I don't even know what you're doing with a basic mobile phone these days, unless you're somebody who really needs to make tons of calls.<p>The whole thing about a smartphone is that it's a computer in your pocket. That's super powerful, and like any computer it's whatever you make of it.
Other than advancing some identity statement or some breakfast-movie-club-esque social categorization who cares the guy is 24? Sheesh. Always be hustling identity style is exhausting.
I used a Palm Treo from the time they came out until the Sprint-T-Mobile merge. So almost 20 years. Loved the little buttons because I lost the tips of my fingers and being able to write notes with the stylus. (My hand writing now looks like Graffiti on paper. I can read it, but nobody else can) I’d buy Treos on EBay for about $25 stick them in a drawer and swap when one died.<p>I have three apps, Dunkin and Wawa to preorder breakfast, and Waze. I’d love to find a phone with buttons again.
one trick i use is to keep the smartphone at home at all times. mine replaces the fixed landline phone. people can sms/mms me and i check the phone contents when going home after work or if i'm working from home, after my day of work is done and the work laptop turned off at the end of the day. works nicely because it's a kinda of upgraded landline phone.<p>and with me when not i home i carry a dumb phone and only family members can call me or message me on it.