re: Flip phone era > Smart phone era

Smart phones have made millions of people look stupid, but the immediate information available anytime is damn nice.

Bring back that Nokia brick

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Like everything else in the world: responsible people use smartphones responsibly; irresponsible people do not.

I'll keep my smartphone; you can all go back to T9 texting if you want

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I renewed my vows with my smartphone on Saturday.

I was driving from Milwaukee to Minneapolis, and I got outside Eau Claire on the interstate, and my alternator gave up the ghost.

Within 10 minutes, I had a tow truck coming to my dropped pin and had found a shop open on Saturday and had coordinated the repair. They had checked the book time and verified the part was available and was on hold. The tow truck driver showed up in 30 minutes and was dropping my car at the shop in under 50 mins. The shop had my car in and verified my diagnosis in about 15 minutes. From the time my car died to the time I started up and left the repair shop was a total of 2 hours and 3 minutes. In the flip phone era there is about a 90% chance I would not have gotten out of Eau Claire by lunchtime on Monday.

I will take smartphones every day the fact that people spend all day on them is not my problem. My friends and close family do not, as a rule, and it is never obnoxious; they usually only respond to a text from friends or family and take a call from a close family member and that is rare.

Had a hard time looking at tits in HD every time I go take a shite back in the flip phone era

There was a sweet spot before social media took over when I was able to use my phone (2005 blackberry was my first) to tether internet and do real work from wherever but before everyone was working from home and posting bullshite everywhere about everything. I had a phone camera on a flip phone just before that.
Digital camera. Communicate and work mobile. But little of today’s BS (I had to come on here for that haha)

I miss when your mom would send me these


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Flip phone era > Smart phone era

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I think my phone is slowly starting to crap out on me, and I am seriously considering going backwards in tech and getting a phone that basically texts and makes calls for my next one, just to help myself unplug a little bit. Not sure if I will pull the trigger on it or not, or what options there are for that, if any...but it's been on my mind recently since my phone started getting worse.

When I hear of flip phones I think of my dad. He's 79 and had this military grade phone that he loved. Doesn't have it anymore because my mom thought it was a good idea to get him a smartphone. He hates it

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I feel the same way about Bluetooth.

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Why?

Bluetooth is a godsend for people who work out, or do a lot of working outdoors.

When I'm running, working out or mowing the yard, I'm listening to music or podcasts on my Bluetooth sport earbuds. No need to worry about corded earbuds any longer.