I went back to a flip phone after trying a smart phone for a couple years.
These crazy-expensive pocket-cluttering privacy disasters are probably the least reliable bits of technology I’ve ever used. If I’m going to have crappy call quality and crappy network coverage and an overly-busy display with minuscule text that I have to change glasses to read and battery life measured in hours, then I see no reason to buy a fragile $800 slab of surveillance that requires me to open an account with the corporation that created the operating system in addition to the one with the carrier that provides the criminally unreliable network connections and whose coverage area doesn’t include my home.
I’m seated in front of a powerful computer 12 to 14 hours a day, and my car has a highly reliable GPS navigation system with a decent user interface. I see no need for a smart phone.
I wouldn’t have a cell phone at all if my wife didn’t insist that I need one for emergencies. In that light, I find this Light Phone interesting–I love e-ink displays–but it’s still 4 times the cost of a flip phone.
