I bookmarked my frequently visited sites, some like Slack, don't work but Facebook, X, Instagram threads and TikTok do well. TikTok sort of does videos, do play but they're covered by the caption. The cursor is laggy and I can't log in or post anything. I can log in and scroll on Instagram but the interface is squished and that cursor is slow. Here too, okay, add to story what if it's terrible what if it's never uploads my friend did check it on her iPhone and the quality was rough oh my God, I'm so scared it's so bad do I leave that up? Yes, I kind of like, I kind of think it's viby viby isn't necessarily the word I'd use but I didn't feel like using that slow cursor to figure out how to delete it. There is also a YouTube app which was a little less laggy than the internet but still slow at times and because the display is so small and gets too dark to see the video at certain angles, I didn't use this app much either.

Now, I have to say, I am impressed that this little flip phone can run these sites at all but because they're slow, squished, and often limited in functionality, I didn't love being online on this phone but that did mean I was on it less which isn't a bad thing. I appreciate that this phone has Google Maps because I rely on my maps heavily but it doesn't indicate which direction I'm facing like my iPhone does see how as I'm spinning the iPhone has this little shadow showing me what direction I'm going in.

I missed that on the Nokia, but if you have a better sense of direction than me, this probably won't be an issue for you. This phone doesn't have turn by T, turn navigation, you have to press the upper right hand button to see the next direction and there's no voice navigation so I didn't drive anywhere new because again, I have a bad sense of direction not having voice navigation definitely would have been difficult for me long term.

I bought two albums and some of my current favorite songs put them on a Micro SD card and popped it into the phone to listen on the music app. This reminded me of buying music for my iPod so nostalgic. Now, halfway through the week, I did get tired of my songs but couldn't justify buying more yet and Spotify doesn't work on this phone so sometimes I'd listen on YouTube but as you know that wasn't my favorite app.

There's also FM radio. The battery life is solid on a busy day where I was navigating taking lots of photos posting to Instagram and listening to music on top of calling and texting I had 100% battery at 10:30 a.m. and 3% battery by 10:30 p.m. getting a full 12 hours of heavy use simulating how I'd use my iPhone isn't too shabby on more chill days where I'm really only using the phone to call and text, I can go a day and a half or two before needing to charge this phone.

Forced me not to Uber this was stressful when I was running late and would have been unsustainable long term because although I love to walk when I'm out at night I usually feel safest Ubering home but not Ubering for the week was good for my bank account. I'm also so used to Apple pay that I often left without my wallet, just went to go grab something from the store and totally forgot my wallet so I just grabbed my wallet.

I am running again for the second time very important purchase see like truly how could I go without this. This was was also probably good for my bank account because it gave me extra time to decide if I really needed to buy something. So, how was the digital detox to be honest very uncomfortable which I wasn't necessarily expecting.

I tested a minimalist phone called The Light phone 2 a few years ago and that video is linked on screen. I really liked how much more present I was without checking social media all the time and while I still enjoyed being more present with my friends while using the Nokia 2780 flip, the rest of the time I felt anxious.

I feel like I like my phone is like an adult pacifier yeah, and like I miss being able to go on Instagram totally and I feel like when I can check it on my computer it's like a de-stressor yeah, and I'm like what is wrong with me. Overall, using this flip phone has made me realize how much more attached I've become to my smartphone in the past few years which is a little concerning but maybe this digital detox thing will get easier over time.

