I think I got my first smartphone when I was 23, I never use them for anything other than calling, youtube, and basic web browsing
My typing speed on a phone is something like 15 wpm, on a computer keyboard it's 110 wpm
The idea of using a smartphone for anything pleasurable (other than youtube) is totally foreign to me
I remember in high-school you'd basically know who the rich or fiscally irresponsible girls were because their parents bought them brand new razors/blackberrys/etc. Everyone else (like me) either had tracphones or nothing! That heuristic isn't as useful today.
I remember in high-school you’d basically know who the rich or fiscally irresponsible girls were because their parents bought them brand new razors/blackberrys/etc
You are between the ages of 30 and 34
Yeah, mine is just an MP3 player with a surveillance device attached
Yep, I was 24 in 2014 when I got my first smartphone. I still only use Hexbear and social media on an Arch Linux Laptop.
QR reading should be built into the default camera on most phones. on mine i have to wait a second before it appears.
As someone who's lived without a phone (IE Been Poor) the whole "Oh yeah just scan the QR code :) nope we're not even printing real menus anymore get fucked :)" thing bothers me so much. Obvious cost cutting measure that Covid let them pretend is legitimate, that also just so happens to keep Poors out of your restaurant.
there are absolutely places ive been to where they say they simply dont keep them on hand anymore
There was a QR code reader that worked for a long time, then one day it autoupdated to give you popup ads. The only way you'd know it was this app that caused them was if you knew that was the only recently installed/updated app.
There was a second way. The play store let you sort apps by "recently used". This app would prominently be the most recently used app because it did the popup ad as a background task. The "see recently used apps", one of the best ways for non-technical users to have agency over there own device, was removed shortly after.
Both Android and iPhone just allow you to use the camera app now. You just tap on the QR code and it shows the content/link and you can tap on the link to go to it.
It's the reason why the last couple of years it has taken off.
I actually just got my first smartphone ever.
I got a PinePhone. Runs linux.
So far, I am liking it.
I'm in my 40ies, and I got my first smart phone last year. In fact, it was also my first mobile phone. In fact, it was also pretty much my first phone in over 20 years.
I hate it.
touchscreens are an abomination
give me back my damn bUttons stev jobs!
According to my smartphone’s tracking I average around 8-9 hours per day using it, and that’s active screen time not even the times I’m just listening to podcasts.
I may have a problem.
Used to be. I actually pawned my smartphone awhile back in the midst of a drug addiction, so now im stuck with a trac phone.
i locked my phone down as hard as i could with grapheneos and only using foss apps from fdroid and also locked off my phones ability to use the gps, and also most of its other camera/microphone/whatever functions without asking me. probably doesnt actually do much but lets me pretend i at least have the slightest semblance of privacy
which in general means that doing anything much more than texting or basic web browsing or taking photos or podcasts (or looking at r*ddit, to my shame) is just way too fucking hard to get past all the barriers ive built for myself so i end up not doing it, and i end up looking like the most massive boomer to everyone around me, especially my partner who gleefully runs a million apps for every website and service imaginable
It can be the keyboard - to a point.
Membrane keyboards have a much faster response rate, but mechanical keyboards have a better response and feel.
