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As an aside, I know for a fact that 4 (ridesharing) is possible without a smart phone... if you speak Yiddish. In Williamsburg, Brooklyn I saw an ad for an inte
by throw4847285 3y ago
As an aside, I know for a fact that 4 (ridesharing) is possible without a smart phone... if you speak Yiddish. In Williamsburg, Brooklyn I saw an ad for an integration between flip phones and Lyft geared towards the Chasidic population many of whom believe that it is forbidden to own a smartphone but OK to have a flip phone. I haven't dug into the internal reasoning from a Jewish legal perspective, but from the outside, it's a fascinating place to draw the line.
I also find it fascinating from an engineering perspective. I wonder what other apps they've managed to integrate into the flip phone?
- JohnFen 3y agoThe problem I've found with flip phones is that they're still smartphones, complete with apps. Just very limited smartphones. I want an actual dumbphone, but I can't find any on the market anywhere.
- throw4847285 3y agoFunnily enough, if you're shopping for a "kosher phone" you can actually choose between a smartphone with a limited number of apps to fit in with your religious strictures, or an actually bonafide dumb phone. https://koshercell.org/collections/dumb-phones https://koshercell.org/collections/dumb-phones Though there may be other features of a Kosher phone that don't make it a good choice for somebody who wants a dumb phone but doesn't live within a specific type of insular religious community. I'm not sure.
- JohnFen 3y agoOh, thank you! I will absolutely check this out.