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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: 1) by goodie on Friday March 28 2014, @02:06PM
Funny, I was just thinking about this today. My wife starts texting me like she wants to have a conversation... I ended up calling her because I just can't type that fast (I don't use the autocorrect feature because it does not always serve me well) and texting is just not to have a conversation for me ;)
My next phone will definitely not be from Apple that's for sure. Like I said I got it a while before whatsapp etc. back then iMessage was supposed to be useful. Turns out now that's not really the case so I'll be looking at an Android next. But first I'm going to let that one die out, it still works fine except for the music part that's broken by design ;P
(Score: 2) by Grishnakh on Friday March 28 2014, @03:31PM
My Android phone gives you word suggestions as you type in text messages, which I find very helpful (they're optional, you tap on the word on the bar over the keyboard if you see the one you're trying to type out), but I have autocorrect turned off. My wife and I work pretty well that way; if she wants a conversation, she just calls; texting is just for brief messages.