Are you feeling that smartphones are taking the control of your life? If yes, are you doing anything about that?

[Anonymous]

https://www.bbc.com/news/business-60763168?utm_source=pocket-newtab-intl-en
In the article a college student is using a feature phone or a "dumb" phone. And she is not going to change it.

Nokia 3310 I guess...

Recently, I also felt that I am spending so much of my time on my smartphone. And hence I have started making arrangements to shift towards a feature phone for that matter.
Interestingly I am not the only one.

Dumb phones are facing a revival, the article said.
A company in NY, said that they saw a 150% increase in their sales in 2020 and the age group is between 25 to 35, despite them selling the phones at $99. Which is phenomenal, if you ask me.

Quality over price. Quality of life, I think, people want more than the phone quality.

Shifting from a smartphone to a feature phone is not a difficult task, I have found. Most of the apps we use in smartphone are having their own websites. So, we can enjoy a distraction free, disciplined usage of the very services we pay for, at the end of the day, or on a laptop, which is way more distraction free than our smartphone, I have also found.

For music, I think, I will be going back to the radio. Free and genuine enjoyable experience.

Regarding the payment through phone, I am switching to old style cash for the majority. I use my dad's credit card anyways, so no problem there.

NOTE: - I am having my android phone as a primary phone, but will be having my feature phone as a secondary phone. And will try to use the secondary phone as much as possible. Keeping the android on snooze. Forwarding the calls to my secondary phone and other such practices.

Thanks to Mozilla Firefox for recommending me this essential and amazing article. Cheers.

If this question goes well, I think I will be converting it into a myTake too!

[IMuser]

Even the Firefox's homepage of pocket recommendations is a distraction lol 😂😂

I am trying to minimise my mobile usage but won't switch to a secondary phone because of whatsapp, emails, LinkedIn sometimes and chess

[Asker]

Yes!🤣🤣🤣
But I was actively looking for some articles. They are way below the attention grabbing area I think.

[IMuser]

Yeah

[OlderAndWiser]

I spend too much time on my laptop but not my smartphone. Browsing is too cumbersome on a phone.

[Tiptoetamm]

No I put my phone down maybe it's always with me but I'm not always on it

[Xefer]

Some days my screen time is 2 minute per whole day sometimes it's 2 hours I am not worried