sabrinathecat
Explorer
and of course, the "dumb" phone is more expensive than the "smart" phone.
I don't get this. I've been using Smartphones for ~15 years and I've never been a heavy user, all these years I've had the same number, use it for private and business use. I'm literally 24/7 available (as my phone is also used as my alarm clock) but have the understanding with everyone that they can call me at 5 in the morning and I'll pick up, but if it isn't important enough their number gets blocked permanently. Only had a problem with that once in 15 years. If you really don't want to be available, you can turn the bloody thing off...
To me the smartphone is the electronic equivalent of a swiss armyknife, usefull. That automatic 'suggestion' sounds annoying if it isn't a suggestion at all. I also really hate the automatic spell check in MS Word that thinks that it knows better... I misspelled something, alert me to it, don't change it by itself. That's the reason why I turn it off... Throwing a phone because you don't know how it works or gets on your nerves is just stupid, no excuse for that. Shees, if I threw everything that annoyed me, that would be a lot of broken hardware and people ;-)
It's 13 years actually: Siemens SL45 (2001), Smartphones are even older then that, Apple isn't new. Between the Siemens and my iPhone 4 I used a couple of different models with Windows Mobile/CE on them.
Why wouldn't you want a swiss army knife that doesn't take more room up than carrying a dumb phone...
That depends on the phone. My Galaxy S5 is effectively much bigger than my old dumbphone was. I could hope to carry my dumpphone in my front jeans pocket if I wanted. No way I'm doing that with my smartphone.