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Waiting when button phones will become the trend again

>>Moldot+(OP)
Since buying a larger-screen e-ink device, I have been wanting to go back to a dumb phone. But just a few features preclude this.

1. Dialing in the dumb phone. No dumb phones support CardDav syncing.

2. Very few dumb phones can function as wifi hotspots for the e-ink device.

3. Few dumb phones can record calls.

4. I forget what eight was for... seriously I had one or two other issues but I don't remember what they were.

>>Moldot+(OP)
Maybe I’m weird, but I’d sooner get rid of all my “real” computers and replace them with a typewriter (or… nothing) than ditch my smartphone. It does way too much useful stuff.

>>dotanc+rc
Always up for a good Femmes reference!

>>dotanc+rc
Android phones can't record calls either.

>>iancmc+mU
My current Samsung Note does.

>>iancmc+mU
Recording calls was possible on pretty much any Android phone until google killed the accessibility API in May 2022, since then at least Google and Samsung phones can still record calls, it's just disabled in some countries for legal reasons, but people then buy phones from other regions on ebay/other similar platforms. It's been a "thing" for years.

>>dotanc+yX
My Pixel 7 Pro does. But I have GrapheneOS, so maybe that's not a vanilla feature.

>>hotnfr+Us
Not weird compared to the general population I think but I would hope still a weird sentiment for the general HN readership.

>>oska+le3
I dunno—I can use a "real" computer to do geek stuff, but my phone does a whole hell of a lot more that's way, way more important to my everyday life, most of which a "real" computer would be worse at or isn't practically an alternative at all. I'd have to spend money and space (for other electronics) plus a bunch of time to replace what a smartphone does for me. Losing my "real" computers would do me practically no harm, by comparison (assuming we're not counting my employer's computer that they loan me so I can earn a paycheck—gotta have that, sure)