My phone is a bunch of tools, for me. It'd be hard to replace with a dumb phone, now that I'm so used to it.
- Flashlight (yeah, dumb phone could probably do this one, at least, if it has any camera at all, so a flash)
- Level (!)
- In a pinch, a tape measure (I don't trust it for anything precise, but it's fine for rough measurements)
- Tuner (as in, for musical instruments)
- Camera (video and still)
- Internet messenger (I barely use SMS, haven't for years, and despite being a relatively late adopter of the new wave of messengers like WhatsApp)
- Access point for my laptop when working but not in my (home) office.
- OTP 2FA thingy
- GPS/mapping device
- Music player that integrates wirelessly with my car stereo (that is, I can control it with my car stereo controls)
- TV remote for when my kids manage to lose all the physical remotes, which is often.
Probably some other stuff I'm forgetting right now.
I could lose the web browser relatively painlessly. And I don't do social shit on it (private messaging aside—no FB, Twitter, Insta, TikTok, none of that) so that doesn't matter. I don't game on it. Still, I'd need several other things to replace it.
- Flashlight (yeah, dumb phone could probably do this one, at least, if it has any camera at all, so a flash)
- Level (!)
- In a pinch, a tape measure (I don't trust it for anything precise, but it's fine for rough measurements)
- Tuner (as in, for musical instruments)
- Camera (video and still)
- Internet messenger (I barely use SMS, haven't for years, and despite being a relatively late adopter of the new wave of messengers like WhatsApp)
- Access point for my laptop when working but not in my (home) office.
- OTP 2FA thingy
- GPS/mapping device
- Music player that integrates wirelessly with my car stereo (that is, I can control it with my car stereo controls)
- TV remote for when my kids manage to lose all the physical remotes, which is often.
Probably some other stuff I'm forgetting right now.
I could lose the web browser relatively painlessly. And I don't do social shit on it (private messaging aside—no FB, Twitter, Insta, TikTok, none of that) so that doesn't matter. I don't game on it. Still, I'd need several other things to replace it.