‘While everyone carries a phone in their pocket with a thousand reasons to get distracted, I use a phone without apps, without social media, without distractions. Many would say I’m limited, but I say I’m free.’
From https://samueleamato.xyz/2025/06/04/why-i-use-a-dumbphone.html
I keep thinking about ditching my smartphone, but I never do.
Our’s not a healthy relationship, my iPhone 14’s and mine. It helps to chuck some apps, but I keep finding new ways to distract myself. Currently it’s Dutch news and Hacker News (where I found this, in June of last year, let’s be honest), before that it was Imgur and Vinted, and before that it was Reddit. I’ve owned e-ink devices but they kept dying on me, making them very expensive not-quite tablets.
The promise of a dumbphone is having more quiet time and being in the moment – but the moment is often awful, boring, or both. Books often can’t hold my attention anymore, and friends don’t come over as often as they did when I carried a dumbphone in the late 90s and early 2000s.
Anyway, it seems to be working for this guy.
You have to wonder how that site of his renders on his dumbphone though.