Comment below if there are any minimal Tech products you want me to try next and make sure to hit like And subscribe for more, thank you so much for watching.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enI ditched my iPhone 15 Pro Max and spent a week with a Nokia flip phone to see if I could survive and maybe even Thrive without a smartphone in 2024 the 2000s are calling this is the Nokia 2780 flip it has that classic flip phone design we know and love with echo of the Nokia 2760 from the late 2000s plots newer features like Maps maybe this challenge will be easier than I thought step one was storing my iPhone in a hard-to-reach location it's done and this my friends is my new phone for the week the Nokia 2780 flip is $90 has 4G and runs on major carriers in mvnos like AT&T Verizon T-Mobile and boost in the US just put some little stickers on my flip phone because it only feels right you can call text go on YouTube use maps surf the web check your email take photos and listen to music there are also several utility apps and what would a Nokia phone be without snake but okay how well do all of these features work I'm shooting with John my mom says hi hello mother as cool as I think I look with this thing up to my ear I mainly used speaker phone do I sound clear saying hi from the Nokia 20 780 flip it doesn't sound like muffled at all okay that's good to know to hang up you can hit the end key or very dramatically flip the phone closed which I reserved for special occasions but do love by remember the T9 keyboard where you press the numbers with the letters you need and it guesses what word you want to be totally honest I didn't remember it because I had a T9 phone for like 6 months in fifth grade and then an iPhone from there on out but I did remember ttap texting where you press the numbers multiple times to compose a message letter by letter so I spent the week doing that which took forever as a result my texts were short and didn't have much personality no you're adding more or type this is why people sent like I know like TW letter TW letter messages yeah this is why we have LOL and JK it wasn't until shooting the b-roll for this video that my colleague John Kim taught me how to properly use T9 just type in the full word and try to just go through it and see if it gets every single word that you're trying to do it yeah this definitely speeds things up but it doesn't always get the word I'm looking for and it isn't as fast as typing on my iPhone of course so I'd still want to keep my text short but one unexpected perk of this keyboard is that because typing is a bit of a task I replied to texts faster to get it over with which is good because I am notoriously slow to text back and I was pleasantly surprised to find that I could send a pretty good selection of emojis and see the ones sent to me even if they weren't available on my phone shockingly this was my first time playing snake and while I'm not the best at it I get the hype I keep missing the Apple my fellow scen others Sean ABR and Faith of course had to play as well you're not supposed to hit the wall oh really oh you have to hold it down in the past you didn't have to hold it down you just so I keep your your that's in my day the snake was just like one pixel we had to pretend it was a snake and then he goes we had to take our word for it my roommate keeps saying they yes ified the snake they did there's also a store with more apps which I admittedly only looked at once but Shawn was very intrigued whoa name the vegetable free it takes longer to type it than to death God I've got it where the name of the vegetable is that a is that a leak is it yeah it's a leak very interesting stuff in the App Store I had a lot of fun with the camera on this phone it's 5 megapixels so it's very different from the 48 megapix camera on my iPhone 15 Pro Max in fact it's closer to an iPhone 4 camera from 2010 the shutter speed is slower than I'm used to so I often moved too fast not my best work it can also be hard to see what you're photographing because the display gets dark at certain angles Zoom shots are fuzzy and low light shots aren't very clear either although flash helps a bit but even these quote unquote imperfect photos have a nostalgic feel that made me like this camera and here is what made me love it with patience and good lighting I got some fairly high quality looking photos oh this one came out kind of cute yeah that one is kind of cute wait that one why is it giving iPhone 11 I even found a low light workaround I've mentioned this new MOA clip light before and this is further proof that it really takes your photos to the next level you know what I've been doing I've been you have to be careful because I really think it could break it look at that difference between no light flash and the clip light the last one's kind of giving iPhone 11 that being said the highest video resolution offered by the phone is 480x 720 so the quality isn't great you can't win them all this phone has Google and a browser app aptly called internet where I bookmarked my frequently visited sites some like slack don't work but Facebook X Instagram threads and Tik Tok do well Tik Tok sort of does videos do play but they're covered by the caption the cursor is laggy and I can't log in or post anything I can log in and scroll on Instagram but the interface is squished and that cursor is slow here too okay add to story what if it's terrible what if it never uploads my friend did check it on her iPhone and the quality was rough oh my God I'm so scared it's so bad do I leave that up yes I kind of like I kind of think it's viby viby isn't necessarily the word I'd use but I didn't feel like using that slow cursor to figure out how to delete it there is also a YouTube app which was a little less laggy than the internet but still slow at times and because the display is so small and gets too dark to see the video at certain angles I didn't use this app much either now I have to say I am impressed that this little flip phone can run these sites at all but because they're slow squished and often Limited in functionality I didn't love being online on this phone but that did mean I was on it less which isn't a bad thing I