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What would stop you from switching to a flip phone (or dumbphone) in 2025? (tim.kicker.dev)

submitted 1 day ago by tim@feddit.org to c/technology@lemmy.world

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I’ve been using a flip phone as my daily driver for a while now. The smartphone is still around, but it mostly sits in a drawer until bureaucracy or banking apps force me to use it.

For me, the benefits are clear: less distraction, more focus, better sleep. But I know for many people it’s not so easy. Essential apps, social pressure, work requirements… these are real blockers.

I’d like to start a discussion (almost like an informal poll):

If you thought about switching, what’s the single biggest thing that holds you back?
Is it banking? Messaging? Maps? Something else?

I’m genuinely curious because if we can identify the main pain points, maybe it’s possible to work on solutions or even start a small project around it.

So: what would need to change for you to actually give a flip phone a try?

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[–] atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 day ago (4 children)

I highly recommend just getting a real camera. The pictures I took with my camera 11 years ago are still better quality than an iPhone can manage today. Modern cameras are far far better.

[–] GraniteM@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago (3 children)

But then I start to feel like

this guy, with the "real" camera and the phone camera, but the phone camera is the one I've most consistently got on me, because I can't lug a whole additional piece of hardware around in a camera bag, meanwhile the phone camera pictures are grainy and shitty, and I'd just as soon have a Pixel in my pocket at all times that can take fairly good pictures at all times.

[–] atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Fair enough, though modern cameras are much smaller:

Dimensions of a recent Sony mirrorless camera, shown without lens.

[–] kazzz7420@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

this won't fit into a pocket though.

maybe you can reasonably throw into a handbag. but it quickly became a logistical nightmare, with how you're essentially stuck with cheap/kit lens (to make it small enough) and humidity is also a deal breaker.

also, would you want to abuse a not-cheap APS-C camera that way? I wouldn't lol

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