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Give me a semi-smartphone. All I want is a dumb phone that has high quality music streaming, GPS, Mail, RCS messaging, calling, Bluetooth, and a modern camera. No big screen, return to T9 typing on a keypad. Just something pocketable that can take good pictures and tackle basic communication in a reliable shell.

I even love the idea of the screen being at-best preview size for photos just for framing and general composition. Where you can’t really tell the quality until you look at them later on a computer.

Idk I’m rambling but after my last app purge I’m down to just 60 apps (which includes most of the built in ones). Still feels like too many since I’ve also cut my daily phone usage down to about 90m on average. I’m kinda tired of it all.

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DannyMac@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Ehh we can and should do better than T9. …but then the phone might start to become fun to use, drawing you back in… Bring back T9!

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RGB3x3@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
I’ve been thinking the exact same thing. But then I think, “I need to be able to install apps like proton mail, and Signal. But I NEED a web browser because I do a lot of personal business-related things on my phone. Well, now I’m back at just having a smartphone.”

I don’t know, I need all the functionality of a smartphone, but I want some kind of physical control to keep me off it until I actually need it for something. Mostly something that makes using it just difficult enough that it’s not worth using it only because of boredom. And software controls are just too easy to turn off.

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prashanthvsdvn@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Add flip phones and sliding QWERTY like the N95 to the list

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