We Switched to Dumbphones So You Won't Have To

Marquez what is your daily screen time uh my average for last week is 2 hours and 45 minutes 2 hours 53 minutes 3 hours 40 minutes 1 hour 18 minutes 4 hours 52 minutes let's see let's see the YouTube Studio load is 3 hours It depends on whether I fell asleep on YouTube or not and 2 hours too, so 4 hours 45 minutes. My screen time yesterday was 7 hours and 11 minutes. I

have

a problem. We're on our phones, they're too accessible. We want to get rid of them, but. We don't entirely want to keep the good things about phones and there are many devices that can help us stop using our phones.

Whether they work remains to be seen. Look at him, he's so small. Look at it next to my watch like it's almost. the same size and your phone is already small this is a small iPhone but it's incredibly small so this is the Palm Phone this was an interesting idea Palm if you don't know was this PDA company that was extremely popular before phones existed smart something and then some engineers at it was $300 and you had to

have

a data plan and it was your second phone you have to decide when I'm going to bring this with me versus when I'm going to bring my other phone with me and you have to specifically figure out what limiting features you want to have the problem with this phone, you can install almost anything on it and that's my problem is that I wanted to use L apps but I was able to install exactly the same apps on this one and you couldn't help yourself, well how could you?

It's so cute, it's so small, it's a very cute image playing like the little Angry Birds, it's a great idea. I still think you could use self-control and not put social media apps on your phone, but yeah, what's stopping you? since installing Instagram on this, nothing great, how is the camera, it's actually pretty decent, the contrast I feel is really where it's like struggling with a dynamic range, it doesn't work at night, you literally can't see it at night, yeah , that's not a picture, but overall pretty decent, those are some good borbo picks. Also, Steph Curry is like the ambassador of the brand and has invested a lot in it.

They had a collar that you could wear where you would like to hang around your neck and he used to walk around. walking to Warriors games with him hanging from his neck dope, no, dope, dope, what's next, what the hell is even that, that's awesome, wait, did we design this or was it like a template somewhere where we made it Will Alex design? Shout out to Alex if you want. Link in description, you can print this yourself so you can stop using your phone, yes I like this, wait. Samsung should make this Mak, it doesn't open well.

The real question is: do you think this would be enough? Limit your screen time because I know I would just take this off and open it. I don't think I would take it off. That said this wouldn't limit my screen time. the perfect way when you're having lunch to set it up to watch YouTube, you can shore up YouTube. I do this at home, but I literally put my phone against my mug and then look at it on my kitchen table, it's not bad. it's pretty annoying although it would be annoying if you were trying to read the message like people were texting it's only worse because this is there like you can keep it close Joe NOPE no you dummy okay this is an iPhone, there is nothing stupid. about this, wait, just wait ooh, hey, okay, what is this?

They are widgets and you simply set the text size to super high. Okay, I guess there are guides on how to do this online if you go to the On the other screen there is an app called blank, you'll see how to set it up. Oh okay, how much are they trying to charge for this? You can pay $4 a month or a lifetime fee of $23. It's just a widget that you're paying $24 for. a widget and also like it's not fun, don't do it, we don't use our phones too much because they're too much fun, we use them too much because they put worms in our brain or something important that I was dealing with During this experiment, all my accounts had like two factors and stuff, so I need my MFA codes and all that in one app, so at least this you'll still have the things you need, but first instinct is your first look. the phone's not there, hey, let me click on something I'm not trying to do right now.

You totally should have put child locks on every guy I could. I could avoid this right away. I wouldn't use this, yes I do. I don't think I could need any more self-control if the goal for me is to limit screen time. I don't think this is going to do anything, this is just like a quick access, like I need to open this app right now, cool, cool, no. No, Adam and I also have a very detailed history with the Light phone. We've been trying to make a video about this phone, how to switch to it for x amount of days, years, years, were you able to use this around the world? over the weekend i used it a little mhm it's really frustrating it's really frustrating and it's not frustrating because of the ink since i love ink yeah that's the cool part yeah the music is a big deal tho yes, 1 gigabyte of internal memory is crazy, yes, yes. that's wild, it's like it's basically unusable for music like you can put, I don't know, an active playlist on there, maybe that's the only thing I can think of, like a couple of songs to keep you running and you can leave your telephone. at home, yes, but that's it, yes, someone who was about to do it, wrote a really great article about using this for a whole year, year after year, and had a better time than other people I had heard about me.

