I finally admit my old flip phone was better than my smartphone for calls

Back in 2008 I could drive through rural Vermont and hold a call on my Motorola RAZR without a single drop, but my current iPhone drops calls in my own living room. It took a road trip last summer where I missed three important calls in a row to really hit home how much we gave up for apps and cameras. Anyone else keep an old phone around just for making actual calls?

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thompson.christopher7d ago

Used to roll my eyes at people who talked about flip phones being better, but after reading this I gotta say you might be onto something. Was on a call with my brother last week and my phone dropped it three times in ten minutes, just sitting at my kitchen table. It's wild how we traded something as basic as reliable calls for all these extra features that half the time don't even work right. I get why people miss the old days when a phone was just a phone and actually did its one job well.

kevin_roberts416d ago

Doesn't it drive you crazy how we all just accepted that phones got worse at being phones? I remember driving through Pennsylvania back in 2010 with a cheap flip phone and never once lost a call, even on those winding mountain roads. Now I can't walk from my bedroom to the kitchen without my call cutting out and making me repeat myself. It's like they focused so hard on making phones smart they forgot the basic thing we bought them for. I'd trade my whole app collection for one solid call in my own backyard.