Chat

7499 readers

58 users here now

Relaxed section for discussion and debate that doesn't fit anywhere else. Whether it's advice, how your week is going, a link that's at the back of your mind, or something like that, it can likely go here.

Subcommunities on Beehaw:

AskBeehaw

This community's icon was made by Aaron Schneider, under the CC-BY-NC-SA 4.0 license.

founded 2 years ago

MODERATORS

[email protected]

Have You Ever Considered a Dumbphone or Do You Currently Use One? (beehaw.org)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

48 comments fedilink hide all child comments

I had a dumb phone until around 2011 and I really miss not staring at my phone all of the time. The only thing that gives me pause is my family sending links via text. I've tried other ways to limit screen time but if it's there I'm gonna use it.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I used a dumbphone for quite a while last year and honestly loved it. I have a small collection of them at this point since they are relatively inexpensive.

Today I use a Unihertz Titan Pocket which is technically an android, but looks like a Blackberry. I've gotten a bunch of comments on it. It will certainly do more than I need, but I've disabled the play store and use it mostly like a dumb phone, with the exception of streaming music, which the dumbphones obviously wouldn't do. I bought a dedicated mp3 player for that purpose, so that's not the feature that brought me back.

I switched because while I could absolutely use the dumbphone to do everything I needed to do, group texts were ultimately the thing that brought me back to an android. Though it's been a known issue for many years, group texting on Nokia's feature phones is just bad... when it works at all. I still keep an eye on the dumbphone market and will absolutely switch back when group text messages are sorted out.