appreciate that this phone has Google Maps because I rely on my Ms heavily but it doesn't indicate which direction I'm facing like my iPhone does see how as I'm spinning the iPhone has this little Shadow showing me what direction I'm going in I missed that on the Nokia but if you have a better sense of direction than me this probably won't be an issue for you this phone doesn't have turn BYT turn navigation you have to press the upper right hand button to see the next Direction and there's no voice navigation so I didn't drive anywhere new because again I have a bad sense of direction not having voice navigation definitely would have been difficult for me long term I bought two albums and some of my current favorite songs put them on a Micro SD card and popped it into the phone to listen on the music app this reminded me of buying music for my iPod so nostalgic now halfway through the week I did get tired of my songs but couldn't justify buying more yet and Spotify doesn't work on this phone so sometimes I'd listen on YouTube but as you know that wasn't my favorite app there's also FM radio the battery life is solid on a busy day where I was navigating taking lots of photos posting to Instagram and listening to music on top of calling and texting I had 100% battery at 10:30 a.m. and 3% battery by 10:30 p.m. getting a full 12 hours of heavy use simulating how I'd use my iPhone isn't too shabby on more chill days where I'm really only using the phone to call and text I can go a day and a half or two before needing to charge this phone forced me not to Uber this was stressful when I was running late and would have been unsustainable long term because although I love to walk when I'm out at night I usually feel safest ubering home but not ubering for the week was good for my bank account I'm also so used to Apple pay that I often left without my wallet I just went to go grab something from the store and totally forgot my wallet so I just grabbed my wallet and I am running the aarin for the second time very important purchase secur like truly how could I go without this this was was also probably good for my bank account because it gave me extra time to decide if I really needed to buy something so how was the digital detox to be honest very uncomfortable which I wasn't necessarily expecting I tested a minimalist phone called The Light phone 2 a few years ago and that video is linked on screen I really liked how much more present I was without checking social media all the time and while I still enjoyed being more present with my friends while using the Nokia 2780 flip the rest of the time I felt anxious I feel like I like my phone is like an adult pacifier yeah and like I miss being able to go on Instagram totally and I feel like when I can check it on my computer it's like a de-stressor yeah and I'm like what is wrong with me overall using this flip phone has made me realize how much more attached I've become to my smartphone in the past few years which is a little concerning but maybe this digital detox thing will get easier over time comment below if there are any minimal Tech products you want me to try next and make sure to hit like And subscribe for more thank you so much for watchingI ditched my iPhone 15 Pro Max and spent a week with a Nokia flip phone to see if I could survive and maybe even Thrive without a smartphone in 2024 the 2000s are calling this is the Nokia 2780 flip it has that classic flip phone design we know and love with echo of the Nokia 2760 from the late 2000s plots newer features like Maps maybe this challenge will be easier than I thought step one was storing my iPhone in a hard-to-reach location it's done and this my friends is my new phone for the week the Nokia 2780 flip is $90 has 4G and runs on major carriers in mvnos like AT&T Verizon T-Mobile and boost in the US just put some little stickers on my flip phone because it only feels right you can call text go on YouTube use maps surf the web check your email take photos and listen to music there are also several utility apps and what would a Nokia phone be without snake but okay how well do all of these features work I'm shooting with John my mom says hi hello mother as cool as I think I look with this thing up to my ear I mainly used speaker phone do I sound clear saying hi from the Nokia 20 780 flip it doesn't sound like muffled at all okay that's good to know to hang up you can hit the end key or very dramatically flip the phone closed which I reserved for special occasions but do love by remember the T9 keyboard where you press the numbers with the letters you need and it guesses what word you want to be totally honest I didn't remember it because I had a T9 phone for like 6 months in fifth grade and then an iPhone from there on out but I did remember ttap texting where you press the numbers multiple times to compose a message letter by letter so I spent the week doing that which took forever as a result my texts were short and didn't have much personality no you're adding more or type this is why people sent like I know like TW letter TW letter messages yeah this is why we have LOL and JK it wasn't until shooting the b-roll for this video that my colleague John Kim taught me how to properly use T9 just type in the full word and try to just go through it and see if it gets every single word that you're trying to do it yeah this definitely speeds things up but it doesn't always get the word I'm looking for and it isn't as fast as typing on my iPhone of course so I'd still want to keep my text short but one unexpected perk of this keyboard is that because typing is a bit of a task I replied to texts faster to get it over with which is good because I am notoriously slow to text back and I was pleasantly surprised to find that I could send a pretty good selection of emojis and see the ones sent to me even if they weren't available on my phone shockingly this was my first time playing snake and while I'm not the best at it I get the hype I keep missing the Apple my fellow scen others Sean ABR and Faith of course had to play as well you're not supposed to hit the wall oh really oh you have to hold it down in the past you didn't have to hold it down you just so I keep your your that's