Personally I do not like much being back to a dumbphone but I do like less to pay for a smartphone and it's connectivity for someone else profit in exchange of

Personally I do not like much being back to a dumbphone but I do like less to pay for a smartphone and it's connectivity for someone else profit in exchange of crumbs. I've tried the PinePhone, witch is fantastic but not much ready to be a daily driver, so for now I keep my old Nokia (that suffer casual glitches) until GMS network shutdown will impose a 4G phone, hoping that at that time the PinePhone or something else will be ready enough. While I recognize tha Google Maps navigate very well, far better than classic PND devices like my not-so-old but not-that-new TomTom I still being able to travel with the TT... I do not take much photos so a classic cheap wifi-less digital camera (12Mp) with a classic flash memory card accessible via an USB adapter or directly through the camera USB cable on my desktop it's again enough, no good as a phone in my pocket, take more place etc but still enough to have in car. A classic outdoor GPS for trekking it's somewhat better than a smartphone since it's far less prone to fall and breaks while it's UI and cartography are definitively not much etc. It's doable. Uncomfortable but doable. What I fear it the future: I fear that not enough people react so in a soon future we are forced to use some Android or iOS app do do mandatory things like payments, IDs, even just banking third factor auth etc because that's the trend I see everywhere. I fear future cars with mandatory connections and an unknown set of built-in vulnerabilities I can't check nor mitigate much. I fear for my next washing machine if there will be no one on the market without a mandatory connection and automated fw updates... In general I know that if a device is called "smart" that means it's user is considered "dumb" and I do not like that, simply. So I hope enough people will force OEMs to keep some alternatives around.