I recently switched to a Dumb Phone from the smart phone and many asked why? This is my breakdown of the entire experience …
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I recently switched to a Dumb Phone from the smart phone and many asked why? This is my breakdown of the entire experience …
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Website Article: https://christitus.com/switching-to-dumbphone/
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Would you ever give up the smart phone that we are all addicted to?
Watching this on my tablet. What I did to get the "dumb" phone experience was use ADB to uninstall YouTube, Chrome, etc… I don't have Facebook or Twitter so didn't need them anyway. After I got everything I wanted off and had my phone setup with maps and such still working, I removed Play Store also. So now I've got a device that works for me.
Three things I did – to get my life back
1. Get rid of my Television — that was 10 years ago.
2. Drop Mac & Windows systems & run Linux as my main OS.
3. Switch to a 'Minimalist Phone' (Dumb Phone) instead of a Smart-phone.
The best video ever, we all need to do this. Less smart phones, less tracking..
Einstein didn't fail math… he was Einstein..
It can affect your productivity if you let it, some people are not productive by choice or simple lazyness. That's why I won't use "distraction free" word processors (writing stories is my hobby), as I don't think distraction is the real problem. If I can't do it on my own, probably I didn't concentrate hard enough.
I won't argue that people are easily distracted, even addicted, I just think that people need to be aware of this (as their weakness – if somebody decides to call it that) and work on it consciously. That also helps on other thing.
Interesting, but I think you'll only really know the effect after a year or so. You're currently in the honeymoon phase, the novelty and your personal attitude towards it are affecting how you perceive it. Let us know how it works out in the long term.
lol i have a smart phone but i don't spend alot of time on it at all. girl friend gets mad cause soon as i get home i put it down. i dont respond to dings. ill have like 50 billion notifications. i don't see the attachment that most people do. i value my alone time/ off time. i also don't post on socials anyway.
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Unfortunately at present I'm not able to give up a smart phone as I need to use certain apps for work. What I do though is setup notifications for twice a day – once in the morning before work and again at about 6pm. That way I'm not distracted by random app's sending messages.
And when I get home, it goes on charge and I generally don't touch it again until morning.
It's a lovely thought though.
When your job requires smartphones, you can do nothing.
My 2 predictions: 1- without a smartphone to check and respond to comments throughout the day, your Youtube engagement will gradually go down. 2- if you live with a spouse, partner, or kids, you'll wind up bugging them throughout the day for small things you used to be able to do yourself. Things like: getting directions, looking up restaurant or product reviews, ordering food, QR codes for loyalty cards at stores, QR codes for event tickets, quickly taking someone's contact info, etc. This is not really freeing up time and stress, just outsourcing it to your family, friends, and colleagues as unpaid personal assistants. By week #3, they will start to get annoyed. By week #5, they will start suggesting you go back to your own smartphone. By week #6, your family and friends will demand it. Eventually, I predict you'll end going back to the thing that made your life so difficult, in order to make your life easier. The thing you swore off forever will be back in your pocket. That's when you may consider hiring a personal assistant to do what you hoped eliminating your smartphone would do. I hope I am wrong. Please keep us updated!
@ 3:02 ROFL U mentioned a word;… bored…
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"want to fill in every single board second of your day"
Some really don't know what boredom is…
Well I'll tell U all…
The meaning of Boredom ROFL
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A condition characterised by wandering attention, impaired efficiency, and low levels of arousal.
It is sometimes confused with fatigue, but boredom usually results from too little stimulation, motivation, and interest.
It commonly occurs in those who regularly perform monotonous exercise routines.
Unlike fatigue, boredom leads to a lack of desire to exercise, rather than an inability to exercise.
Boredom is one of the main reasons why people stop exercising and drop out of sport.
It can be avoided if the type and location of exercise is varied, if achievable but challenging targets are set, and if exercise is made more fun.
By El Tel 11/12/2017
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I see some of these dumb phones are sub $200, and can run SOME android apps, and have WiFi/ Bluetooth, but look like an old style small phone with actual buttons, and a 3 inch or so screen. I just really would want Google Earth and Youtube to play music videos through bluetooth. Hmm maybe if the SIM can just be taken out of my I Phone and put in later on. If nothing else, my current phone is the I Phone XR, and will be "downgrading" to the I Phone SE, which is smaller to save space.
I work at a hospital in nursing. I am sure I am the only employee who does NOT bring in my phone. I leave it in the car. I check it on my 15 minute and 30 minute lunch, and that is it. I go inside, it stays in my car. I do have my watch with service so if someone is trying to get ahold, which is pretty much almost never, I will see it, then dismiss and continue with work.
Some people like me don't have Twitter or Facebook at all. In addition, I have not configured a mailbox on my smartphone. I use my smartphone camera a lot to take pictures at work, so I would miss it. Also, it's nice to watch YT videos during lunch break in a park, but that part could be skipped by reading a book while listening to music, right?
