I have been contemplating moving away from smartphones, what are some best feature/dumb phones out there? What's your experience of moving away from smart phone? Looking forward to some good discussion.
I think it's best to consider the original "smart" phone: Blackberries. Before my Galaxy, I was pretty broke looking for something better than my feature phone. Throwaway Blackberries were common on eBay due to volume purchasing and upgrade cycles by businesses. Probably more so now that everyone is ditching them for iOS and Android.<p>Anyway, the main benefits are a keyboard that works, plenty battery life, useful apps, and probably $50 or less. Feature phones especially have terrible keyboard/numpad combos that hurt the thumb. Just having a real keyboard... well, a two-thumb board if we're honest... was a serious improvement. Ended up finding hundreds of free apps online, too.<p><a href="http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_sacat=0&_nkw=blackberry&_dcat=9355&rt=nc&_mPrRngCbx=1&_udlo=20&_udhi=50" rel="nofollow">http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_sacat=0&_nkw=black...</a>
I have a Nokia feature phone for work purposes, and it is a pain to use (, but has excellent battery life).<p>I don't think using a feature phone is desirable unless you really only want to do calls (using the phone network, not e.g. Skype) and text messages (again, not using Whatsapp/ FB messenger etc.). You would miss out on Maps, traffic information, (most likely) the option to sync your calendar and contacts, ...<p>Instead, manage your smartphone so that it becomes less distracting, e.g. by disabling all but the most important notifications. Or leave it off sometimes.