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Can dumb phones be the cure for smartphone addiction?
HMD Global just released a , and this isn’t the first time feature phones make the news. For a few years, the so-called dumb phones have gathered attention through nostalgia-soaked releases and confusing statistics about young people embracing old-school devices instead of their smartphones.The reason? Almost everyone feels addicted to their smartphones, and dumb phones seem like a good solution to many.In a recent New York Times article, the author used a dumb flip phone for a month and faced various obstacles but generally enjoyed the experience. Vice now has “The Best Dumb Phones of 2024” list that could free you from “obsessively checking social media, email, or OnlyFans.” The New Yorker declared that “the dumbphone boom is real” in a story of a small feature phone store aimed at people who are addicted to their phones.Do you think this is the answer to smartphone addiction? After all, smartphones also help us with vital stuff like banking, navigation and two-factor authentication. So, ditching your smartphone may be impossible or extremely difficult to pull off, but it may also be totally worth it.Would you switch your smartphone for a dumbphone? Are you ready to leave the comfort of modern tech in the name of solving a difficult problem? Is there a combination of devices that could make this process easier for you, like a smartwatch with cellular? Do you think the dumbphone will have a bigger impact on the smartphone world? Or the whole addiction thing is a fad and you don’t believe in it?
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Depends how you define the world, but if you ask me, nearly nothing is "safe" these days. When major companies benefit from using our usage records/data to further manipulate us into spending more to finance their further intrusive and greedy practices (like AI without proper regulation and incentive to improve the craft of creators), unfortunately nothing short of disconnecting society will let you escape from recent trends. It stopped being about personal privacy and pleasing customers decades ago. Global recession have created a trend where companies are desperate enough to push technologies without caring much about the repurcussions. Unfortunately, thinking companies like Apple are knights in shining armor is the sort of niavety that will push the top 5% into being richer and the middle class into oblivion.
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I keep saying it: Huawei doesn't need anything faster than what it has. It's trouncing ALL of its competitors without gimmicky cutting-edge chips. Comments here and in similar articles only validate my opinion. 😏
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Long form videos is a good idea.But vision pro won't replace iPhone.These kind of devices will replace televisions,gaming consoles and possibly PC's and tablets. The quest pro 2 will do it first. It is in talks with LG to do that in various ways. Or so I have read.
The thing that will replace phones is of course rollables and later rollables will evolve into strap-on ( to the wrist) bendable phones. I remember talking about this earlier too here.
Later smart spectacles will replace phones, after that smart contacts then after that implanted chips in the brain by 2040.
Edit: Or smart specs could exist alongside wrist strap-on phones by the end of this decade as a replacement to current phones. Then next decade smart contacts.
These could be used as topics too for your video series down the line.
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Great article. These people can sound really convincing. Do what I always tell people, if anyone calls you, T-Mobile, your bank, your credit card, anyone, politely hand up and call the service back at the number you have on file for them.
T-Mobile subscribers need to watch out for this scam which could wipe you out quickly
I think Samsung is going to be hard-pressed to care much, when the ZF5 beats the Pixel Fold, depsite its smaller battery. 9.4 hours of SOT is nothing to sneeze at.
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Good to see Samsung working hard to get back to where it belongs and where it had been for 13 years in a row. I like what Samsung did with the S24 series from the design (hardware) to the AI integration (they kept it simple, didn't overdue it), and especially One UI 6.1, to me is this year's stand out feature. And we are still half way, we still have the Foldables and the Ring to look forward to. But to be fair this is only one quarter, I want to see the year to year numbers.
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