The NoPhone

This is fun and all, but also incredibly sad. My fiancée previously complained that I was staring at my phone too much (and she was absolutely right). So, I decided to minimise it. Remove all apps and notifications, and kept it in a corner of the kitchen instead of in my pocket. Even though she has not increased her screen time, it is now obvious to me that SHE is staring to much into that screen. We are all phone junkies.

1. Buy a joke, laugh 2. Put it in a drawer for 10 years 3. Throw it away, eventually into the ocean to add more microplastics as it breaks down.<p>Maybe just laugh of the idea but don&#x27;t actually buy it.

I absolutely hate this. It&#x27;s funny, as a joke, but the fact that someone has produced, marketed and made this drives me insane.<p>The waste it produces for no reason is in my opinion unconscionable - I spent more time than I admit checking through the site to see if it&#x27;s a parody with no real available product, and then double checked the comments here hoping to validate that the whole thing wasn&#x27;t real.

I&#x27;ve seen wooden handcrafted versions of this and thought: &quot;Cute, I guess there might be niche market for it&quot;.<p>Chunks of useless throwaway plastic that will end up polluting our oceans, not so cute.

I prefer my Palm phone[0]. It is so tiny I can&#x27;t really DO anything with it unless it is a legit emergency. But when I do need it, there is wifi, cell, browser, google maps, and gps. The &quot;life mode&quot; is fantastic, no calls or notifications at all until you unlock the screen. Combined with a really short battery life when the screen is on, it is the perfect daily driver for me and my outdoors lifestyle. Also charges in like 15 minutes.<p>However, I have a regular mega phone with wifi only for lounging on the sofa, so I still have that problem when I&#x27;m at home :&#x2F;<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;palm.com&#x2F;pages&#x2F;product" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;palm.com&#x2F;pages&#x2F;product</a>

There&#x27;s a durability test: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=1riMzZ6CjUI" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=1riMzZ6CjUI</a>. Seems like a solid device.

For $7.50 you can get a dummy phone which looks a lot more realistic. A quick search on Aliexpress shows this for the iPhone X, and there are plenty of other options. (I had a bunch of the iPhone 8 models for a work project. The only downside is the glass is most definitely NOT Gorilla Glass).<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.aliexpress.com&#x2F;item&#x2F;1005001708486523.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.aliexpress.com&#x2F;item&#x2F;1005001708486523.html</a>

This is a great joke. But I&#x27;m skeptical this will actually illicit any behavior change. I think a better approach is to try to change our current phone usage patterns. I&#x27;ve been working on a timelock wireless charger to do just that: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;pausbox.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;pausbox.com&#x2F;</a>

Now what I want to see is a real clinical study of quitting (or reducing) addictive phone use with this thing. Because fake cigarette can actually work for some people quitting smoking, why this one wouldn&#x27;t? The same technique might work for video games or social networks too.

While this is a great solution, I&#x27;ve found my Light Phone II to be a very solid replacement for my old dumbphones. Group texting that works! Cloud syncing your contacts! Wifi tethering if you really need it!

<i>Completely Toilet Bowl Resistant</i><p>I like the NoPhone Air best. Zero weight, and it would be unsinkable in a toilet bowl!

I have one, with the SELFIE accessory.<p>Rock solid, never gave me any trouble. Works exactly as advertised.<p>It was on Kickstarter first, iirc. I laughed so hard that I bought one.

I&#x27;ve to admit that I could not figure out that this is or not an April fool Joke.<p>I&#x27;m a phone minimalist&#x2F;essentialist. I did started early with &quot;smart&quot; phones and was on the forefront of most new phones, including being one of the early iPhone users. However, I did realize that this was not good for the lifestyle I want to live. So, I&#x27;ve been leading a No-Phone-ish Life[1] by early 2011.<p>The screen greyscale thing do not work with me. The one key app that I need color is Maps (Google&#x2F;Apple).<p>Someone in the comments mentioned pairing your phone with a Watch. Yes, this works. I have practically stopped using the phone in and around the house or even while walking&#x2F;running down in the community spaces where I live.<p>1. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;no.phone.wtf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;no.phone.wtf</a>

I live in a place where mugging is somewhat usual, and this could actually be useful if it were slightly cheaper and looked a bit more like a phone, so that I could carry it around and handle that instead of my real phone.

I remember seeing this on Shark Tank years ago and didn&#x27;t think much of it. Now I have a toddler who always goes after our phones so maybe this will be a good gift for him.

i&#x27;d get one for nomoney

I found setting my phone to black-and-white makes me want to look at it less.<p>On iPhone, the setting is buried under accessibility &gt; display and text size &gt; color filters

I had one of these after i finished college abroad for like 2 months until I got an actual phone - miss those days. Everyone _hated_ me whenever i brought it up. What fun. If only I didn&#x27;t have to go on call so i could make this my permanent phone :)

My fiancé&#x27;s phone habit (Instagram, TikTok) is seriously hurting her potential to find a job and our relationship. I&#x27;ve tried to talk to her about it but the discussions never end well. I don&#x27;t know what to do.

Changed to a Nokia 225 a couple of weeks ago. Either when you do that, or delete everything on your smart phone and have nothing to do on it, you realise just how much time people around you look at their phones.

Reminds me of this app: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;techcrunch.com&#x2F;2017&#x2F;06&#x2F;10&#x2F;binky&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;techcrunch.com&#x2F;2017&#x2F;06&#x2F;10&#x2F;binky&#x2F;</a>

It&#x27;s crazy, I noticed I liked the phone in my hands, and I scurry around to try to find my phone if I realize it&#x27;s not there. Crazy. I even tried the light phone.

What a funny-mess. As a joke I got it. Better invest in education, or craft it from wood, but not plastic!

And FBI won&#x27;t break into it!

I am thinking of buying a old stupid phone, guess it will make me more productive.

(2014)

A waste of plastic really

Hilarious -- but does it actually help anyone?

They will be making 99% margins on volume

I was a fan of this before it was cool

Looks cool, how does this compare to iPhone 12 Pro?

<i>(2014)</i>

So, it’s plastic waste.

Shark tank throwback :p

Carry a pocket notebook instead.

i need one which <i>doesn&#x27;t</i> support 5g