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moylan writes:
An article from the Chicago Tribune discusses people who are changing their smartphone for a dumbphone. From the article:
When Ryan Gleeson punches out a text message or takes a call on his cellphone at parties, he prepares to hear questions from onlookers, and sometimes snickers. That's because the 24-year-old carries a $50 flip phone - the Samsung Gusto 2. There's no touch screen or apps. No Web browsing capabilities. No collection of music to enjoy through earbuds.
"Definitely it's like a black sheep in the room when I pull it out," said Gleeson, a postproduction associate at a documentary production house in Lincoln Park. "I work with a lot of Apple people - creative types. Everyone has an iPhone." Gleeson is among cellphone users who choose to be dialled out of the world of iPhones, BlackBerrys and Androids. In an increasingly connected and accessible culture, these stalwarts have chosen hand-held devices that offer only the basics, despite the social isolation and limitations that may come with them.
For Gleeson, hanging up the iPhone demonstrates no "grand realization about humanity," he said; rather, it's a way to tamp down his compulsive email checking. With the basic phone, "It's a lot easier now to just step away and say, 'I'm not going to work right now,'" he said.
[...a survey] found that 35 percent of U.S. adults carry a cellphone that is not a smartphone.
As someone who got rid of an iphone and android device and replaced them with 2 feature phones I thought I was in the minority. But I have noticed more and more folk around carrying a second dumbphone for when the battery goes on their smartphone. Anyone else doing this?"
[Editor: Yes, me!]
(Score: 5, Interesting) by The Mighty Buzzard on Wednesday March 26 2014, @02:15PM
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(Score: 2, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 26 2014, @02:48PM
Reminds of a person (friend of a friend) without a car that told me that I was required to drive them from (event) to train station because I had a car. Her 'logic' was that as a car owner I should be grateful for people like her that didn't have a car. I offer rides often but it no way is it my duty.
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Wednesday March 26 2014, @02:54PM
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(Score: 1, Offtopic) by Tork on Wednesday March 26 2014, @03:37PM
Slashdolt logic: 1600 x 1200 > 1920 x 1200
(Score: 3) by The Mighty Buzzard on Wednesday March 26 2014, @03:55PM
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(Score: 1, Offtopic) by Tork on Wednesday March 26 2014, @04:11PM
Slashdolt logic: 1600 x 1200 > 1920 x 1200
(Score: 2) by nukkel on Thursday March 27 2014, @07:40AM
I suppose you could offer the rides in exchange for sex ;)
(Score: 2) by Reziac on Wednesday March 26 2014, @08:52PM
Same here. I do not want to be followed around by the phone. I had a dumbphone for a while but ... too much money for too little use (One or two calls a month doesn't justify $30, or even $10). I'll probably get another because I no longer even have a home phone (and don't really want one) just so I can do those calls that need doing when I get to town, but it'll be a pay-as-you-use, or none at all.