We Switched to Dumbphones So You Won't Have To

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1. screen time of 26 minute average per day I'm not even joking

2. Love seeing @LifeOfRiza here

3. I wonder what they would do with a windows phone if they still existed?

4. 1GB for music is just fine,I just looked it up and 1GB of music is 18 hours !!!
   you don't need that much bit-rate for music files if you're just using simple microphones.

5. 15 to 16 hours average screen time here. Screen time doesn't tell the whole story though. I have mostly gotten out of the habit of doom scrolling and realized that shorts are… detrimental to my mental state, lol. It's perfectly healthy to have long-form content like podcasts, reviews, and video essays on in the background while getting something productive done.

6. Book Palma…? More like my iphone on a color filter….

7. I don't understand why the Nokia feature phones are not considered as the option for a replacement for a smartphone. They have features like Maps, Gpay, music, a camera, and a decent operating system.

8. ummmmmm…….12 hours 47 minutes

9. fuck… i had 10 hours and 5 minutes last tuesday

10. while the zflip is in no way a dumbphone, I have found that i use my phone less because of the outside screen. Sometimes i will open my phone just to look at my calendar and find myself going through tiktok instead and an hour later going "why did I open my phone again?" but with the outside screen i do less of that.

11. What about the e-ink Hi-sense?

12. 12 hours screen time here

13. All of Mariah's takeaways are hilarious! She's not wrong, if you CAN install smartphone apps, you will at somepoint.

14. Nobody in this video actually wants to switch to a dumb phone lol

15. conclusion: we want less screen time, but we want a fully usable phone and it should have all the features we use everyday all the day.

16. Did you just change the title? Why?

17. Hisense has a e-ink phone

18. i have around 30 minutes average on my phone
    …
    about 12 hours on my pc

19. 10 hours 1 minute. Mostly YouTube

20. Shoutout @internetshaquille !!!

21. Just get a keypad normal phone non touch

22. I think Maria was onto something with the perfect dumb phone idea. This would be mine:
    -Flip phone with physical buttons (maybe the option of full qwerty for most productivity or just num pad so I can go back to T9 texting)
    -Z-flip front display size but really good e-ink like the Boox, touchscreen for app compatibility
    -Cellular and GPS
    -Full android app support so I can use Google Maps, Spotify, Strava, and occasionally a web browser (QR menu is a good reason why)
    -Decent-ish camera
    -Crappy enough internals so playing games or social media is bad but not too crappy so texting and calling works good and the phone is overall responsive

23. I thought this was legit about DUMB flip phones…

24. I am so glad that Ellis and Mariah are together again! They truly are the best comedy duo!

25. I think 7 hours is my average.

26. 0:24 – Mariah "My screen time yesterday was 7 hours and 11 minutes". 3 and 1/2 of it on Maps.

27. Just get over it. It doesn’t fucking kill you to have a high screen-time… Enjoy your damn life.

28. A smartphone is a pocket tablet so it's just a slice of your larger screen time problem.

29. I wonder if there is a dumbphone which “mirrors” your iPhone or android phone but with only a few features.

30. I thought David was UP TALKING a lot? But this is a nightmare? Everyone up talks? Maker it stop please?

31. Reducing smartphone usage is most effective when compared to a sense of calm after the storm. You may see a tornado take your house, but what you gain is a clean slate to start over and rebuild your foundation the way you want to, not the way modern technology tells you to.

32. Why you gotta fire shots at Michael in this?

33. 0:27 Not a problem because it's only maps

34. TCL nxtpaper is the perfect, its perfect for reading & good enough to watch videos

35. If you and others couldn't scan that qr code and walked away loosing them business that business would not have qr codes

36. Honestly the Defactor phone has the best potential if they just updated the specs a bit

    Better Camera
    Better Battery (if needed)
    Better storage
    Better refresh rate
    Allow for data (if that's not already a thing)
    & For existing apps to work better (and for ones I mention below that might not already be available)

    Then continue to only have apps like Email, Google Maps, texting, calling, video calling, calculator, calendar, clock, files, notes & photo gallery

    However the most interesting to me is the Boox Palma just not sure if I'd be able to handle everything in black n white every day & I'd definitely not want to watch stuff on this for long periods of time which is it's whole purpose & very much succeeds in that department (& shouldn't even have stuff like YT & Tiktok even available anyways) but no native calling & texting is rough as none of my friends use any other texting app other then the main one

    I'd also like for at least Snapchat & FB Messenger (I don't need FB itself) available on one of those devices strictly because that's how I mainly communicate with alot of friends & family members (I barely ever text so)

37. There is a full e-ink phone, looks good by the reviews online, it's the Hisense A9

38. I can mail you with the screen shot – embarrassingly 9 hr 14 min avg in one of the weeks

39. Mannnn my screen time average last week was 9 1/2 – 11 1/2 hours

40. screen time of 11hours average per day

41. should try the wisephone from techless. was hoping to see it.

42. 1.5hr average mobile screen time…. but probably like 13-17 hours on my computer.

43. How do you guys have such low screen times mine's 13hr 19

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