덤폰: 스마트폰의 트렌디한 대안: 덤폰

### 뉴욕시에서 덤폰 체험하기
* 📱 미국인은 평균적으로 하루에 약 4시간을 휴대폰에 사용하는 반면, **리뷰어는 매일 8시간 25분 이상**을 사용합니다.
* 🤳 소셜 미디어와 같이 주의를 산만하게 하는 앱이 없는 덤폰은 **화면 사용 시간을 줄이고 정신 건강을 개선하는 방법**으로 인기를 얻고 있습니다.
* 💰 리뷰어는 **90달러에 덤폰을 구입**하고 서비스 요금으로 **55달러를 지불**했는데, 이는 **고급 스마트폰보다 훨씬 저렴한 대안**입니다.
* 🚕 Uber 및 Lyft와 같은 인기 앱이 부족하여 **내비게이션과 일상 업무를 더욱 어렵게** 만들었습니다.
* 📊 제한 사항에도 불구하고 리뷰어는 **Google 지도를 사용하여 탐색하고 기본적인 작업을 수행하는 것이 놀라울 정도로 쉽다**는 것을 알게 되었습니다.
* 📸 이 휴대폰의 카메라에는 셀카나 이모티콘과 같은 기능이 부족했지만 **리뷰어는 Y2K 미학이 돋보인다고 평가**했습니다.
* 😅 처음에는 참신한 점이 재미있었지만, 몇 시간이 지나자 **스마트폰의 편리함**이 그리워졌습니다.
* 🤔 리뷰어는 **덤폰이 일부 사람들에게 화면 시간을 줄이는 데 도움이 될 수 있지만**, 두 번째 휴대폰을 구입하지 않고도 이를 달성할 수 있는 다른 방법이 많다고 결론지었습니다.

미국인들은 평균 4시간 동안 휴대폰을 사용하지만, 화면 사용 시간을 줄이기 위해 덤폰을 사용하기도 합니다.

So the average American spends roughly four hours on their phone. For me, my daily average is about eight hours and 25 minutes. Not proud of it. Maybe a dumbphone today will help me pare down a little bit and find alternatives to using my phone for so long. But, I mean, I don't really see a big problem with it. OK, here's the tea about these dumbphones. Dumbphones are cellphones that have the ability to call, text, and they might even have GPS, without all of those time-wasters like social media and other distracting apps. The medical experts have linked screen time to lack of focus, depression, lack of sleep, and I know I find it hard to go to bed after scrolling TikTok for hours. Over the last few years, smartphone users are putting away their touch screens and exchanging them for flip phones in order to cut down on screen time and just be more present in the world.

Last week, we went and got a dumbphone ourselves, and I tried it out around New York City. The phone cost us about $90 to pick up at a nearby store, and getting service was around $55. But $145 isn't too bad for service and a new phone, especially considering smartphones today can range all the way up to $1,000 for the newest iPhone, over that, actually. When it comes to getting around the city without a car, Uber and Lyft are two of the most important ride-sharing apps, so I immediately searched for those when I got this phone. Unfortunately, I wasn't able to find them. There is a music app. I haven't connected to it yet. So I do think it'd be possible for me to listen to music on the subway. For me, I use Apple Music, so I wasn't really expecting to see an Apple Music app on a Nokia phone. But I looked out for my Spotify peeps.

and I was searching for Spotify and other apps that you could
maybe use, and no luck there. I did notice it has my
favorite game, Snake. I honestly had high expectations for it cutting down on my screen time. You know, I thought that I
was going to feel very healthy and empowered to not have
a smartphone in my face. Compared to other people out and about, I definitely noticed a lot
more folks on the train staring at their phone. Meanwhile, I, you know, the
only option I really had was to play Snake on my phone. Flip phones are kind of
having a comeback, you know? A little bit of Carrie
Sex and the City vibe. So I was excited to try out the phone and look a little cool and
different on the streets. But actually having it in my
hand, navigating New York, it was a lot easier than
I thought it would be. We are almost there, according to my map.

Navigation was a seamless transition for me. This phone uses Google Maps as a navigation system, so it's pretty standard. If you use Google Maps, it's really no change at all. Obviously, the typing aspect is a little tough when you're typing in where you want to go and having to click those buttons multiple times. But once you get started and you're on your route, it's really easy, really simple, and feels just like using an iPhone. So far, I feel like I'm spending just as much time on this phone, but it's probably because I'm navigating. We'll see once we sit down at the restaurant if I'm looking at it as much as I would my iPhone. Let's eat. OK, so we're here at Bubby's. They have a QR code menu. Let's see if we can scan it with this. I'm holding the phone up to the QR code, as you can see.

Doesn't look like anything's happening. I'm going to press the select button to see if anything happens. OK, no, it looks like
I just took a picture. I'm going to try to go to the app store and see if we can find
a QR code scanner app. OK, it looks like we found
some QR code reader options. Oh, wow, it works almost instantly. There we go. We have the Bubby's menu pulled up. It's kind of hard to
get through the website. It's definitely not as fast as my phone, being able to physically touch the screen, scroll, and get to what I want to get to. But, I mean, it works, sort of. There we go. It was so hard to navigate
the menu on this phone. I'm going to cheat a little
bit and get on my phone. So easy to scroll now, and then the words are so much bigger. Just going to text my
boyfriend really quick.

