" status quo will continue in the future.

[scotty79]

For me, the ability to voice call people is the least useful main feature of my phone. If I were to downgrade it would be to the phone that noone can call me on.