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Brick phones will ring in an unlikely revival (www.reuters.com)

submitted 1 day ago by [email protected] to c/technology

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Smartphone makers will soon face an unlikely competitor. Concerns about the impact of social media are driving demand for old-school Nokia brick-like handsets...

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I heard about the Light Phone recently and I think it's a decent bridge between the old brick phones and modern smartphones. It has navigation and music functionality that a brick phone wouldn't, but doesn't have all the rest of the attention thieving bloat of a smartphone.

It would be nice to have music streaming capability and alternative messaging apps (Signal) and perhaps a web browser, though.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 17 hours ago

Just disable everything on your phone right now down to the essentials. If you're on Android, there's a lot of really minimalist 3rd party launchers like Niagara launcher that can improve the minimalist experience as well. You'd basically mimic the light phone at that point while still having every upside and be able to selectively enable and disable what you're asking.

You don't need to pay for an overpriced phone to take your choices away. You can find the will power to just disable it on your current phone.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago (2 children)

600 dollars

this is a joke, right?

[–] alphabethunter 1 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Truthfully 800, but there is an old model that costs "only" 300...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 hours ago

you can get a fairly decent simple android device for like 70 bucks. so the gimmick seems to prey on those that wish to have an "experience" and not a functional device.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

Do have any idea about the engineering required to remove all of the bloat?!