Quote:
Originally Posted by Solitaire1
To add to this: Some people simply don't want a smartphone. I lived for years with just a basic flip phone and it worked for me. It was only when my job required me to have a smartphone that I finally got one.
I strongly agree about the technical expertise issue. With my flip phone I could go through the Settings and have everything set in about 5 minutes. With my smartphone I had to work for hours in the Settings to get it to work the way that I needed (as an example, I had to work for about an hour to find a way to set it up where I could just tap a button rather than having to swipe it).
|
Hah! I was a smartphone holdout until about a month ago, when I finally caved. I enjoyed being a Luddite; I have never felt that I needed to be online all the time and people who constantly text just make me tired. But the workarounds finally got to be too inconvenient.
Quote:
Originally Posted by John F
I don't think a data plan is necessary (just use wifi).
|
But you have to be in a situation where you can access WiFi, which cuts you off from a lot of the reasons to have phone, much less a smart phone. Suppose you break down in the car, for example? (I've never been that successful using WiFi to make calls anyway.)
There was an article in the WaPo sometime last month, I think, about the new public toilets in DC. But, the point of the article, you needed a smartphone to access them. And what population most needs public toilets? The unhoused, of course.