Name: Smartphone detox with minimalist phones
Uploaded: 2018-05-10T03:02:01.000Z
Duration: 6 min 22 s
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- We've had smartphones for about 10 years

but between all the social media networks' notifications,

Now I have an iPhone 6 and it's a pretty good phone.

The problem is I spend a lot of time on it

scrolling through Twitter, Instagram and whatever else.

So to help me deal with my iPhone addiction,

I decided to play around with some more minimalist phones.

the Nokia 3310, the Punkt MP 01, and The Light Phone.

And I'm gonna head to Brooklyn's Prospect Park to see

This is the Jelly, a tiny little Android smartphone.

Unihertz, the creators, call it impossibly small,

First thing you'll notice about the Jelly

At three and a half inches in length, it fits into

the palm of my hand, costs $125, runs on Android 7,

has a 1.1 gigahertz processor, and has front and rear-facing

cameras that are eight and two megapixels,

The phone runs on 4G network and has Dual SIM cards.

Now, because of the thickness, a lot of people thought

it had a slide-out keyboard, which it doesn't.

But it does have a two and a half inch touchscreen

The Jelly is impossibly small and amazingly cute,

and there's just something cool about having the full

functionality of a smartphone in such a small package.

Scrolling through an Instagram Live video on such

With the screen so small it adds a level of friction

that we're not typically used to, so I found myself

was almost impossible and I kept making tons of mistakes.

In the end, I started texting less because I wanted

The Jelly's other big drawback is battery life.

Downloading just a few apps made my phone hot,

At 83% it told me I only had four hours of life left,

But if you really wanna disconnect, you might wanna

ditch your smartphone for a feature phone.

Nokia 3310 is one of the most iconic and popular phones

of all time, and in 2017, the company rereleased it

as part of its nostalgia-driven marketing push.

Now, the new phone benefits from a larger color screen

and a more bubbly design than its brick-like predecessor.

It has a two megapixel camera in the back

It comes with a classic 2002 era skeleton crew of apps

like a calculator, a calendar, and obviously Snake.

Unlike the Jelly, it has a pretty good battery life,

You'll notice the home screen has a couple of new additions

in Nokia's weird Web client that you have to navigate

It's so hard to use that eventually I just gave up,

Moving over to the Nokia also comes with another big shift

and that's going from a full keyboard to T9.

And if you're like me, you haven't used T9 in awhile,

but if you're trying to text less, it works.

T9ing is too slow to text-bomb, and eventually,

If you really wanna get intentional about minimalist phones,

you might wanna check out Punkt MP 01 phone.

Punkt means 'period' or 'stop' in German,

and it's a Swiss company that makes minimalist products.

A lot of times when people see the MP 01 for the first time,

It comes in three colors: brown, black, and white.

Gorilla Glass and a fiberglass reinforced body,

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Smartphone detox with minimalist phones

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