| I have a dumb phone, my last smartphone was a blackberry, 7 or 8 years ago. To people who ask me how can I "live" without a smartphone I answer: I have a computer. Everyday I have access to my computer, and since nothing is absolutely urgent I can book train tickets from home, read hacker news from home, etc... I spend several hours per day at home with my laptop so when I am outside I don't need to be online. I don't listen music when outside since I feel more connected to where I am (sea shore, forest, city, etc...) if I don't listen music. I nearly don't need take pictures anymore and when I do I have a camera. I never had an account on social medias and even if I did I would have disable all notifications. No need for a GPS, usually I know where I am going and if I don't I check on a map before and remind the path (exit metro station, first on left, second on right, done), if I get lost I ask to someone, then happen a true connection to a human being. Road trips: paper maps, I traveled alone from San Diego to New-York like that, including reaching a specific address in Chicago and then in New-York with a paper map. And I like the voice of my wife telling me "in 2km we must take the D25 on the right" (names of secondary roads in France starts with D). We have a sailboat so we need gps when we sail and we have a rugged tablet. We also use it at home as a remote control for the DAC with Qobuz and for video calls with family with Signal. A smartphone can makes sense in several occasion, like does out tablet, but I don't feel the need to have one (a kind of mini computer) in my pocket all the time. And since urgent calls can only comes from my wife or from the school (we have a son), when we are together with our son we don't take our dumbphone (nokia 105) with us. I think anyone can buy a dumbphone for 20$ or € and try for a week. |