the biggest advantage is the battery performance, If you are travelling trekking etc, the phone battery reliably can work for a week easily, no charging worries.
It is distractions free phone with just calls and SMS,
It is very robust device, very light weight and sturdy, I have dropped it from a height 4 floors and into a swimming pool and it still worked perfectly fine. The b/w display is high contrast making this the phone ideal phone in construction / industrial site, the modern day equivalent is the overpriced CAT android phone.[1]
I would pay good amount of money for a boxed one today. After few months( android or iOS) of usage I find the charge hardly lasts till the end of the day, and you are running around trying to find a charger, or lugging a battery pack.
Yes modern phones are computing device and consumes less power for what they do, however a mobile phone is a phone first, if I can't make calls at end of the day , what good are all the apps and features
To you; to me, it's a means to access the internet first.
But I still agree very strongly with your post. Smart phones have become this jack of all trades, master of none devices. So almost everyone hates how smart phones don't do well enough The One Thing they use it for the most.
Disabling data will make a big difference on smartphones. I usually use airplane mode for hiking (disabling it only when I need to check the weather or make a call) and have no trouble lasting a week, except in subzero temperatures.
the biggest advantage is the battery performance, If you are travelling trekking etc, the phone battery reliably can work for a week easily, no charging worries.
It is distractions free phone with just calls and SMS,
It is very robust device, very light weight and sturdy, I have dropped it from a height 4 floors and into a swimming pool and it still worked perfectly fine. The b/w display is high contrast making this the phone ideal phone in construction / industrial site, the modern day equivalent is the overpriced CAT android phone.[1]
I would pay good amount of money for a boxed one today. After few months( android or iOS) of usage I find the charge hardly lasts till the end of the day, and you are running around trying to find a charger, or lugging a battery pack.
Yes modern phones are computing device and consumes less power for what they do, however a mobile phone is a phone first, if I can't make calls at end of the day , what good are all the apps and features
[1] https://www.catphones.com/