Dumbphones the smarter alternative?

Skybird · 03-21-22, 12:26 PM

I say yes. Google finds it much harder to track me down.

https://www.bbc.com/news/business-60763168

I still have an older Samsung E1150 as a reserve. And I find more and more often its the choice to carry with me when going to town, supermarket etc. The smartphone I only carry with me on bike tours - for the camera and navigation map. I have an old contract for it that the provider by now hates, and so I pay only 2 Euros per month.

Just 100 MB data traffic, no SMS and no phone minutes, instead I pay 10 centy per minute or SMS. and since I almost never phone with it and send almost no SMS...

The data of 100MB is more than enough to ask for the occasional train or bus information or weather while not being connected to my home WLAN. I use OSMAND so that I do not need Google Maps which is always online (you can download a small section of map, but it gets deleted after some days of not using it...) and trtacks me all the time. For OSMAND I have everything available fully offline, and the maps are more upt to date and more detailed anyway. I update them at the beginning of the bike season, once a year.

Its crazy what cult peopel make fo their smartpohones, and what they pay for them, and contracts. And they make themselves so transparent and depending.

03-21-22, 12:26 PM	#1
Skybird Soaring Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: the mental asylum named Germany Posts: 42,602 Downloads: 10 Uploads: 0	Dumbphones the smarter alternative? I say yes. Google finds it much harder to track me down. https://www.bbc.com/news/business-60763168 I still have an older Samsung E1150 as a reserve. And I find more and more often its the choice to carry with me when going to town, supermarket etc. The smartphone I only carry with me on bike tours - for the camera and navigation map. I have an old contract for it that the provider by now hates, and so I pay only 2 Euros per month. Just 100 MB data traffic, no SMS and no phone minutes, instead I pay 10 centy per minute or SMS. and since I almost never phone with it and send almost no SMS... The data of 100MB is more than enough to ask for the occasional train or bus information or weather while not being connected to my home WLAN. I use OSMAND so that I do not need Google Maps which is always online (you can download a small section of map, but it gets deleted after some days of not using it...) and trtacks me all the time. For OSMAND I have everything available fully offline, and the maps are more upt to date and more detailed anyway. I update them at the beginning of the bike season, once a year. Its crazy what cult peopel make fo their smartpohones, and what they pay for them, and contracts. And they make themselves so transparent and depending. __________________ If you feel nuts, consult an expert.