Comment on What would stop you from switching to a flip phone (or dumbphone) in 2025?

JohnEdwa@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

I simply wouldn’t. A dumbphone does mostly the things I don’t use a phone for.

And I don’t mean fortnite and tickytocks, I’ve grown up through (most) of the history of mobile phones, I started with my mothers old Nokia 2110 back in like… 1998? I remember how awesome it was to finally have a phone, then to be able to get the bus schedules with the painfully slow WAP connection so I didn’t have to call home, then to have navigation, replace the mp3 player, camera, and eventually even mostly my laptop.

I want to have a datapad with access to all the devices and information in my pocket at all times. If I need it to do something, I know there’s an app for it probably. It’s awesome.

I’d really prefer that the datapad wouldn’t then leech all of my information in return, though.

Oh, and bring back physical keyboards. I’d give my left nut for an HTC Desire Z with 2025 hardware.

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