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Re:How to Quit Your Smartphone by throw4847285 on Monday February 05, 2024 @11:05AM (#39262634)
As an aside, I know for a fact that 4 (ridesharing) is possible without a smart phone... if you speak Yiddish. In Williamsburg, Brooklyn I saw an ad for an integration between flip phones and Lyft geared towards the Chasidic population many of whom believe that it is forbidden to own a smartphone but OK to have a flip phone. I haven't dug into the internal reasoning from a Jewish legal perspective, but from the outside, it's a fascinating place to draw the line.

I also find it fascinating from an engineering perspective. I wonder what other apps they've managed to integrate into the flip phone?

Re:How to Quit Your Smartphone by JohnFen on Monday February 05, 2024 @12:04PM (#39263510)
The problem I've found with flip phones is that they're still smartphones, complete with apps. Just very limited smartphones.

I want an actual dumbphone, but I can't find any on the market anywhere.

Re:How to Quit Your Smartphone by throw4847285 on Monday February 05, 2024 @12:24PM (#39263761)
Funnily enough, if you're shopping for a "kosher phone" you can actually choose between a smartphone with a limited number of apps to fit in with your religious strictures, or an actually bonafide dumb phone.

https://koshercell.org/collections/dumb-phones

Though there may be other features of a Kosher phone that don't make it a good choice for somebody who wants a dumb phone but doesn't live within a specific type of insular religious community. I'm not sure.

Re:How to Quit Your Smartphone by JohnFen on Monday February 05, 2024 @12:37PM (#39263943)
Oh, thank you! I will absolutely check this out.