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I have an iPhone 6, and I'm seriously considering backing down to a non-smart phone in the future. These days I mostly use it for SMS, voice, and very, very lig

I have an iPhone 6, and I'm seriously considering backing down to a non-smart phone in the future. These days I mostly use it for SMS, voice, and very, very light web browsing (basically HN and a few other news sites, and sometimes my mobile banking site). I don't do apps, and the only really compelling feature of the iPhone is Apple Pay. Now that my credit and debit cards are all smartchip enabled, even that is just a gimmick. In fact, I'd say the only thing keeping me on a smartphone at all is playing Ingress, and my wife and I both are getting bored with it. Our local groups are also playing less and less.

dredmorbius 11y ago
Thanks. I'd rightgraded to a feature phone, which often gets left off and/or at home. I recently picked up a WiFi-only tablet. For much use, that's as much connectivity as I need, though the ability to access a very small set of tools while in motion (mostly transit/navigation related) would be useful. There I could get a 4G LTE wireless hotspot, and the price for both devices and services is about right, but, as with the tablet itself, my concern is control. I'm fighting Samsung for who's boss of my tablet (have yet to root/re-ROM it), but for now, I most definately am not, and no, I'm not OK with that. A hotspot would have to support very extensive /etc/host blocklisting -- I've grown quite fond of my laptop's 60k+ entries, and use of dnsmasq. Actually starting to look at what I'd have to do to build and configure my own device, though I'm not sure that'll happen. Among other benefits, battery life for both phone and tablet is vastly better than what I'd previously had for smartphone alone. Phone'll last a week, tablet at least all day, heavy use.