GO DUMB PHONES GO

Although smart phones are cool, I like my dumb flip phone with its teeny T9 keypad. There are a lot of reasons, but here’s my top three:

  1. A dumb phone will not surprise you. There won’t be a time that it runs out of storage because the only thing on it is a picture of my house. I won’t see a huge bill because it is impossible to go over data, or for that matter, use data. It will actually not freeze and lag! It will not reach a point that the phone crawls at the slowest possible speed. The battery will not die because no one is using it to play 3D games. It is simple, and simple is good.
  2. It is not a distraction. Angry Birds will not let beep and ding because the pigs are angry and somehow gravity was defied and it is giving you’re a space eagle (I think…). There won’t be pages and pages of games available at a single touch. You won’t get the urge to see a kitty cat meowing on YouTube, or if Miss. Piggy’s dress is better than Taylor Swift. Also, I won’t be wasting time looking at random things on the internet.
  3. IT IS A PHONE!!! The definition of a telephone from the Merriam Webster Dictionary: “an instrument for reproducing sounds at a distance; specifically: one in which sound is converted into electrical impulses for transmission (as by wire or radio waves)”. Now smart phone “a cell phone that includes additional software functions (as e-mail or an Internet browser)” I have my Mac and my iPod for the “additional software functions”. My phone is a TOOL to keep me safe and to be able to communicate conveniently. There isn’t anything more I would expect a phone to do than call and text. However people in this time and age thinks that phones need to be able to do everything. Several cellular companies in my area do not even carry dumb phones anymore. The companies who do carry dumb phones put them at the end.

…and that’s why I like my dumb Samsung flip phone.