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I'm seriously considering just going with a feature phone. I am very careful about the apps I have installed on my phone and most of them are just for convenien
by phillc73 5y ago
I'm seriously considering just going with a feature phone. I am very careful about the apps I have installed on my phone and most of them are just for convenience and not critical.
I could do without email, just wait until I'm at a desktop/latop. I could do without chat, again just wait until I'm at a desktop/laptop or use SMS. I could probably do without a browser as well, although this would probably be the most inconvenient loss.
Other than that, I use my mobile phone as a phone, a camera and an alarm clock. If I want small, high quality digital camera I could buy one (or use a phone without a sim card and Wifi turned off 90% of the time). A feature phone would cover the phoning, SMS and alarm use cases.
I'm really not sure what I'd be missing out on that was critical to my life. I'm about to have a three week summer holiday and I am sorely tempted to buy a sub-€100 feature phone just to try this idea. As I also don't want to take a laptop on holiday, I might need to take the smart phone with me to check things once a day. At least it would then only be in one specific location for a very short time.