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I used the Nokia 8110 with KaiOS as a digital detox phone during holidays. It has working email, whats app, google map, hotspot. It has enough features to "surv

I used the Nokia 8110 with KaiOS as a digital detox phone during holidays. It has working email, whats app, google map, hotspot. It has enough features to "survive" and answer or triage the occasional fires from work. And it is unusable enough that i don't use it for non important stuff (chatting, browsing, etc). Ironically its bad UI/UX is it's main selling point.

srbby 7y ago
And that's exactly detoxing you from what? I mean it's got email, whatsapp, a browser, facebook probably... so what's the point?
- truculent 7y ago
  you can do these things, but there's enough friction that you won't do it unless you have a good reason
- filmgirlcw 7y ago
  As truculent noted, the friction involved in doing any of those things is pretty much enough to just not do anything at all. Aside from sending SMS messages (or I guess, WhatsApp messages, once you manage to actually login to WhatsApp), the whole process is so painful, it reminds me why I haven't owned a T9 phone since the Motorola Razr -- and why I ultimately moved from that device to a BlackBerry (and then to an iPhone). I genuinely have no idea how I used to send so many text messages in high school and college.
filmgirlcw 7y ago
That's a great solution -- as you say, the bad UI/UX would make it a great detox device. In my experience (I bought one too, though I imported it and so it doesn't work on most US 4G bands), it's so hard to use that I don't know if it would actually let me detox from a device or just drive me back to my iPhone. (At least I'm down to only using one phone at a time. That's progress, right?)