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I tried going back to a basic phone again for a few months some years ago. Tbh the only two positives were: - Battery would last several days on a single char
by codetrotter 3y ago
I tried going back to a basic phone again for a few months some years ago.
Tbh the only two positives were:
- Battery would last several days on a single charge. I had totally forgotten that that used to be the case.
- Less time wasted on social media etc.
But the drawback was immense!
For one, it was not until I put my smart phone away that I realised just how valuable Google Maps is to me.
And of course, a lot of my communications with other people are in various apps these days. SMS is just not very useful at all now.
So the lesson learned was that it is better to have a smart phone.
- hsudvsish 3y agoisn't an regular offline gps device an option?
- sethherr 3y agoNo traffic updates, no transit directions, no bike directions. It’s very much worse
- daneel_w 3y agoNot to mention that map application availability was equal to zero unless using the very latest breed of pre-smart phones from the late 2000s, and even then it was so-so.
- codetrotter 3y agoMany of my searches in Google maps are also for things like grocery stores etc. With a regular offline gps device I would not have that
- daneel_w 3y ago> "- Battery would last several days on a single charge. I had totally forgotten that that used to be the case." Several days? Surely you meant weeks? Unless you spent an hour or two calling on the phone every day, of course. I get 5-10 days out of my iPhone depending on desire for leisure. In the "dumb" era the number was about 2-3 weeks, even when I was young and always texting throughout the day.
- codetrotter 3y ago> I get 5-10 days out of my iPhone depending on desire for leisure I probably use the phone a lot more than you. My iPhone has to be charged at least twice a day, and it’s not even that old. My current iPhone is an iPhone 14 Pro.
- daneel_w 3y agoYeah that definitely sounds like you're constantly on the phone - or at the very least keep everything and then some running in the background with app refresh and location services etc. enabled.
- codetrotter 3y agoGuilty as charged :p
- seized 3y agoDon't you mean discharged?
- smoldesu 3y ago> Unless you spent an hour or two calling on the phone every day, of course. That's what people are using iPhones for these days?
- daneel_w 3y agoTalking on the phone, like some sort of psychopath...
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- the_pwner224 3y agoAny modern smartphone will have several days of battery life, if not more, if you use it as a dumb phone (WiFi & mobile data turned off, only using it for calls & SMS). My Galaxy S5 (~8 years old now?) passively discharged at 1% per day with WiFi & data disabled.