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"Why don't you want to use a cellphone? Privacy/surveillance and/or stimulation addiction?" Pretty much all of this, plus not risking a device that I have to r
by squarefoot 7y ago
"Why don't you want to use a cellphone? Privacy/surveillance and/or stimulation addiction?"
Pretty much all of this, plus not risking a device that I have to rely on for communications. Each of my Sansa players fell like a dozen times without getting a single scratch because they were very light and the screen was small and sturdy; had I used a cellphone I would probably have destroyed at least its screen multiple times or ruined it from prolonged exposition to salty air at the sea.
Also I don't use smartphones due to the above points, and I still have to see a traditional phone with a decent player (and a decent camera, but that's another story).
The PinePhone might change this, however. Silently waiting for it to hit the market.
- frabbit 7y agoThat's pretty much it on all points for me: light and small with a sturdy plastic case meant that dropping it was not disastrous. Am definitely interested in the PinePhone, but suspect that its dimensions will mean that I shall be restricted in not using it while running/cycling and (more importantly for me) as a cheap audiobook player that I fall asleep to in bed and occasionally drop out of the bed onto the floor or sleep on top of.
- squarefoot 7y agoA hint for the folks at pine64: please take into consideration the PinePod :)
- tllim 7y agoCheck on my response :-)