I am still using a feature phone. The battery life is great, the feel of physical buttons is great, and the laughs I get from my friends whenever I pull it out of my pocket is especially great. They act as if they are looking at a living dinosaur. It goes well with my pocket watch.
The downside is that increasing number of services assume that you have a smart phone. Some of the restaurants no longer have physical menus, for example.
You know, I'm not too worried about it. It's not like I am against portable computers after all, and I'm more than happy to get funny looks for lugging a UMPC around if it's necessary to get the job done. It's just, the USB C port on my Pixel 6 which is less than a year old is already worn out and I'm tired of switching Hardware Overlays off so that it doesn't devolve into a flickery mess every few hours. I don't like the amount of things that I don't get a choice regarding, and in general, the lack of friction between me and wasting time is not really that great whereas if I really needed to do something like check my account balances the slight impediment of needing to pull out a UMPC or call a bank is not really a serious issue for me.
I have been back and forth between iPhone and Android. My last iPhone miraculously died out of nowhere, breaking so badly that even recovery mode was in a boot loop, and the software was even more depressing.
At this point, I'll just be the fucking weird guy with a Linux UMPC.
In other words, I'm happy to take your recommendations for dumb phones. :)
The downside is that increasing number of services assume that you have a smart phone. Some of the restaurants no longer have physical menus, for example.