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

daniskarma@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

• Jason2357@lemmy.ca ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Precisely. I’d be more likely to switch to one of those pocket “hot spot” devices. Just a thing in my pocket that gives devices I control internet access and maybe has a shitty web interface I can log into for basic SMS when absolutely necessary. No microphone, no camera, no GPS, no access to my actual computing environment. Only 2 downsides are maintaining battery charge in multiple devices and the fact that those hotspots are generally hot garbage, and so unreliable.

  Maybe, a flip phone if one existed that was 1) a full-time good quality internet hotspot (i.e., good battery), and 2) lacked a GPS and camera, and hardware disconnected the microphone when closed. Now that I think about it, that would be a fantastic device… if it existed.

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