[nlavezzo]

You can always just use an iPhone and turn on screen time, with tons of restrictions. You can "remove" the browser, adding apps, of course any app you want (including core ones like messaging), and keep a few useful ones like Google Maps, etc. Then have your wife or someone else set the passcode on it and bam, you have a "dumb" smart phone. If you ever need full functionality for something like a trip abroad, etc., you can have them unlock it. I do this with my wife sometimes because I don't like all the distractions, or even the distraction of resisting the urge to be distracted. Works great.

[mydriasis]

Yes! I can. But I'd rather have a phone that's dogshit from the start if I'm honest.

Plus the Nokia is like $70, haha.

[memling]

I've bought several of these phones. My texting habits are relatively minimal, but I'm apparently pretty hard on T9-capable keyboards.

I bought a Sonim XP3 recently that is chunky, terrible for web browsing, and ideal for texting. One of its predecessors was featured on "Will it Blend?"[1] and only mostly blended (try that with an iPhone).

I've not destroyed anything on this phone, whereas the keyboards on my two Nokias died in less than a month.

[1]: https://piped.mha.fi/watch?v=Wt1fNKhQdKk

[mcphage]

I like the idea of a dogshit phone, but I'd be really unhappy to lose having a good camera.