My iPhone screen cracked last night. It was remarkably unsettling, I didn't realize how much I'm used to an intact screen and my fingers free of glass shards. I stressed over a few options; replace the screen myself (way too difficult, I'd need a dust free environment which I don't have); send it in for replacement ($300 and I'd be phoneless for two weeks since I'm hours away from the nearest Apple Store); or get a flip phone. Wouldn't you know it, my boss has a few old dumb phones laying around and he offered me one so I'm going to switch over tonight. I've read a few articles of the Internet-enslaved extolling the benefits of trading out constant connectivity for a bare bones phone, and while I can imagine what they say to be true, I can't sift for truth through all their enthusiasm. What do you guys think?
My iPhone has been cracked to the point it is nearly unusuable for the past weekish or two. Meh. I could feel better about it by saying I am detaching from my phone, but the truth is I was kind of in the process of that already. Otherwise I wouldn't have been able to not care enough to get it fixed for what is probably really about two weeks. I think it depends a lot on who your friends are and how they phone.
It's hard to say. I've found myself to be a bit of a phone addict recently (the problem isn't recent; me noticing it is), and I've therefore taken to leaving my phone in the car when I'm out and about, especially, say, when I'm out to dinner with friends and family. I can't say that I don't really like the utility of an iPhone (because I definitely do), but I think I like having it half time instead of all the time. That said, I don't think my life would be vastly altered with a flip phone (except I really like looking at the traffic on Google Maps). For $300, I would definitely not get another iPhone.