I’d like to go back to a sort of smartphone with a small screen and slide ourmt keyboard. I like to be able to run different messaging apps to keep in contact with friends. But I also want to remove all the other distractions from my life. Unfortunately, I have a business that needs a fully functioning smartphone on me at all times.
I think my solution will be to have a business only phone, and then have a small personal phone with a small screen and minimal distraction, and possibly an alternative OS.
My current phone is small enough that it’s difficult for me to do much on it - eyesight being the main culpit on that - and it’s actually a good deal for me!
Keeps me from using the phone online and my computers are old enough with unsupported OS installs, that the current crop of online services run so murderously slow I avoid them.
(Part of why I’m on old.lemmy.zip. Basic text, easy to read, runs on old kit w/o hassle.)
I use my oldest phones as glorified iPods and have an iPhone 3GS doing service as a nighttime sound generator (I have wicked tinnitus) - for over a decade now.
I’d like to go back to a sort of smartphone with a small screen and slide ourmt keyboard. I like to be able to run different messaging apps to keep in contact with friends. But I also want to remove all the other distractions from my life. Unfortunately, I have a business that needs a fully functioning smartphone on me at all times.
I think my solution will be to have a business only phone, and then have a small personal phone with a small screen and minimal distraction, and possibly an alternative OS.
I’m with you on that.
My current phone is small enough that it’s difficult for me to do much on it - eyesight being the main culpit on that - and it’s actually a good deal for me!
Keeps me from using the phone online and my computers are old enough with unsupported OS installs, that the current crop of online services run so murderously slow I avoid them.
(Part of why I’m on old.lemmy.zip. Basic text, easy to read, runs on old kit w/o hassle.)
I use my oldest phones as glorified iPods and have an iPhone 3GS doing service as a nighttime sound generator (I have wicked tinnitus) - for over a decade now.
Nice. I wish I had old phones to do those things. I only replace my phone when it fails catastrophically