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by cylde_frog 1773 days ago
I made the switch a couple months ago and its harder than you think. There is a lot of convenience you take for granted in the smartphone age.
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Do you remember a time when you had to make a plan with a friend to meet at a specific place at a specific time and if one of you wasn't there or had a last minute problem there was probably no way to contact the other person? That was annoying, true.

I also refused to get a mobile phone for years, much to the chagrin of my girlfriend(s). It meant I used to come home to an answering machine full of messages and feel much more loved than I ever have with the immediate drip feed of messages I get now.

I wonder, what will I really miss that a book and a dumbphone won't be able to replace in my life? Perhaps the maps.

What did you switch to?
A nokia dumbphone
With at least a billion baseband exploits. Smartphones are bad, but switching back to feature phones is arguably worse in these regards.