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[–] Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works 70 points 9 months ago (7 children)

NGL if you have a flip phone now, you're either a contract killer, a drug dealer and or a stage 5 weirdo.

[–] ddkman@lemm.ee 17 points 9 months ago (2 children)

This is just judgemental and stupid. If you are easily distracted not using a smartphone outside business hours is hugely beneficial.

I use a lumia 550, but REALLY I would prefer an old school phone like the w800i, but a good k750/w800/k800 is rare and expensive at this point and pretty likely to fail. (I have 2g here). So the lumia it is.

[–] thesorehead@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago
[–] ToxicWaste@lemm.ee 16 points 9 months ago

Friend of mine bought her first smart phone about a year ago. She just didn't need any of the functions on a smartphone and was happier with her flip phone: pretty much infinite battery, near indestructible, does communicate just ok.

Only reason she bought a smart phone is to download some group chat clients. Since she broke up with her BF, we additionally had to write her on SMS. So she made it a bit easier for us.

[–] Rosco@sh.itjust.works 8 points 9 months ago (2 children)

I've seen doctors use them as work phone, like a modern pager.

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 21 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Yeah and they dispense drugs.

[–] Rosco@sh.itjust.works 2 points 9 months ago

I miss the Nokia 3310's tramadol dispenser, man

[–] spiderman@ani.social 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

they use it not to get distracted by work, anon isn't like that.

[–] Rosco@sh.itjust.works 9 points 9 months ago

No, they use them because the battery lasts for ages and they're very reliable. They still have modern smartphones for personal use. And nothing wrong with that, the main use for a phone should be communicating with others, if Anon can get away with only SMS and regular calls, good for him.

[–] LaunchesKayaks@lemmy.world 8 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Or an old person. My grandparents have flip phones lol

[–] jabathekek@sopuli.xyz 10 points 9 months ago

Old people are de-facto stage five weirdos.

[–] doctorcrimson@lemmy.today 5 points 9 months ago

Or maybe just broke, but then it's a little odd to by pursuing more than a 2 year degree without a stable living situation.

[–] Asafum@feddit.nl 1 points 9 months ago

I only bought a smartphone because I was getting into the HVAC field and I wanted to have access to the Internet to help with diagnostics, if it wasn't for that job I might still just have an old flip phone lol

Or you wanna get away from the distractions of modern smartphones.

Because phone bad.