I have to say, I’m very surprised by Samsung’s turn around on getting my phone fixed. I sent it on the Tuesday, got a text on the Thursday, received the phone back on the Friday*.
My life’s work I had planned blogging about living without a smartphone has have been shorten to a short story. A little like my attention span to reality now I’m connected again.
* Eat that Craig David.
On the average morning I awaken to the sounds of my wife browsing Pinterest for the latest visual treats on her iPhone. Not being able to complete with such beauty- I generally resort to waking the brain up with some light tech news, checking emails, skimming RSS feeds and judging the great social waffle stream on my own device.
However, this morning was the first for 2yrs with no smartphone.
Little moments like this make me realise how addicted I have become to this evil device, and going cold turkey sucks.
I will be living the next 10 days without my Samsung S2, while it goes back to Samsung. Not sure if the next few days are going to be hellish or a real breath of fresh air.
So in the meantime I’m using this crap Samsung flip phone with a 3cm x 3cm screen…
Product features include:
Upcoming scenarios where I will miss the smartness…
Upcoming scenarios where I might enjoy dumbness…
I know we don’t adhere to a couple of these at work, but they do make sense…
Hannah Donovan and Matthew Ogle are the product and design powerhouse behind Last.fm and have continued their passion for building music products online with their hit startup This Is My Jam.
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Time for a change!
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