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I despise the modern phones and internet
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Siwastaja:
I still use a Nokia GSM phone from 2005. I replaced the battery once, somewhere around 2010, and that battery is still going... can't say strong, but acceptably.

And don't get me wrong, this is not excellent technology. The firmware is buggy, for such a simple thing. Everything was rushed to market back then, just like today. One of the funnier ones is, the alarm clock feature sometimes fails to alarm. People have hard time believing that "excuse" when being late in the morning, and I had hard time believing it myself, but once I caught it red-handed blinking the "wake up" alarm without the sound, and then as a side effect (bugs often come with those things), losing all icons from the menu until restart.

But it works, I can call and reply to SMS messages. It has some rudimentary web browsing stuff, but it did not realistically work even when brand new.

I have not looked at buying a smartphone. I first said I'll do it in 2015, then 2020, now let's say... 2030? And despite the fear mongering, the 2G network is not actually going anywhere, given all the legacy internet-connected things like security alarms etc. Numerous times there have been "definite" dates when it's going down, never happened.

And whenever some bullshit company or service requires me to install an "app", I simply take my business elsewhere.

Modern-day internet went crap already around 2006-2007, Youtube and blogs killed web pages. Discussion forums survived a bit longer but Facebook killed them a few years later, EEVblog is one of the rare beasts that still lives strong.
Black Phoenix:

--- Quote from: Siwastaja on December 14, 2022, 04:26:50 pm ---Modern-day internet went crap already around 2006-2007, Youtube and blogs killed web pages. Discussion forums survived a bit longer but Facebook killed them a few years later, EEVblog is one of the rare beasts that still lives strong.

--- End quote ---

More like Reddit being the (bad) replacement for bulletin boards IMHO.
Ground_Loop:
I'll start by saying I'm responding to this thread on a smart phone 38000 feet above Texas which I think is kinda cool.  Anyway,  ETIs rants often make me feel better knowing that I have moved through my life successfully keeping myself safely out of reach of many of those problems. At the point I feel offended I'll just stop reading his posts. Pretty simple really.
james_s:
I like my smartphone, it's like an electronic Swiss Army knife. It's my communications device, my GPS navigator, my still camera, my video camera, my music/podcast player, home automation controller, portable video player, calculator, compass, pocket flashlight and many other things. It's not the best at any single one of those tasks but it does a good job and it's always right there in my pocket. Use a basic phone if you want but like most people I would never want to go back. On top of offering so many more features, it's also cheaper than my first mobile phone which was a basic feature phone. It only costs me $50/mo for unlimited everything. I don't really get what the problem is, they still sell basic feature phones for old people that don't like new technology.
Bud:
Many of the features in your list are only good as long as you are within a cell tower coverage, and the rest are labor intensive (too many menus/button push) compare to their classic counterparts.

Ecit: home automation controllers- you put yourself in the mercy of the vendor in the cloud as to when you are going to lose the service. GPS - eats the battery like there is no tomorrow. Good luck getting out of the woods before the battery is dead.
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