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Just curious, do you still have/use a Nokia cell phone?
by rsyntax 8y ago
Just curious, do you still have/use a Nokia cell phone?
- ForHackernews 8y agoFunnily enough, I had to send my smartphone in for repair recently, and I popped my SIM card back in my old Nokia phone that I'd kept in a drawer -- it works great. It's a 10+ year old device and the battery has lasted all week.
- EpicEng 8y agoNo, but my old one still works, unlike my last 8 smart phones.
- wsy 8y agoAnd still you use the smart phones daily, not the 'working' Nokia.
- EpicEng 8y agoIt's not binary. Robustness is something we lost. Yes, I am more happy (maybe? Perhaps I now just have another way to waste my time and be interrupted) with my smartphone, but I (we) lost something in the transition. That's the point; you're adding complexity and some people want to pretend that there's no trade off.
- wsy 8y agoI agree, there is always a trade-off, and it is good to make it as explicit as possible.
- coldtea 8y agoYes, helped me skip the whole "attention drainage", "mobile detox", "missing the concern while looking at your screen", "stolen privacy" thing...