How to get away from owning a smartphone (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 weeks ago by HurlingDurling@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world

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Hey everyone, I was entertaining the thought of going away from owning a smart phone.

I already have a modded ipod classic that I use as my main music player.

I also know how to use a paper map.

I also have the Microsoft authentication app for work (I could just use my phone on wifi mode for this)

The last issue I have is WhatsApp where I communicate with friends and family around the world.

Is there a way to use WhatsApp on a non-smart phone? Or should I just buy a pixel and install a secure rom?

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[-] clubb@lemmy.world 26 points 2 weeks ago

There are kaios phones, which are basically very weak smartphones (like 512 mb of ram weak) that run kaios, which is android. They perform poorly enough that you wouldn't want to use for social media, and you can run whatsapp on them

[-] Aatube@kbin.melroy.org 23 points 2 weeks ago

Correction: KaiOS is a Linux distro that only runs web apps. It descends from the botched Firefox OS project and uses Firefox's browser engine.

[-] clubb@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago

You're probably right, I've only used old nokias with symbian, so I wouldn't know.

[-] ptz@dubvee.org 9 points 2 weeks ago

KaiOS is more like "Firefox OS" than Android, but otherwise, yes.

I did a 30 day dumbphone challenge a few months ago. Was originally going to use a Nokia with KaiOS but wanted to be able to re-purpose it afterward so I went with an Android-powered flip phone.

[-] user224 5 points 2 weeks ago

Android-powered flip phone

That doesn't quite sound as a dumbphone to me.

[-] ptz@dubvee.org 3 points 2 weeks ago

I disabled pretty much everything and dumbed it down for the 30 days to nothing more than what a modern "dumb" phone would do.

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