Trying to decrease dependency on smart phone

Sup Forums I'm thinking of picking up a flip phone (LG Exalt LTE, pic related) in an attempt to regress dependency on my smart phone (Nexus 6). I just see where tech is headed and I'd like to slow down, or turn around, and see if it's the right move. I don't think I can just get rid of my all my smart phone features so I chose the LG Exalt LTE because it seems like a good stepping stone backwards. Highest concern is group text messaging and Google maps. I believe this phone can handle group texts and has a simple browser for emergencies. Thoughts?

Why not just uninstall apps that you're wasting time on for no reason. There's plenty of logical reasons to use a smart phone. Treat it as a tool.

>brew phone
>google maps

Are you retarded?
Ever heard of VZ navigator? You gonna pay monthly to have a far shittier gps service?
also
>group texting is a concern
>better start using T9 to text again.

Stop being a fucking faggot and use your phone less.
Install a launcher and only put basic features on your home page and treat it like a jitterbug.

Baffling you would pay $170 for a piece of garbage phone

I'm interested in where you think tech is heading. Elaborate please spare no detail.

Why would its direction wants you to stop using smartphones?

Ive been off my nexus 6p for a few months now after a few past attempts. First I installed a google free custom rom and then deleted the browser so I wasn't able to install anything. After a week of instinctual checking and I was finally all but cured. I definitely don't miss it and I don't find myself bored and fidgety all the time either. Didn't cost me a dime either. I'm a contract cuck so I guess I'll just keep the phone until that expires then I'm done.
An actual computer will always be better for almost every task. Phone's can be remotely activated to track you and listen to your conversations.

>Phone's can be remotely activated to track you and listen to your conversations.

Because of the underlining proprietary code in the hardware
The proprietary blobs that you cant touch?

You really think that a brew phone is less of a surveillance risk than an android phone?

Clueless

I mean if you'd read my post you'd see I'm not the OP

I've done this. Something always seems to creep in and grab my attention.

I have heard of vz navigator. Would not pay extra for it. Would use simple browser. T9 is fine. The concern is receiving texts. Again I have a launcher, but it's too easy to get suckered into something. I don't have to use that phone but it's the only one I found that was between a smart phone and dumb phone.

I just don't think the general public has a fighting chance vs the power of a smart phone. I recently received an ad that basically used my wife and dog to sell me a product. Smart phones are so intrusive that they are literally taking my reality and using it to sell me items and make decisions. I admit I'm weak willed but better off than most. I cant imagine what it will be 15 years from now.

You are just as retarded as OP though

Maybe so. I'd say more paranoid than retarded but the key difference is that I'm switching to phoneless and he's going with a fliphone

>Would use simple browser.

I ran a dumbphone for a few months running my verizon contract out recently. I bought a GSM phone and couldnt use it on verizon, my phone was trash.

The browsers dont work on 75% of websites anymore.

I dont understand how anyone who leaves the house could live without a phone. If nothing else than for emergencies

What is your preference for someone to communicate with you if you are phone less?

Valid point.
Maybe an email or a message in a chat program

Shit. I mean that's ok as that's the direction of like to head, but it's a big leap to go with it a browser.

I mean we used to this all the time. People are around to help.

Yeah, and there used to be payphones and landlines at every business.
When was the last time you let someone borrow your expensive smartphone?
The culture has changed, you think someone is going to waste their time fucking around with you because you refuse to have a phone?

I hope you are an old senile lady, because you are going to have a tough time otherwise.
But its all moot if you dont leave your dwelling in the first place.

Give yourself some time to self reflect if you have any.

I'm also trying to do something similar to OP.

Is there any phone that preferably has an LTE radio with a hotspot that doesn't drain the battery exceptionally quick?

Not one fucking human being on earth gives a shit about your phone calls, get the fuck over yourself.

Take control then. The answer is to install a custom android ROM, use only the gapps you find essential, or none at all, and start finding ways to harden your internet persona so that way either one of two things happen: you stop receiving ads targeted so intrusively, or you become acutely aware of where your areas of exposure to ads are so that way you know what to ignore. Both are preferable to constant inundation.

then go outside

I've been trying to figure this out as well, OP.

Right now, my best guess is getting a mobile hotspot, and using whatever computer type thing is around. Could still get calls over VOIP and such. It's not a perfect solution by any means, but I'm playing with the idea.

what exactly are you trying to avoid? I have no idea from reading your post what you dislike about smartphones

I use LG phones because they have Tracfone service so I don't drain tons of money just to occasionally text people; clamshell form factor increases durability of phone

If I need Google Maps I copy instructions looked up from my laptop before my departure. Your phone is a phone, watch, notepad, and an alarm clock and nothing more

are you literally a virgin

yes

You may also want to try things like getting an old smartphone, like, something with pre-kitkat Android so you're limited on what you can do, or, if in the states because I have no clue about outside that, get a super cheap prepaid phone that's on your carrier and just slap your sim card in it.
It helped with me, I got a $10 Alcatel ideal, and it was decent and had lollipop, but the hardware and screen were so limited, I could do that I normally do, but I didn't want to as much because the meh display and anemic, but usable, performance.

Just get a dedicated GPS device

>limited on what you can do
like reading PDFs? I'm confused what one could be limited one other than surfing the web and reading a book

Lots of apps no longer support old versions of Android.
And must phones that have older versions of Android are kinda a drag to use today, so it'd likely discourage using it as much.