Dumbphones the smarter alternative?

[Skybird]

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.

[AVGWarhawk]

One day I hope to get rid of my smartphone and only carry a flip type phone for calls and text. Not because it is inexpensive. No email. Limited or no internet. In short, get away from this tiresome HURRY world we have cultivated. The constant feeling of being at work because work emails come in all hours of the day. Work calls come in all hours of the day. Text messages from work come in all hours of the day. All of this wonderful technology in your pocket that does not give the owner a moments peace. We are not built to work 24/7. The not so smartphone provides such an avenue for working 24/7. So, saving a few dollars for using a lesser phone is great. Saving my sanity with a bare basic phone is much better.

[Aktungbby]

Attn moderator: this new thread should be moved to Onkel Neal's ongoing sticky mobile phone thread; since the topic exactly follows my current last post in that thread regarding having to upgrade from my dumb flip-Phone due to a tech change from G3 to G5...

[Reece]

One of the things here in Australia that I hate is when traveling through different towns (live in country area), I keep getting messages that I am now in a 4G area!! I mean who gives a crap!! This happens any time passing through various towns, has been going on for years now, drives me nuts!!!
Seems there is nothing I can do except keep deleting them!!

[Moonlight]

There must be a setting in your messaging app to turn those 4g messages off once and for all, if you can't find it I would check your phone's forums and ask in there.

[d@rk51d3]

Originally Posted by Reece

One of the things here in Australia that I hate is when traveling through different towns (live in country area), I keep getting messages that I am now in a 4G area!! I mean who gives a crap!! This happens any time passing through various towns, has been going on for years now, drives me nuts!!!
Seems there is nothing I can do except keep deleting them!!

Never seen that before.

EDIT -

Looks like a legal requirement, due your phone not supporting VoLTE. Apparently to help prevent you from being stranded in an area you can't make calls in.