I feel like it's the deal. The deciding factor is the camera or the lack of a camera, really let's say I'm on a first date you know and I think I'm about to impress someone with my super sweet Light phone, like I'm offline, baby I'm like Yes I'm free Mark Zuckerberg has no control over me, you know? And then I get there and the menu is in a QR code. Oh, you're screwed, then I look like a big fool. Yes, I heard that the instructions have many. better recently so I used it yesterday. I don't have a SIM card, so I used Wi-Fi here.

I got the directions and then as I was leaving the parking lot it went into offline mode and actually took me to Costco perfectly fine with voice looking at it on the map it was completely useless because it's refreshing out of time and it's like it doesn't really work and then last night I was driving from Brooklyn to uptown New York City and I tried Do It Again and it completely failed. Oh, it's really like it didn't work at all, but I think it was because a lot of things happened quickly and I was in offline mode, so that whole thing was like there was too much delay. to react in time before losing turns.

I'm a big Google Maps girl so this could be a deal breaker for me if I can't look up something at any given time to see where it points to the exact location, yeah it's kind of useless. I don't give a damn about calendars. I don't use a calendar. Are you serious? Where is YouTube? There is no YouTube here. You don't use a calendar. What do I need a calendar for everything? What would you add to the Light? phone 3 plus USBC I would say USBC more storage more storage crappy camera uh a higher refresh rate I don't see I'm not even okay no I'm a little mad at the referee because writing on this was hard to write but I guess that's the point, although I don't want this to be a completely usable Super E used phone, yes, but if you text people, text, no, no, no, so I've been daily, not this one , I have been daily mine. this is the Palma e-book reader, quite new, you wouldn't think it because it looks like a smartphone, yes you know, you can use it like a Kindle, but the good thing about Palma books is that you can also do it with any other Android based one. things yeah it looks like an android phone try the camera oh my god I don't know if this is going to show up let's see if we can take a video of Mariah how much does it cost?

I think it's $280. Okay, which isn't bad, yeah, that's really good, it's an entry level Android phone, sure, it's obviously not going to be fast, it's pretty decent, like the fact that it's polarizing a bunch of ink and moving it around across the screen so quickly. Wow, I would 100% watch something like this. I could see why this would be annoying after a while, but for 280, the thing about Palama books is that it's not really a phone, yeah, oh, so you don't like making phone calls. no, but if it's just an android device, can I download signal and whatsapp and say yes?

I'm an iPhone guy. Everyone knows this about me at this point. I feel like I set up an airmail server in one of the Mac studios in the back of the office that receives all my airmails and then forwards them to have full iMessage on this device. I can react. I can send photos, but okay, ask, would this prevent you from using your phone? I do not know, I think so. I would use it for different things. I would use it for things that Inc is more geared towards, yes, like watching a YouTube video, it's going to be a bit annoying.

I definitely wouldn't see it as Tik Tok on this, no, um, it did exactly what it was supposed to do where I would take out my phone, perform the task that had entered my brain, and put it back in my pocket. It's a real pleasure to use as someone who used it as their phone for 3 days. I would go out with a group of people and take a photo of them with my phone and they would ask me to please take photos of me literally all night. My favorite part about this little camera is that it is SDR only, it will only do one. exposure per click so you don't get multiple exposure High dynamic range doesn't look like a phone looks like a camera it's like these super cool black and white images you shouldn't use this as a phone unless you're like me and you're incredibly patient and you literally have 3 or 4 days for it to work and if you go to Reddit and look at this, Palma's books, you will see tons of people asking for the exact same thing, mobile books.

Palma, so I really wish the books were an Android smartphone, but basically it needs to be connected to Wi-Fi, yeah, okay, even after saying all this, I don't know if I would do it every day. Well, wait, not now. I know if I would use it daily if it were a standalone device. I think I like him as a phone companion. It's interesting because there are certain things that are better on my iPhone. I think you are just a person who uses two phones, don't be scared. It can be a person with two phones. I felt like Michael Fiser all weekend, no, if we took different parts of all these dumb phones and made a Mega dumb phone, yeah, it would be perfect like the size of the Z flip with the screen. of this with similar things of the simplicity of a Palm phone like App Hub maybe one day there will be a perfect device, well this has been fun, very fun, we have other very interesting videos on the studio channel.

I just made a Video with Márquez where we talked about some phones that were canceled and why they were canceled. It was a fun trip down memory lane. Yeah, if you want to see other videos we made recently about other weird technologies, you should check out my kitchen. Last week's video is absolutely a success