10 Reasons Your Dumb Phone Was Better Than a Smartphone

Most of us have smartphones. We Facebook and Snapchat and Instagram anywhereand anytime. Most of the time, we text people back immediately after getting a message. We take photos that rival those captured by standalone digital cameras. We debate the merits of Android vs. iOS, and we constantly look for new and exciting apps that keep us entertained and connected. We use our smartphones to help us complete all kinds of tasks with just a few clicks of a button.

The smartphone life sounds pretty great. And for many people, coque huawei p20 it is. Butsome people still buy dumb phones. Instead of a slick new iPhone or Android flagship, they carry around a flip phone or a slider phone. They eschew the convenience of a device coque samsung j3 that puts the internet in their pocket. For a variety of reasons including lower initial cost, better battery life, cheaper monthly plans, enhanced privacy, or coque autres galaxy samsung a distraction free lifestyle they choose a dumb phone instead of a smartphone.

Should you reallyshut off your smartphone and exchange it for the kind of phone you had in high school Probably not. After all, you miss out on tons of great apps, and on the ability to look up all kinds of information anytime you need it. But there are at least a few reasons why we wish we could go back to our flip phones. Read on to check out some of the reasons why we (not so secretly) think that your old dumb phone was better than a smartphone.

1. An unreliable phone was a good excuse not to respond to people

If you wanted a reason not to text or call somebody back, a feature phone was always a good excuse Darren McCollester/Getty Images

If you examine your smartphone habits, you probably find that you spend a lot of time keeping up coque samsung a20 with texts, calls, messages, and emails. Somebody always needs something. And when you have a fast and capable smartphone in your pocket, it feels like you always have coque samsung j4 to respond right away even when it probably not so critical that you do. Back in the days of dumb phones, messages weren treated with so much urgency. People didn expect you to respond to texts right away (not least because many of us had phones that were sometimes unreliable). And you often didn have the option coque personnalisees iphone of staying plugged in to your work email even when you were out of the office. Plus, a dumb phone made it possible to ignore somebody, at least for a little while.

2. coque samsung a50 With a dumb phone, you didn have toupdate Facebook, Instagram, and Snapchat 24/7

With a dumb phone, it would have been impossible to stay plugged in coque huawei mate to popular social networks all dayRomeo Gacad/Getty Images

Many people enjoy constantly updating their Facebook, or taking photo after photo to share on Instagram, or continuously adding new content to Snapchat. But for many others, the pressure to constantly coque samsung 1 maintain coque samsung s6 all of their social media profiles makes it feel too muchlike a job. That pressure only exists because of smartphones. (Do you remember when you had to wait until you were home on your computer to share that witty status update on Facebook) coque autres galaxy samsung We aren saying that we want to go back to a time when Instagram and Snapchat didn exist. But at least on occasion, we wouldn mind having phones that made it a coque samsung s6 coque huawei p30 little harder for everyone to be plugged in 24/7.

3. A dumb phone was less distracting than a smartphone

A dumb phone wasn nearly as distracting as a smartphone and all the apps on it David McNew/Getty Images

Smartphones are endlessly distracting. You can catch up on the news, or you can scroll through your favorite social network. You can play games, or you can browse the internet. Even if you hanging out with friends or in novel and beautiful surroundings, you can be distracted by your smartphone. A dumb phone, on the other hand, is much less distracting. Sure, there may be a couple of old schoolgames, and choosing the right ringtone definitely required some thought. But for the most part, a dumb phone coque samsung a5 won be much help if you looking for a distraction while you waiting in line or commuting via the subway.

4. Feature phones were easy to figure out

Modern smartphones can be pretty complicated to figure out. coques personnalisees iphone 5 5s se Feature phones were a lot simpler Sean Gallup/Getty Images

We venture to guess that thereisn a smartphone owner in the coque samsung j5 world who hasn had trouble locating the functionality or settings that they need. Smartphones are equipped with so many features and functions that it can be difficult to figure out where everything is and how everything works. Feature phones, on the other hand, were delightfully easy to figure out. You could discover everything you needed to coque iphone 8know about the phone by clicking around for 20 minutes. The major features were calling and texting, and any extra features were easy to discover (and unlikely to prompt any sort coque iphone 6 of questions or confusion).

5. Mostpeople have to charge their smartphones every night, and sometimes even during the day as well. But the last time you had a flip phone or a slider phone, you probably didn feel as closely tethered to your phone charger. You could forego charging your phone for days, perhaps even a week, and still have enough battery power to text your friends. A dumb phone can do less than a smartphone, of course. But it can do it for much longer without coque samsung j7a charge.

6. Phones were cheaper before smartphones came along

A feature phone would never cost as much as we pay for a smartphone today Toru Yamanaka/AFP/Getty Images

Sure, smartphones are becoming less and less expensive, but you never would have paid even close to the price of a smartphone to get a feature phone. Back in the heyday of slider phones and flip phones, almost all phones were sold as part of a two year contract. But even if you had to pay full price for one, your total wouldn come anywhere near the $600, $700, $800, or more that it costs to buy a high end smartphone these days. How would you have ever gotten your parents to buy you one if dumb phones had been coque huawei p8 that expensive

7. Dumb phones were less breakable than smartphones

A dumb phone could probably take a lot more abuse than the smartphone you have today ho/Ericsson/Getty Images

We love the big, bright screens on our smartphones. And we appreciate their thin and lightweight builds. But dumb phones were great because they were so hard to break. You could snap your phone open and closed without worrying that you damage it. You could drop it on the floor repeatedly and not come away with a broken screen. You could even use it in a thunderstorm and not worry about water damage. It pretty hard to carry something around all day, every day, without occasionally dropping or bumping it. And it was great that dumb phones were able to take the abuse a little bit better than smartphones.

8. Feature phones looked unique

Back in the days of dumb phones, phone makers worked to make their designs unique Stephen Shaver/Getty Images

Smartphones are great, but they all look extremely similar. Big screen, minimal buttons, thin build there just not that much variation in what big manufacturers are designing. But dumb phones often looked unique. There were slider phones and brick phones and flip phones. And manufacturers worked to make their coque huawei pro devices stand out. Many of the phones we wanted in the early 2000s looked unique and were actually pretty fun to play with. Plus, when you and your friends set your phones down on a table, you could tell at a glance whose was whose. Not so these days, when high end phones regardless of manufacturer look pretty much the same.

9. Dumb phones were less addictive than smartphones

Feature phones were less addictive than today smartphones, and less likely to impact your ability to think for yourself Chris Hondros/Getty Images..

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