#dumphone

A Dumb Phone is the best investment you'll ever make.

For me, the sense of not being tethered to everything and everyone will always be a freeing experience. It also gives a hit of focus that I can never get while my smartphone's around.

Once all of the apps and widgets are taken away, you're forced to focus on your direct environment. It's basic, but it's a renewing experience.

If this sounds compelling to you, and if you want to reap the same benefits, I highly recommend swapping out your smartphone for a week.

Give it a try, let me know if you see similar effects.

I don't mind you asking at all! It's going pretty well! I am still using the unihertz jelly star and it works great! I am considering eventually going down to an even "dumber" (I hate this terminology) phone in the future though. The jelly star is still very much an android smartphone and I've found myself occasionally checking Tumblr or reddit in browser which is not what I want to be doing :( I briefly hopped back onto Tiktok for a bit two weeks ago and re-remembered why I got the heck off of that platform, so I disabled my account. Overall, I'm happy with my decision but think that the jelly star has a few too many features for my taste.

Overall though, I've been reading more, knitting more, cleaning the house more, and I definitely still get enough screentime for enjoyment through going on Tumblr on my laptop. My screentime on my jelly star is about 30 min to an hour a day, most of which is texting and phone calls.

My wife and I have been playing board games, sitting on our porch to read, and generally spending more quality time together, and when I'm with friends I no longer have that instinct to check my phone every twenty minutes. Overall I highly recommend it, but if your self control is low like mine, I'm not sure a jelly star is the perfect choice because of its capacity to still do all the smartphone things. I do think the camera is quite good tho, which is a great positive as someone who enjoys snapping pictures of things that make me happy.

In de tijd dat de smartphones nog niet op de wereld waren gekomen, bordspelletjes nog gezellig offline werden gespeeld, er fotograafje werd gespeeld met een camera en pingen, whatsappen, twitteren, porren en liken nog niet in het vocabulaire werden gebruikt, waren de woestaantrekkelijke en onverwoestbare retromobieltjes van Nokia een echte hype. Na een comeback van dit bedrijf op de smartphonemarkt met de Lumia-reeks, komt het met een toestel voor alle mensen die verlangen naar de tijd van vroeger: de Nokia 103.

Dit fenomeen heeft een schermresolutie van 96 bij 68 pixels en zou bovendien stofvrij zijn. Met name voor festivalgangers zou deze gadget handig zijn, aangezien de accu veel langer meegaat dan die van een gemiddelde smartphone. Het toestel kan 27 dagen op stand-by staan en je kunt er 11 uur lang mee bellen. Ook zitten er een FM-radio, geïntegreerde zaklamp en enkele spelletjes in en kan het bijhouden hoe lang jouw abonnement of beltegoed nog meegaat.