Personal experience: I live 8 months without a smartphone

Kirill Chechkenov

Use phone with buttons and feels fine.

As I went to a regular phone

Just I want to say I'm not against smartphones and do not call to fight them. As such, the decision to abandon the smartphone I did not. It all started with the fact that in June last year, I lost my phone. At the time, lent smartphone at work, he soon had to return, then I had another one, but it broke.

Then I thought that it would be necessary to buy a new, but laziness was something to choose. I decided to hang himself in this state until the moment understand that can not go on.

If you begin to experience significant difficulties, then I go and buy a smartphone, but for now I will stay with push button. For 8 months of this moment to come.

Maybe someday it will happen, but I'm holding good.

Cons life without a smartphone

To call a taxi, it is necessary to call

I do not have a car, so I travel by public transport or taxi. With public transport everything is fine: the bus driver does not matter, do you have a smartphone or not. With a taxi difficult.

Applications are taught that do not need to call and talk to someone: do a couple of Taps, and comes a car. With them, it is more convenient to pay for the trip: no need to pay off with the taxi drivers, who sometimes does not happen surrender. If I now want to call a taxi, or have to ask friends with smartphones, or call yourself. Here it is often annoying.

I need a flash drive if you want to listen to music

With music in general it is not very convenient, because a smartphone is used more often and as a music player. But, first, you can just create a separate player, and secondly, even my phone can include music, you only need to plug the USB flash drive.

Philips Xenium E580 - is a convenient and reliable device for everyday use. With built-in player and FM-radio you can listen to your favorite music even day long. The phone supports memory cards up to 32 GB.

Difficult without maps

The worst thing I had to travel. If you are in a foreign city, especially in a foreign country, to navigate without a smartphone with the cards it is very difficult. When on vacation, I went for a walk alone, then I asked friends smartphone and went with him.

What I liked

I spend less time in social networks

I think the main thing I was spending time with the smartphone - is social networking. Even though I did not create the content out there, but still sometimes it happens that you come and look at the pictures or read who is doing what. It seems funny and silly habit, because we are all adults and rational people, but somehow addictive.

A few months later I realized that the free time I have is greater than previously thought. I began to read more and look around.

It so happened that I was not particularly to anyone and there is no need to share details of their lives. I'm not a popular blogger, I do not have an audience, which should be regularly to talk about fresh manicure and that today I think about the world. Perhaps it facilitates the rejection of the smartphone.

If you really want to see what's new in social networks, I open the laptop and look. However, this desire has never been so strong, that I had to run to a place with free Wi-Fi and hot flipping news feed.

I will not be distracted by useless chats

With the messengers do everything well. I appear online, but when I open the laptop, and nearby there is Wi-Fi. I love it because it frees up time that used to take reading is not always important messages.

In the evening, I check the chat rooms, but there is a great detail: then I close my laptop, and to me you can only get through.

I did not twitch for nothing

It is a special pleasure: in general I'm available, and if there will be something important, something with me easily contact. But almost no one does.

Now something like this happens that people call rarely, only for really urgent matters. During the time that I was without a smartphone, called me a few times.

I do not need to carry an external battery

Smartphone often let down and discharged at the wrong time, and with a push-button telephone until such was never. I charge it once a week or less, even stopped to notice it. When I see that the battery remains one division, I know that a couple of days the phone will stretch.

Perhaps the fact that I rarely use such a phone, a smart phone almost did not let out of the hands. When there is nothing to do, I got it without a purpose - and away we go: Player, browser, chat... I still catch myself on the fact that the remains of this habit.

I'm still using many familiar applications

Only in the web version. She, fortunately, there are almost all services that I usually use. For example, if you need to transfer the money, I do this in your account on the bank's website, and accounting of funds'm online financial tracker. At first it was not very comfortable, but gradually got used to.

What I have learned over 8 months without a smartphone

I realized that the main thing, which generally need a phone - it's SMS. Who is ubiquitous two-factor authentication and no message, I would not even be able to go to the private office of the bank, not to mention the ability to send money from one card to another. Plus I re-mastered the ancient art of writing text messages and send them to a limited number of people. Calling someone is extremely rare, and there is a laptop for chats.

It turned out that I do not particularly need a browser and even mobile Internet. What is really lacking is a normal player and probably a good camera.

In general, it is an interesting experiment that is worth spending. I'm not going to call on all smartphones and throw to live without them, but, for example, if you broke your phone, take it out of repair for a week later. Or simply put a smartphone and walk with push-button device.

Philips Xenium E580 - a phone that will not be distracted by unnecessary. Two SIM-cards sever the working relationship of the individual and camera with flash come in handy if you need to quickly take a picture of the documents, then to see them on the computer.

Appearance is concise - a classic phone with no moving parts. The rear cover is made of metal.

Philips Xenium E580 is perfect for the role of the main unit or the understudy to the case where the smartphone battery dies. With OTG-adapter device can be used as an external battery for the phone or wireless headphones.

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