“Meadow gives you some apps along with calls and texts, but don’t plan on having a big contact list.”
It limits you to 12 contacts.
The premise–a mostly dumb phone with some access to music and navigation only–isn’t bad but the execution is. I don’t want to be locked into some very specific apps in my semi-dumb phone. The article also makes this good point:
The deal becomes even less appealing when you consider that you can just, you know, buy an actual dumb phone for around $50 if you’re really that hellbent on taking a break from TikTok.
All of these people buying dumb phones instead of just downloading a text launcher on their phone and calling it a day. Like I’m not about to go waste money on a dumb phone when I can (1) set up a text based launcher and (2) uninstall Instagram. I have a perfectly good Samsung, and I’ve switched to using it more as a tool than a source of dopamine.
Too many people fall for the hype of these objects bc it’s easier than taking accountability, and easier than taking the initiative to do something on your own.
I’m not sure what you mean by text launcher. Do you mean like a custom launcher that only displays text and not icons?
Yeah, sorry, I could have worded that better. I use o launcher pro (but the free version works great). There are others, that’s just the one I use. No icons, no notification badges, nada. I set my phone to grayscale unless I’m taking a photo.
Oh, no notification badges sounds heavenly. I don’t consider myself addicted to my phone but I do get twitchy if I see any dots or anything.
If you’re on iOS you can disable the notification badges.
I turn off notifications for every device I have, other than things like text messages.
I don’t know how people can stand all the badges and stuff.
you had me up to the point where you own a Samsung…lol
Oh no! I bought a phone before I knew everything there is to know about how wretched Google is, and how deep the surveillance state runs! The horror! Let me just waste a $1k purchase!