Life without a smart phone

[LWolf]

189. I got one last fall.

I don't use it enough to justify the minimum data charge.

I don't use it for email; haven't even figured out how to use the email feature. I think it uses gmail, not my regular email. I don't need to have more than one to check.

I don't text or tweet. I didn't even include texting in the scrooge-like plan I chose. People can text me, but I won't be texting them back.

I don't spend any more time on the phone talking than I did before, and that's about 200 minutes a month or less.

I HATE swiping. Instead of simply pressing a button to do what I want, I have to swipe, which sometimes works and sometimes doesn't, and scroll, which is always scrolling too far past what I need or acting like I pushed a button on something I don't want when I'm trying to scroll.

Then there's the keypad; I'm a touch typist, and trying to hunt and peck on virtual keys so tiny that I'm constantly hitting the wrong ones is aggravating.

I've tried to use it to log on to the internet to do something a few times. The screen is so small not much fits on it, and it's hard to read. I can't remember my passwords for various sites; they are at home in my hard-copy phone book, and my desk top "remembers" them.

The only things I really like about it are the news and weather app and the navigation app. I don't know that they are worth the minimum monthly data plan.