in my day the snake was just like one pixel we had to pretend it was a snake and then he goes we had to take our word for it my roommate keeps saying they yes ified the snake they did there's also a store with more apps which I admittedly only looked at once but Shawn was very intrigued whoa name the vegetable free it takes longer to type it than to death God I've got it where the name of the vegetable is that a is that a leak is it yeah it's a leak very interesting stuff in the App Store I had a lot of fun with the camera on this phone it's 5 megapixels so it's very different from the 48 megapix camera on my iPhone 15 Pro Max in fact it's closer to an iPhone 4 camera from 2010 the shutter speed is slower than I'm used to so I often moved too fast not my best work it can also be hard to see what you're photographing because the display gets dark at certain angles Zoom shots are fuzzy and low light shots aren't very clear either although flash helps a bit but even these quote unquote imperfect photos have a nostalgic feel that made me like this camera and here is what made me love it with patience and good lighting I got some fairly high quality looking photos oh this one came out kind of cute yeah that one is kind of cute wait that one why is it giving iPhone 11 I even found a low light workaround I've mentioned this new MOA clip light before and this is further proof that it really takes your photos to the next level you know what I've been doing I've been you have to be careful because I really think it could break it look at that difference between no light flash and the clip light the last one's kind of giving iPhone 11 that being said the highest video resolution offered by the phone is 480x 720 so the quality isn't great you can't win them all this phone has Google and a browser app aptly called internet where I bookmarked my frequently visited sites some like slack don't work but Facebook X Instagram threads and Tik Tok do well Tik Tok sort of does videos do play but they're covered by the caption the cursor is laggy and I can't log in or post anything I can log in and scroll on Instagram but the interface is squished and that cursor is slow here too okay add to story what if it's terrible what if it never uploads my friend did check it on her iPhone and the quality was rough oh my God I'm so scared it's so bad do I leave that up yes I kind of like I kind of think it's viby viby isn't necessarily the word I'd use but I didn't feel like using that slow cursor to figure out how to delete it there is also a YouTube app which was a little less laggy than the internet but still slow at times and because the display is so small and gets too dark to see the video at certain angles I didn't use this app much either now I have to say I am impressed that this little flip phone can run these sites at all but because they're slow squished and often Limited in functionality I didn't love being online on this phone but that did mean I was on it less which isn't a bad thing I appreciate that this phone has Google Maps because I rely on my Ms heavily but it doesn't indicate which direction I'm facing like my iPhone does see how as I'm spinning the iPhone has this little Shadow showing me what direction I'm going in I missed that on the Nokia but if you have a better sense of direction than me this probably won't be an issue for you this phone doesn't have turn BYT turn navigation you have to press the upper right hand button to see the next Direction and there's no voice navigation so I didn't drive anywhere new because again I have a bad sense of direction not having voice navigation definitely would have been difficult for me long term I bought two albums and some of my current favorite songs put them on a Micro SD card and popped it into the phone to listen on the music app this reminded me of buying music for my iPod so nostalgic now halfway through the week I did get tired of my songs but couldn't justify buying more yet and Spotify doesn't work on this phone so sometimes I'd listen on YouTube but as you know that wasn't my favorite app there's also FM radio the battery life is solid on a busy day where I was navigating taking lots of photos posting to Instagram and listening to music on top of calling and texting I had 100% battery at 10:30 a.m. and 3% battery by 10:30 p.m. getting a full 12 hours of heavy use simulating how I'd use my iPhone isn't too shabby on more chill days where I'm really only using the phone to call and text I can go a day and a half or two before needing to charge this phone forced me not to Uber this was stressful when I was running late and would have been unsustainable long term because although I love to walk when I'm out at night I usually feel safest ubering home but not ubering for the week was good for my bank account I'm also so used to Apple pay that I often left without my wallet I just went to go grab something from the store and totally forgot my wallet so I just grabbed my wallet and I am running the aarin for the second time very important purchase secur like truly how could I go without this this was was also probably good for my bank account because it gave me extra time to decide if I really needed to buy something so how was the digital detox to be honest very uncomfortable which I wasn't necessarily expecting I tested a minimalist phone called The Light phone 2 a few years ago and that video is linked on screen I really liked how much more present I was without checking social media all the time and while I still enjoyed being more present with my friends while using the Nokia 2780 flip the rest of the time I felt anxious I feel like I like my phone is like an adult pacifier yeah and like I miss being able to go on Instagram totally and I feel like when I can check it on my computer it's like a de-stressor yeah and I'm like what is wrong with me overall using this flip phone has made me realize how much more attached I've become to my smartphone in the past few years which is a little concerning but maybe this digital detox thing will get easier over time comment below if there are any minimal Tech products you want me to try next and make sure to hit like And subscribe for more thank you so much for watching\n"