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by gcampos 1173 days ago
I tried to go to a dumb phone in the past, but I quickly realized that modern life is way too dependent on a smartphone.

Between using your phone gps to drive around, ordering food, unlocking doors, and check-in out kids from daycare, while not impossible, it would be very inconvenient to not have a smartphone

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When I was using a dumbphone I just took photos of Google Maps on my computer before I headed out, this once resulted in me going in totally the wrong direction for hours, not that I'm complaining since it was an interesting adventure.
It might be a good idea to try the dumb phone to gradually reduce smartphone dependency. After your habits have changed, you can re-evaluate your app usage and only reinstall the essential ones.

Dumb phones are cheap enough to pull this off.