• Captain Aggravated@sh.itjust.works
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    6 days ago

    “Distraction free.” I’ve seen people buy these typewriter/word processor clusterfucks because they cannot bring themselves to write their book/screenplay/whatever on a device that is capable of accessing Twitter. I wonder about these people sometimes.

    A phone though? A “phone” is a multitool. I want to be able to look stuff up wherever I am, I want my music collection with me, I want a capable GPS app.

    Why bother with this when dumb phones already exist and are for sale at every grocery store?

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      5 days ago

      The quality of many dumb-phones is dubious, I think we need more options. Alcatel and Mobiwire are just prone to breaking. My Alcatel dumb-phone started to get awful call quality after about 1 year and the keypad didn’t feel 100% consistent, one button had to be held more firmly than others. In the end I had to go back to a smartphone because I needed clearly call quality. On most dumb phones you don’t get VOLTE (HD calling for anyone not familiar) but my problem was worse than not having VOLTE, it was a defective phone.

    • TheMinister@sh.itjust.works
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      5 days ago

      Well personally this interests me because I’ve been looking for any phone that actually doesn’t include gps. So this is also a bit of a privacy phone isn’t it?