[FRIAM] Dumb phones?

[Gillian Densmore]

Sorry for the late follow up. The other reason I was asking was for digital
detoxing, but still being able to have a phone. Or do you know if their's
apps for that? Just thinking off the top of my head: something like the
iphone for on the regular. But then a profile or something on the android
that's minimal leaning.

On Sat, Dec 18, 2021 at 3:41 PM Gillian Densmore <gil.densmore at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Mmm. Good point. John Oliver Has talked about that. Something like 55-60%
> of all complaints are spam calls of any kind. I doubt tmobile is all that
> great at doing their side to keep bad guys off the line.
>
> On Sat, Dec 18, 2021 at 3:33 PM Tom Johnson <jtjohnson555 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> I doubt it's the phone that's the problem.  It's your carrier and/or the
>> fact that random numbers are dialed.  And if you ever answered one of those
>> calls, that puts you into a special class of Let's-Call-Him-Again, a
>> category that is sold and resold to other bad guys.
>> Tom
>>
>> On Sat, Dec 18, 2021 at 11:45 AM Gillian Densmore <gil.densmore at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> I've been thinking about my complaint about notification spam.
>>> I spent (to much) time looking for brick, or feature phones, or smart
>>> dumb phones. I know their  considered fairly retro and niche now.
>>>
>>> What are folks here experience with have a phone they swap to after X
>>> times of day to still phone a phone on, in full contact, but that phone
>>> just doesn't have the tech for notifications, or out right blocks them?
>>> While I doubt feature phones are a thing. Has anyone tried getting using
>>> some of these old school phones floating around. Nokia (for example) has
>>> their 3310 phones back.
>>>
>>> Someone mentioned in my other thread iphones are fantastic for keeping
>>> the spam sane. is iOS really that much better than android about
>>> robocalls,  'important' fill in the blank updates?
>>>
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