It was indestructible
Throw your old Nokia against a wall 822 times? Not a scratch. Drop your Nexus 4 onto a carpeted surface from a height of two inches? Cracks all over the glass!
Your battery never died
Forgot to charge your dumbphone overnight? No problem. Forgot to bring your smartphone charger with you to work? Have fun hitting 23% battery life by lunchtime!
You could text with your eyes closed
Texting in meetings, in class, with gloves on, while driving…all a million times easier with T9.
Autocorrect didn’t exist
Of course, incredibly funny autocorrect fails also didn’t exist.
You used to know where you were
… where you were going. You know, without opening Maps every three seconds.
It always worked
It didn’t matter if it was freezing cold or raining outside, your dumbphone always made phone calls sent texts like it was supposed to. But if you look at your smartphone wrong, it freezes immediately then reboots.
Flipping open your phone was pretty cool
us, built-in screen protection!
It was cheap easy to replace
Okay, it was still way more expensive than it needed to be. But $150 was totally doable, while $800 is…not.
You were aware of your surroundings
Because your phone made calls, sent texts, …that’s it. No distractions! Or, well, fewer distractions!
You used to be a good conversationalist
And now you’re…well…not.
No front-facing camera
And thus, no selfies.
You were the smart one…
…not your phone. Remember when you used to have arguments without pulling up at every turn? Or when you used to eat a meal without Instagramming a single photo of it, not once? Yep.
