[jackfischer]

I tried the Light Phone II but found it too limiting. While they did an admirable job trying to get functionality like maps usable it wasn't practical enough overall. Currently using the Unihertz Titan Pocket with the minimalist phone launcher as my daily driver.

[guidoism]

I actually ordered a Light Phone II a few days ago. I'm not looking to completely replace my iPhone 11 — It works great and I use it all the time and I don't feel like I need to limit myself.

What sent me on a quest for a dumb(er) phone was to be able to leave the house without my main phone because I didn't want to be contacted unless it was an emergency (by either my wife or my kids).

It sucks that the phone has essentially become the main way for all communication — From emergency texts to please remember the milk to hey how is it going to happy birthday to our child from the kids' orthodontist! My wife and I lament about this merging of priorities into phone form all the time. We've been experimenting with basically being in Do Not Disturb mode all the time and yes, people get annoyed when it takes hours to respond, but our lives are better.

What I really want though, it is be just about completely disconnected. So, I'm going to experiment with using a second phone number for when I'm out and about for a few hours. I plan on using a dumb(er) phone with this phone number.

I really wanted to the Punkt or the Mutida but they don't have GPS which to me is a feature I don't think I can live without and they have problems with some of the carriers in the US which I didn't want to have to deal with. I hope we can end up with different feature sets on phones going forward.

[jackfischer]

The emphasis on disconnecting resonates. The Light Phone guys discuss it with AIM as an example of the old state of affairs.

https://medium.com/the-light-phone/we-re-not-anti-technology...

>We didn’t always have a small computer with us at all times. In the days of AIM, “away messages” and “signing off”, there was a specific chair and a specific desk with our family computer, and when you sat in that chair and that desk and listened patiently to the modem sounds connecting, then you could be on the internet. Leaving that chair left the internet behind.

Do Not Disturb helps with external, incoming communication but not with outgoing.

[statquontrarian]

I just got the Unihertz Titan Pocket and I'm having periodic WiFi disconnection issues. Do you see those? I gathered MTKLOG traces for them reproducing the issue but haven't heard back for days. I posted on the Facebook group, nicely, and my post was deleted. I just escalated and forwarded my email with the diagnostics to any unihertz email I could find on the web and we'll see what happens tomorrow, but I'm likely to just return my phone and conclude that Unihertz is not good.

This is a well known issue that has been posted on the Facebook groups and various reddit pages and from what I can tell, it has been around for at least a few years. It looks like it affects the Pocket and the Slim, although unclear if the original Titan is affected. I tried the various workarounds noted by Unihertz on the Facebook forum posts:

1. Moved next to router. The WiFi screen shows excellent -33 RSSI signal value

2. Settings } Apps & Notifications } Advanced } Special app access } Battery optimization } All apps

        2a. System Wi-Fi Resources: Not optimized

        2b. Tethering: Not optimized

        2c. com.android.wifi.resources.overlay: Not optimized

        2d. The app I was streaming video from

3. Settings } Intelligent assistance } App blocker } Off

4. Ensured my router has different SSID for 2.4GHz and SSID for 5GHz networks

5. Connected phone to 2.4GHz network

6. Not running mesh mode

7. Disabled IPv6

8. WiFi authentication set to WPA2

[jackfischer]

I have also had wifi disconnection issues. However, since minimal use is the goal for me anyway I haven't prioritized chasing the issue down.