• Don't fear the flip phone: My year of living archaically gave me back m

    From Bill Horne@21:1/5 to All on Sun Oct 30 19:22:37 2022
    "Do you have it ironically?" a woman new to Brooklyn asked about my
    distinctly not-smart phone

    By Randyn Charles Bartholomew

    In the early summer of last year, after I'd gone into a few stores
    that didn't have anything dumb enough, a T-Mobile rep located a
    Kyocera flip phone somewhere in their shop's back room. I don't think
    he had sold this model to someone under 60 before. Once he gave up
    trying to upsell me, he seemed amused. Even before the SIM card was
    in, flipping the new device open and closed brought back memories of
    how visceral, how tactile, it was to end calls with a snap. No more
    dabbing the screen with my thumb.

    https://www.salon.com/2022/10/29/dont-fear-the-flip-phone-my-year-of-living-archaically-gave-me-back-more-than-i-lost/

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