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I feel like i would like a phone with the sim and wifi module ripped out. Perhaps just bluetooth so my files can get auto transfered when i get home. Phones ar

I feel like i would like a phone with the sim and wifi module ripped out. Perhaps just bluetooth so my files can get auto transfered when i get home. Phones are great note takers and recorders but the social media and communication aspects can be problematic.

giancarlostoro 3y ago
Get a tape recorder and the Remarkable or whatever that ink tablet is, and a dumb flip phone? Or the Nokia brick remake.
hammock 3y ago
>I feel like i would like a phone…but the communication aspects can be problematic. That’s not a phone then. It’s a computer (?)
- BeetleB 3y ago
  Exactly. Where can I get a device that I can use away from home, fits in my pocket, and does not receive calls/texts? I value the camera, the GPS, and occasionally the data (not OP).
  - mattl 3y ago
    iPod Touch if you can still find one?
  - 15457345234 3y ago
    Get a phone and a data-only SIM card? Plenty of options available.
  - klardotsh 3y ago
    Minus the camera thing, I'd almost say a PinePhone-esque device is the fit, given the dodgy telecoms stack (which isn't a dealbreaker to you). Otherwise, though, sounds like a phone in permanent airplane mode (or at least, without a SIM inserted) is the move for you.
  - Hackbraten 3y ago
    The Librem 5 may be a good fit for you. It has switches on the side that physically cut off power to the modem or WiFi whenever you want.
  - AltruisticGapHN 3y ago
    This used to be the iPod touch. iPhone 12 mini is my first smartphone late 2023. I have used iPads for ten years. Love how the iPad freed me from sitting at the PC. Now similarly I wonder if I’ll ever buy iPad again and just buy a good smartphone. Can go airplane mode anyway if I want to. iPhone is kinda like a iPad mini with the SIM card stuff. The convergence is inevitable, Apple Pay is great. My banking app is easier to use on phone than on PC WTF phone doesn’t require me to swipe card in some physical card trader, just type in a short code. It only makes sense someday the phone will be like your ID for everything. IMHO the core unease here is not really the device but just how apps are built, especially social media, which itself is symptomatic of a distorted way of life (cf koyaanisqatsi)
solresol 3y ago
Like a Boox Palma? That doesn't have the SIM ripped out, it's a phone-sized device that isn't a phone. It has wifi though, but you can't watch videos or scroll fast because of the e-ink screen.
asystole 3y ago
Then don't install those apps? I really don't understand the problem. Smartphones only have the apps we install on them.

giancarlostoro 3y ago

Get a tape recorder and the Remarkable or whatever that ink tablet is, and a dumb flip phone? Or the Nokia brick remake.

hammock 3y ago

>I feel like i would like a phone…but the communication aspects can be problematic. That’s not a phone then. It’s a computer (?)

BeetleB 3y ago
Exactly. Where can I get a device that I can use away from home, fits in my pocket, and does not receive calls/texts? I value the camera, the GPS, and occasionally the data (not OP).
- mattl 3y ago
  iPod Touch if you can still find one?
- 15457345234 3y ago
  Get a phone and a data-only SIM card? Plenty of options available.
- klardotsh 3y ago
  Minus the camera thing, I'd almost say a PinePhone-esque device is the fit, given the dodgy telecoms stack (which isn't a dealbreaker to you). Otherwise, though, sounds like a phone in permanent airplane mode (or at least, without a SIM inserted) is the move for you.
- Hackbraten 3y ago
  The Librem 5 may be a good fit for you. It has switches on the side that physically cut off power to the modem or WiFi whenever you want.
- AltruisticGapHN 3y ago
  This used to be the iPod touch. iPhone 12 mini is my first smartphone late 2023. I have used iPads for ten years. Love how the iPad freed me from sitting at the PC. Now similarly I wonder if I’ll ever buy iPad again and just buy a good smartphone. Can go airplane mode anyway if I want to. iPhone is kinda like a iPad mini with the SIM card stuff. The convergence is inevitable, Apple Pay is great. My banking app is easier to use on phone than on PC WTF phone doesn’t require me to swipe card in some physical card trader, just type in a short code. It only makes sense someday the phone will be like your ID for everything. IMHO the core unease here is not really the device but just how apps are built, especially social media, which itself is symptomatic of a distorted way of life (cf koyaanisqatsi)

solresol 3y ago

Like a Boox Palma? That doesn't have the SIM ripped out, it's a phone-sized device that isn't a phone. It has wifi though, but you can't watch videos or scroll fast because of the e-ink screen.

asystole 3y ago

Then don't install those apps? I really don't understand the problem. Smartphones only have the apps we install on them.