“For better cameras” like… I don’t see it. Back in the mid 2010s and late 2010s before the bump trend iPhone, Google and Samsung had the best phone cameras, and both were flat and with decent digital zoom and stability (for a phone). If you look at the photo samples for back then and compare it with now the difference is almost imperceptible.
That ugly bump makes big phones even harder to use and weight more now, plus if you’re one of those who never liked using a cover now I bet you’re forced to use one because of the added vulnerability of the bump.
Edit mid 2010s to late 2010s (until the camera bump appears around 2018)
Yeah, I was going to look into that but ended up buying this one (which already comes with an unlocked bootlader yay!) I may still do some legwork on that for the Unihertz as I do like the form factor if the flip phone experiment doesn’t pan out.
That. is. Awesome. I’d have to see if anyone is selling them pre-assembed (or would custom make one for my phone model) as fabricating it is beyond my skillset, but I love the idea. My only hesitation with that is I’d want to find a phone that’s not overly tall since the KB would probably make it a bit unwieldy.
What flip phone do you use? I do still consiider the titan slim from time to time but I also really like the benefits of graphene os that I am now used to so not sure if I want to go back!
Your thoughts pretty much mirror mine, I think I could probably pull it off but it would be all new skills to me so I’m not sure how well it would actually come out. Finding someone to do it I thought about too but then the cost is ramping up and conaidering I don’t like paying more than £150 on a phone itself to then pay two thirds of that for a keyboard that is going to make an already large phone massive I just can’t justify it really.
There is also the FX tec which I’ve seen mixed reviews on but I think it is way over priced personally.
I got the Cat S22 Flip. Basically a low-end smartphone in a ruggedized flip phone form factor. Runs Android Go (stripped down version of regular Android).
Before starting my “30 day dumb phone” / digital detox experiment, I played with it to see what it could/would do. For the most part, I can do most of the same things as my regular smartphone. The nice thing is that, while I can do those things, I don’t want to. lol. It’s perfectly capable of browsing the web, running a Lemmy client, chatting via Matrix, etc but it’s just annoying enough that I don’t make a habit of it like I do with my regular smartphone. So everything can be there if I need it, but I don’t have the “itch” to spend all day scrolling on it.
After I played around, I reset it and then did the opposite: dumbed it down by disabling the browser, app store, etc. I replaced a few of the stock apps with better FOSS alternatives, but aside from one concession (my bank app), it doesn’t do anything my dumb phone from 2005 wouldn’t do (except hotspot which is, surprisingly, a common feature on contemporary ‘dumb’ phones).
Once this 30 day thing is up, I’m going to see where I go from there (go full dumb phone, stick with this but un-dumb it, or back to my regular smartphone).