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NGL if you have a flip phone now, you're either a contract killer, a drug dealer and or a stage 5 weirdo.
This is just judgemental and stupid. If you are easily distracted not using a smartphone outside business hours is hugely beneficial.
I use a lumia 550, but REALLY I would prefer an old school phone like the w800i, but a good k750/w800/k800 is rare and expensive at this point and pretty likely to fail. (I have 2g here). So the lumia it is.
wait, the Lumia 550 was windows phone. Are you still rocking that? i guess by now it's just a phone and text machine?
I miss my 920 and 1520 :`(
I mean this depends on your viewpoint. Yes it is my off-hours daily. (I have to have a smartphone when working)
It can:
- Call and text Edit: this IS a 4g device, and has support for VoLTE, so it has modern call quality. Most feature phones you can buy suck as phones.
- Play a bunch of games
- Has a pretty good MP3 player (also can connect to modern bluetooth devices (!!!!))
- Has a camera of completely reasonable quality
- It can display pictures, play videos, view all sorts of documents. (Ebooks .docs, xlsx-es, ppt-s)
- Even the maps work (although who knows for how long)
- Has microSD XC support
So it basically does what my w800i does, but in a way newer phone. In my view it does everything a modern device does, except for all the doomscrolly bits.
So yeah, if you need a weekend phone, picking up a lumia makes a whole lot of sense in my view.
Friend of mine bought her first smart phone about a year ago. She just didn't need any of the functions on a smartphone and was happier with her flip phone: pretty much infinite battery, near indestructible, does communicate just ok.
Only reason she bought a smart phone is to download some group chat clients. Since she broke up with her BF, we additionally had to write her on SMS. So she made it a bit easier for us.
Or an old person. My grandparents have flip phones lol
Old people are de-facto stage five weirdos.
I've seen doctors use them as work phone, like a modern pager.
Yeah and they dispense drugs.
I miss the Nokia 3310's tramadol dispenser, man
they use it not to get distracted by work, anon isn't like that.
No, they use them because the battery lasts for ages and they're very reliable. They still have modern smartphones for personal use. And nothing wrong with that, the main use for a phone should be communicating with others, if Anon can get away with only SMS and regular calls, good for him.
Or maybe just broke, but then it's a little odd to by pursuing more than a 2 year degree without a stable living situation.
Or you wanna get away from the distractions of modern smartphones.
Because phone bad.
I only bought a smartphone because I was getting into the HVAC field and I wanted to have access to the Internet to help with diagnostics, if it wasn't for that job I might still just have an old flip phone lol