You pretty much hit on what I was starting to think about doing, there are times I do have a legitimate need for a smartphone, but it's very limited, and for the most part there's work arounds ala VMs for example. But that may be the approach I end up taking is dumb phone with tethering and have a glorified ipod touch/android MP3 player for the small handful of things I do need when it comes up and maybe see if I can find a solid point and shoot style camera again. I already go and hide my phone behind my monitor to charge it, it was initially meant to be there so I could still see it since I hate ringers so I kept it on silent so I could just see the flash/screen light up and I have times I leave my phone on the other side of my place, sometimes physically chucking it. I mostly rely on self control, which is great until it breaks, so I'll have to figure out a good system for it but I'll probably move into this vein in the future once I get some things lined up.
You will last only few weeks and then: where is my smartphone??🤣
They don't do dumb phones in NZ. put it this way I have never seen them in shops for some time now. And I don't even wear a mask. Who wears a mask over their eyes right? BTW I don't do smart phones. Never had one ever. My dumb phone is toast so I'm on the hunt for a dumb phone.
🙂 WELL DONE! Kudos for doing this and sharing! ? Curious what phone you are using that has wifi tethering for your car deck? ALL THE BEST! Cheers!
Meanwhile facebook, google, microsoft insta–" this guy has figured it out,we have been compromised i repeat we have been compromised" 😅😅
I have no smartphone I have only 3 PCs and a tablet
I don't have and I never had smart phone.
My last G3 Nokia had it for 21 years an now
I have a G2 (no internet) Alcatel 2019G.
It only needs charging once a week.
I am really impressed that you are staying with the dumb phone. I am addicted to the phone and have been using it even for things that are better done on my pc.
I bought a Doro 5516 with sdcard storage for £26 and immediately ran into a problem. The iPhone doesn't save contacts to sim card, so I had to refer to the iPhone for current business. That discouraged me, and I put the sim card back in the iPhone.
But I agree, smartphones are exhausting; so useful so bad for my poor brain.
I will try again
My wife has a regular Doro phone, but she needs to use my smartphone when she needs BankID. So in a family there should only be one smart phone that a family member can use if they have to use BankID.
Here in Sweden we can't be without our "Smartphone" we need BankID everywhere! We can't pay our bills without it. They have force us with it.
i just bought a new legion 5 just opened it doing the debloat and installing programs using ur script non of the programs will install how can i fix this?
Hi Titus, I live through something similar
I can't live without my Playstation Portable to the point that I carry this outside instead of my smartphone. It has 10 times faster boot time than my smartphone (about 10 seconds, Hot n' Ready!), and It has an audio-jack, all I do is listen to music my way in and out of home every single day for months… and this one being a SONY product has excellent sound 🙂 I wouldn't be surprised if this 2004 year product sounds better than some smartphones today…
But I've fallen in love from the first time I booted it up to the first game I booted it up and the first time I started listening to my library of music in it… It doesn't help that I bought it with 128 GBs of SD storage, the Fun has been infinite since and I cannot be stopped 🙂 Ever
I got rid of my smart phone a year ago and don't miss it at all
Hey what about this Linux (Rocky Linux 8) ever looked at it ????????????????
I dont use my smartphone more often then i did with my dumphone in the early 2000. I have two problems with dumb phones: Our lokal public transport company is using an app. You can use a paper ticket, but it costs more. We have a bike rental system which i can use for nothing…that require an app to unlock the bikes…
I thought about this. Being more disciplined with my smart phone usage is what I am doing. Plus life is too short! Live every day like it’s your last because one day it will be. And eat more ice cream!
A smartphone has tons of what use to be separate devices for apps inside of it. I would not advise foregoing those. My addiction is on tablets as I am a reading addict from age 7 on. Having thousands of Kindle and other ebooks in one device is personal heaven.
Following these videos recommendations looks like the downsides are much worse than the benefits! There are a lot of apps there require otp, sms… or it's mobile version is the only one that usable! I understand the point that you can use a web or use a VM but all this defeat the purpose to have "mobile phone"! How you can do these things when you are not in home or not have a laptop available!
Is not much easy to cherry pick the things that are bad for your life and remove it from the phone? social networks, notifications…
If you don't have the a smart phone, you still gonna have the same problems because these apps still exists on the web, some of those are only are worse there!
For me this is physiological issue, not a technological issue that you must have discipline to over come!
I haven't really had a proper smartphone and haven't really had a reason to get one yet. The reason that's had me closest to getting one though is the mere ease of meeting new people and making friends, especially if you're entering a new school or something like that.
I wouldn't get rid of my smartphone altogether, but I found deleting all the scrolling apps made life alot better.
Well a lot of payments in our country depends on scanning qr codes, so that wouldn't work out
I've been thinking of switching to a dumb phone for quite some time now but there are so many features I use on my Android phone it would be really hard to break the habit! You're totally right about smartphones being addictive. Kudos to you for breaking the habit.
That Packt phone looks great but not the price tag! $379 USD can buy a decent smartphone.
On question to the experts out there. Is there a hardware device specifically dedicated to letting you set up to do lists, using voice recognition technology so I can make the list up by talking to the machine. I want nothing else, just that functionality….If you folks know of one, please let me know.