87% of French people now have a smartphone, with more or less confirmed addictions. Wouldn’t the telephone function ultimately be enough? Some have chosen to go back by taking out their good old cell phone.
Succeed in getting off your so expensive smartphone, and swapping it for a basic model, which, as in the 2000s, is only used for making calls. Not so simple, for the addicts that we have become. “I have everything in it, I have my lessons, my notes”, said a student. A radical change, which did not frighten a journalist. Ultra connected, he wanted to wean himself off networks and make a gesture for the planet. Five months ago, he gave up his smartphone for a “dumbphone”, a “dumb phone” in English, a basic model.
Rethink your daily life
“It had clearly become a drug, it was really like smoking. I was addicted to social networks”, declares Jacques Tibéri, editor-in-chief of Low-Tech Journal. Getting off the smartphone means rethinking your daily life. From now on, when he goes to Paris, it’s an adventure. “I have my diary with the appointment, the phone number, a small notebook to take notes, the map of Paris”, explains Jacques Tibéri. No more GPS on his mobile, music or payment. He went back to reading in transport and now relishes this new disconnected life. On the networks too, Youtubers challenge themselves to test these old phones for a few weeks.
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