[desmond373]

I feel like i would like a phone with the sim and wifi module ripped out. Perhaps just bluetooth so my files can get auto transfered when i get home. Phones are great note takers and recorders but the social media and communication aspects can be problematic.

[hammock]

>I feel like i would like a phone…but the communication aspects can be problematic.

That’s not a phone then. It’s a computer (?)

[BeetleB]

Exactly. Where can I get a device that I can use away from home, fits in my pocket, and does not receive calls/texts? I value the camera, the GPS, and occasionally the data (not OP).

[klardotsh]

Minus the camera thing, I'd almost say a PinePhone-esque device is the fit, given the dodgy telecoms stack (which isn't a dealbreaker to you). Otherwise, though, sounds like a phone in permanent airplane mode (or at least, without a SIM inserted) is the move for you.

[AltruisticGapHN]

This used to be the iPod touch.

iPhone 12 mini is my first smartphone late 2023. I have used iPads for ten years. Love how the iPad freed me from sitting at the PC.

Now similarly I wonder if I’ll ever buy iPad again and just buy a good smartphone. Can go airplane mode anyway if I want to.

iPhone is kinda like a iPad mini with the SIM card stuff.

The convergence is inevitable, Apple Pay is great. My banking app is easier to use on phone than on PC WTF phone doesn’t require me to swipe card in some physical card trader, just type in a short code.

It only makes sense someday the phone will be like your ID for everything.

IMHO the core unease here is not really the device but just how apps are built, especially social media, which itself is symptomatic of a distorted way of life (cf koyaanisqatsi)

[Hackbraten]

The Librem 5 may be a good fit for you. It has switches on the side that physically cut off power to the modem or WiFi whenever you want.

[15457345234]

Get a phone and a data-only SIM card? Plenty of options available.

[mattl]

iPod Touch if you can still find one?

[solresol]

Like a Boox Palma? That doesn't have the SIM ripped out, it's a phone-sized device that isn't a phone.

It has wifi though, but you can't watch videos or scroll fast because of the e-ink screen.

[asystole]

Then don't install those apps? I really don't understand the problem. Smartphones only have the apps we install on them.

[giancarlostoro]

Get a tape recorder and the Remarkable or whatever that ink tablet is, and a dumb flip phone? Or the Nokia brick remake.