How do you do a space? Oh, zero, OK. What the heck? This seems very counterintuitive
as a way to text. It's a little bit different. There are definitely no emojis here or sending GIFs and memes
and things like that. My God, it's going to
take me like five minutes to send one text. So I am loyal to 0.5
selfies on my iPhone camera. I would definitely miss that feature, but I do love the fuzzy
Y2K digital camera look, and I feel like the flip phone kind of gives me a little bit of that. So I think I would learn to enjoy the camera quality on this phone, and, like, the quirkiness
of it a little bit. I mean, the buttons are
cute, they're aesthetic. I love the color of the phone. So far, everything is going pretty well. No disasters yet. The novelty of it was nice
for like the first hour,

but then, like, by hour like
three, I was kind of like, OK, I just want my buttons back. I am already back on Instagram. I mean, my daily use
average is eight hours. Did you guys really expect me to go the whole time without
pulling out my phone? I feel like I've missed so much already. Thank you. So usually with a great meal like this, my first instinct is to pull out my camera and snap a picture for my Instagram story. There's no Instagram story right now. So, I mean, we can take a picture just for memories maybe. Usually when I'm out
to dinner with friends, now would be the time
that we're using Venmo or Zelle or Cash App to
send each other money. On this phone, there is no Venmo, there's no Apple Pay or tap-to-pay, so we'll have to do it
the old-fashioned way and get my card out to pay the bill.

So I can't say I've seen this trend much out in the wild. I've seen it on TikTok. I've read about it in articles. I've even written about it myself. I think it's a trend right now for people who are trying to be different a little bit. I mean, good on you for trying to cut down on your screen time. Can't knock you for that at all. For me, spending $90 on a dumbphone didn't guarantee me more sleep or make me happier all of a sudden. And there are different ways that you can cut down on your screen time, if that's something that you need to do. There's a lot of reasons why someone might choose to switch to a dumbphone, and they're very valid. But in today's age, I think there are a lot of tools to cut down on smartphone usage without going and buying a second phone to do that. I just feel like it's more of a novelty.

This is something that would be a talking point when you're out and about, something people would ask you about and point at maybe and start a conversation. But for me, personally, the only pro I really had was it made me more present of my surrounding. Outside of that, everything else that I got from the phone, I could get with my iPhone, and even more. I'm like, it is cute though. If you want to look edgy and different. Hold on, I'm getting a call. I'm just kidding.

I Tried To Kill My Smartphone Addiction With A Dumb Phone. Here's How It Went. | Business Insider

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덤폰의 부상: 과도한 스크린 타임에 대한 해결책

미국인들은 평균적으로 하루 4시간 동안 휴대폰을 사용하지만, 일부 사람들은 화면 사용 시간을 줄이기 위해 덤폰으로 전환하고 있습니다.

덤폰은 소셜 미디어나 기타 방해가 되는 앱 없이 통화 및 문자 메시지와 같은 기본 기능을 제공하여 집중력과 정신 건강을 개선하는 데 도움을 줍니다.

스마트폰보다 훨씬 저렴한 가격의 덤폰은 보다 단순하고 현재에 집중하는 라이프스타일을 추구하는 사람들에게 인기 있는 선택이 되고 있습니다.

플립폰을 받아들이다: 뉴욕의 경험

뉴욕에서 플립폰을 사용하는 것은 예상보다 쉬웠고, 구글 지도를 사용한 내비게이션도 원활하게 작동했습니다.

스마트폰 앱이 없는 경험은 예상보다 어렵지 않았고, 기본적인 작업을 위한 휴대폰 사용은 아이폰과 비슷하게 느껴졌습니다.

이 개인은 플립폰의 부활을 알아차리고 스마트폰이 지배하는 세상에서 색다른 복고풍의 분위기를 받아들일 수 있다는 사실에 흥분했습니다.

버비의 메뉴에 액세스하려고 할 때 플립폰의 느리고 번거로운 탐색 기능으로 어려움을 겪었습니다.

이모티콘, GIF, 빠른 카메라 기능과 같은 최신 기능이 없어 문자를 보내거나 사진을 찍을 때 불편했습니다.

플립폰의 참신함과 미적 매력에도 불구하고 사용자는 결국 구식 기술에 적응하기 어려웠습니다.

'덤폰'으로의 전환이 미치는 영향

'덤폰'으로 전환하는 것은 스마트폰 사용 시간을 줄이려는 욕구에서 비롯된 것으로, 화면 시간을 줄이고 다른 사람이 되고자 하는 최근의 트렌드입니다.

이러한 트렌드에도 불구하고 '덤폰'을 사용한다고 해서 수면이나 행복감이 개선되는 것은 아니며, 현대에는 화면 사용 시간을 줄일 수 있는 다른 효과적인 도구가 있습니다.

스마트폰 사용량을 줄일 수 있는 다양한 대안이 존재하기 때문에 이러한 트렌드는 새로운 유행으로 여겨지고 있습니다.

독특한 휴대폰 디자인의 최소한의 이점

독특한 휴대폰 디자인은 주변 환경에 대한 사용자의 인지도를 높일 수 있지만 iPhone에 비해 추가적인 가치를 제공하지는 않습니다.

이 휴대폰의 주요 매력은 기능보다는 미적이고 엣지 있는 외관에 있을 수 있습니다.