We never called it a dumbphone then. However, the new ones that became portals to so many apps made it dumb. I still use one for functionality and long battery life.
It might be the kind of phone you want to have in an emergency.
But if you’re like me, who felt like we were hamsters in a wheel behind our screens, you might want to switch to a dumb phone instead.
From Not smart but clever? The return of ‘dumbphones’:
“Before I would always be stuck to the phone, checking anything and everything, browsing Facebook or the news, or other facts I didn’t need to know,” he says.
“Now I have more time for my family and me. A huge benefit is that I’m not addicted to liking, sharing, commenting, or describing my life to other people. Now I have more privacy.”
I never made the switch. But I am working around ways not to occupy much of my time in front of my phone. How? By doing other things except, you guessed it, everything on my smartphone.
It also helps to sync your phone notifications with your smartwatch or fitness band because you don’t have to check your phone on every ping. Instead, you can quickly sort them between urgent and important just by checking your smartwatch or fitness band.
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