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[–] 18 points 2 years ago (3 children)

This is just judgemental and stupid. If you are easily distracted not using a smartphone outside business hours is hugely beneficial.

I use a lumia 550, but REALLY I would prefer an old school phone like the w800i, but a good k750/w800/k800 is rare and expensive at this point and pretty likely to fail. (I have 2g here). So the lumia it is.

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    I mean this depends on your viewpoint. Yes it is my off-hours daily. (I have to have a smartphone when working)

    It can:

    • Call and text Edit: this IS a 4g device, and has support for VoLTE, so it has modern call quality. Most feature phones you can buy suck as phones.
    • Play a bunch of games
    • Has a pretty good MP3 player (also can connect to modern bluetooth devices (!!!!))
    • Has a camera of completely reasonable quality
    • It can display pictures, play videos, view all sorts of documents. (Ebooks .docs, xlsx-es, ppt-s)
    • Even the maps work (although who knows for how long)
    • Has microSD XC support

    So it basically does what my w800i does, but in a way newer phone. In my view it does everything a modern device does, except for all the doomscrolly bits.

    So yeah, if you need a weekend phone, picking up a lumia makes a whole lot of sense in my view.

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