minus-squareweew@lemmy.catoTechnology@lemmy.world•What would stop you from switching to a flip phone (or dumbphone) in 2025?linkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up14·edit-214 days agoYou may as well ask me to throw away me phone entirely. I don’t carry a smartphone to make phone calls. I hate phone calls. 95% of that is spam. And an old dumbphone won’t even have auto spam detection. I use my phone to take pictures, send those pictures, look for restaurants, navigate to those restaurants, listen to music, etc. So what you’re asking for is to make the part I hate about phones worse, while removing all the functions I actually use my phone for. linkfedilink
minus-squareweew@lemmy.catoWorld News@lemmy.world•Japan's Prince Hisahito is the first male royal to reach adulthood in 40 years. He may be the lastlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·23 days agoMeh, they’re basically living tourist attractions these days with no more political power than a movie star. linkfedilink
You may as well ask me to throw away me phone entirely. I don’t carry a smartphone to make phone calls. I hate phone calls.
95% of that is spam. And an old dumbphone won’t even have auto spam detection.
I use my phone to take pictures, send those pictures, look for restaurants, navigate to those restaurants, listen to music, etc.
So what you’re asking for is to make the part I hate about phones worse, while removing all the functions I actually use my phone for.