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Why I Use a Dumbphone in 2025 (and Why You Should Too)


gine living in 2025 without notifications, without constant updates. While everyone carries a phone in their pocket with a thousand reasons to get distracted, I use a phone without apps, without social media, without distractions.

With the rise of short-form content (TikTok, Instagram Shorts, YouTube Reels), it has become incredibly easy to damage our attention span. Nowadays, it’s incredibly hard to have a smartphone that truly keeps your activities private, especially with Google’s digital signature system making rooted devices unusable. There are many other benefits I didn’t go into, like improved sleep quality (blue light is harmful), durability and sturdiness, ease of repair, and so on.

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