I jumped on the smartphone bandwagon with the original Galaxy S circa 2011. I liked it, though I spent waaaay too much time browsing the Web. Been an Internet addict since we got home web access.
In summer 2013 I upgraded to a Lumia 520. I couldn't get used to the ecosystem so I bought a Samsung Galaxy Young a few months later. I liked that phone and used it for quite a while and gave the Lumia to my mom.
I then bought the Sony Xperia SP. It was bad & I quickly switched back to the Galaxy Young. Then I used my mom's new Galaxy J5 for a while until I bought an iPhone 6S (my first and last iPhone, I hate the flat look on the iOS). After the n-th glass-breaking of the iPhone I'm back to sharing the J5 and wasting too much time browsing.
Now I'm planning to downgrade to a dumb phone so I no longer waste my time browsing the Internet. My reasons:
- I'm a web addict! I don't want to be part of the always-looking-down-at-their-phones-on-the-bus/pub crowd. I think the Nokia 150 doesn't have Internet functionality. Other Nokia feature phones have Fb or web though. :eck:
- Phones no longer feel special - Most all look the same & have the same apps. I find them too big. I miss 4- and 5-inch screens. I don't like bezel-less phones and the way the speaker/camera is like a black dot/line up there in the top bezel. :shocked: Also Custom ROMs are no longer that big, on my Galaxy Young I had removed all web browsers and Search Engines so I ould easily use it just for calls and the weather app. With newer phones it's easier to break things.
- Internet is not the same - Since boomers & the low-IQ crowd got on it fulltime I feel most online communities have become too toxic. Esp. political fights. Fb is notoriously toxic and I deleted mine. :smile:
- I hate having to clean my screen from fingerprints & screen protectors feel weird.
- They shatter too easily. Even screen protectors don't help.
- Battery life's huge on dumb feature phones.
Has anyone went that route? Was it easy? Worth it?
Now if I could find an old smart phone whose web browser no longer works properly I'd love that but most used ones look abused. I think physical buttons are better for me as screens make me think it's a device to browse web on, enabling my addiciton. No iPhone or Android could offer a tile showing my Photos or a People tile showing the photos of my contacts like WP did, though so good riddance!
In summer 2013 I upgraded to a Lumia 520. I couldn't get used to the ecosystem so I bought a Samsung Galaxy Young a few months later. I liked that phone and used it for quite a while and gave the Lumia to my mom.
I then bought the Sony Xperia SP. It was bad & I quickly switched back to the Galaxy Young. Then I used my mom's new Galaxy J5 for a while until I bought an iPhone 6S (my first and last iPhone, I hate the flat look on the iOS). After the n-th glass-breaking of the iPhone I'm back to sharing the J5 and wasting too much time browsing.
Now I'm planning to downgrade to a dumb phone so I no longer waste my time browsing the Internet. My reasons:
- I'm a web addict! I don't want to be part of the always-looking-down-at-their-phones-on-the-bus/pub crowd. I think the Nokia 150 doesn't have Internet functionality. Other Nokia feature phones have Fb or web though. :eck:
- Phones no longer feel special - Most all look the same & have the same apps. I find them too big. I miss 4- and 5-inch screens. I don't like bezel-less phones and the way the speaker/camera is like a black dot/line up there in the top bezel. :shocked: Also Custom ROMs are no longer that big, on my Galaxy Young I had removed all web browsers and Search Engines so I ould easily use it just for calls and the weather app. With newer phones it's easier to break things.
- Internet is not the same - Since boomers & the low-IQ crowd got on it fulltime I feel most online communities have become too toxic. Esp. political fights. Fb is notoriously toxic and I deleted mine. :smile:
- I hate having to clean my screen from fingerprints & screen protectors feel weird.
- They shatter too easily. Even screen protectors don't help.
- Battery life's huge on dumb feature phones.
Has anyone went that route? Was it easy? Worth it?
Now if I could find an old smart phone whose web browser no longer works properly I'd love that but most used ones look abused. I think physical buttons are better for me as screens make me think it's a device to browse web on, enabling my addiciton. No iPhone or Android could offer a tile showing my Photos or a People tile showing the photos of my contacts like WP did, though so good riddance!
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