[ashneo76]

Using a low power phone for everyday use, for a year now. I would say the "convergence" of the android and iOS devices is creating a device that is tuned to suck you into the marketing and advertising of google, apple, etc.

Android and iOS devices are tools and platforms to gather data and use the consumer as a product more than anything else.

Break the slab like form factor and my addictive habits dropped, drastically. Break the app stores, and marketing and I got a lot more time back in my life.

I have a separate hotspot for internet, a tablet for internet access, a phone only simple communication with a 2GB plan and an offline GPS. The convergence of these is an optimized tool to farm the consumers.

[zepto]

> Break the slab like form factor and my addictive habits dropped, drastically.

I think this is an important point and one of the potential problems with the PinePhone - by having the same form factor as Android and iOS devices, it will end up being sucked into copying along with their designs the way the Linux desktop iterates towards MacOS.

[wolverine876]

So what are you using? A feature phone in a 'flip' form factor? I'm wondering what the options are.