NY Magazine: My week with a flip phone

[LiberalElite]

http://nymag.com/thecut/2014/10/my-week-with-a-flip-phone.html

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“Oh, is that an iPhone 6?” someone asks. Two-thirds of the dinner party turns to look at the girl who’s just taken her phone out to check a message. “Can I hold it?” someone else asks. “Does it really bend when you sit?” “Man, that’s huge.” “How’s the camera? I hear it’s the best camera.”

The girl passes it around with a shrug and offers a few low-key Luddite excuses for her embrace of new and exciting technology. “I didn’t even want one, really,” she says. “My other screen was just so cracked. So I thought, If I have to get a new phone, why not?”

Another woman turns to me. “I’m just, like, so not into technology,” she says, just loudly enough. “I still have an iPhone 4! And I don’t even load music on it.” I ask her what she does on long walks or the subway.

“I just look at the world. I mean, God, can’t people just do that anymore?”
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[orleans]

1. what a great line:

“I just look at the world. I mean, God, can’t people just do that anymore?”


apparently many of them can't.

grocery store today--a three year old was sitting in the cart, happily content, ignoring the sights & sounds of the people around her as she played a game on her mom's phone. & oddly, (or maybe not), i did not feel that was necessarily a good thing.

on edit: i still have a flip phone. wouldn't trade it for any of the new crap.

[GGJohn]

2. Same here, I have a flip phone also,

I don't need all that fancy technology for a phone, all I need a cell phone for is to make, ready for it? PHONE CALLS!!!!!!

[orleans]

3. yep. me too. (i don't even text! gasp!!) n/t

[Populist_Prole]

4. +1

My "ancient" 3 y/o flip phone makes and takes phone calls with the best of them, can even take a photo in a pinch. No, it's not text friendly but I rarely if ever text and talk on the thing to the tune of 150 hours a month at most.

You know what I like most about it? Two things.

It's compact and smooth, like a well-worn bar of soap, and it's very unobtrusive in the front pocket, which it slips in and out of with ease

I have to charge the thing like once every 3 weeks or so....as opposed to the smart-phone junkies I work with who need to charge theirs like every 38 minutes and hog up all the outlets.

[Skittles]

6. yup

I am not anti-technology, I am just not willing to pay for it and see no real need for it......do I REALLY need to know where I've seen the actor I'm seeing on TV before RIGHT NOW? F***, I watch smart phone users and think to myself, I don't want to be like them.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

5. While I have an Iphone now, if somehow I were forced to go back to a dumb flip phone.....

....I honestly wouldn't care.

Yes, I use the Iphone for looking at Facebook and the net when I'm bored somewhere, it takes good pictures and it's easier to text.

But I don't need any of that in my life, and if that were taken away from me, I'd be just as happy. No big loss.

[NJCher]

7. haha, I one-upped all of you

I don't even have a cell phone! Not a flip phone, nuttin'!




Cher

p.s. I've had a flip phone in the past; never had a smartphone

[Jenoch]

8. I read about half the article

but I found it to be boring as hell. I have a four year old flip phone. I have an 8 gig SD card in it to use it as an iPod. I also bought an extra battery for it on-line for about $4. I don't want or need a smartphone. I also have a foir year old iPod Touch that provides me with enough portable internet access.

[NJCher]

9. Never knew you could put music on a flip phone

I have a four-year old LG; if I can find it, I may try your suggestion. My iPod just went kaput. I've been using my Nook as a substitute, but will want something a little more portable.



Cher

[Jenoch]

11. The Verizon Wireless CDM8975 is the model I have.

It's the only flip phone that I know of that has an SD slot in it to expand the memory. They don't make it anymore. I doubt if your LG has this feature.

[MrScorpio]

10. Love my flip phone

I'm writing this on an iPod touch.

[tazkcmo]

12. I have a cell phone

I leave it home when I go out.