[paolomaffei]

About 2 years ago I found myself once more checking my phone while on the toilet. I decided that was enough, I don't want to be an addict.

Since then, all my devices (phones, laptop) now stay in a specific room of the house: the office and they never leave

If I badly need GPS to get somewhere I take the dumbphone with me, the phone with the apps simply never leaves the office. But I'll look up the road before instead unless absolutely needed. If I need to meet someone I tell them be on time where we agreed to meet, I won't have a phone with me

It's scary to notice how as soon as there's a phone in my pocket the old addiction kicks up

[jxramos]

I had a tangible feel for this "addiction" one time when I let my phone run out of battery and I had it next to my laptop. Whenever there was a lull at work or something got hard and I needed a mental break I'd reach for my phone only to pick it up and find an unresponsive black screen. I must have picked it up some six times before it finally hit me how frequently I go to pick up that thing. Somehow the shock of rediscovering the off-state repeatedly and forgetting it really sunk the frequency of the formed habit into my mind. The habit was tangible in that moment.

[dot5xdev]

What dumbphone supports GPS directions?

[barbazoo]

> I take the dumbphone with me, the phone with the apps simply never leaves the office

Presumably they mean a smartphone without "the apps"

[vel0city]

For a long time Google supported a J2ME version of Google Maps that worked on loads of dumb phones