I got the new rendition of the Nokia 8110 exactly to avoid what you describe. And generally speaking it's working.
Unfortunately KaiOS at this point is so buggy and partially so annoying that it's borderline unusable (for example, after a software udate it can't do umlauts, which is pretty bad for the German language region and there are literally dozens of such bugs and annoyances).
I'm still hanging in there, but the frustration level is so high that I'll probably need to switch phones. An idea, which I loath.
What I will do if there's just no other way I decided not to install any apps (except for the absolute minimum, i.e. banking), let alone games.
Another option would be to switch back to a seriously dumb phone, but the problem there is that I couldn't find any one that offers a 4G hot spot. And that would be a minimum requirement.
In addition to what you describe, and which I think is the most important reason to dislike smartphones, there's the privacy landmine to consider.
Unfortunately KaiOS at this point is so buggy and partially so annoying that it's borderline unusable (for example, after a software udate it can't do umlauts, which is pretty bad for the German language region and there are literally dozens of such bugs and annoyances).
I'm still hanging in there, but the frustration level is so high that I'll probably need to switch phones. An idea, which I loath.
What I will do if there's just no other way I decided not to install any apps (except for the absolute minimum, i.e. banking), let alone games.
Another option would be to switch back to a seriously dumb phone, but the problem there is that I couldn't find any one that offers a 4G hot spot. And that would be a minimum requirement.
In addition to what you describe, and which I think is the most important reason to dislike smartphones, there's the privacy landmine to consider.