Have a love/hate relationship with your smartphone?
Gauging interest in a more present, less-distracting phone that still allows you to use necessary apps like your favorite Bible app, local banking app, or even that one app for your robot vacuum.
TL;DR - this is a post gauging interest in the Present Phone, a concept device that’s a non-distracting phone that still allows you to use the apps you need on a day to day basis, including your favorite faith tools.
You value your time with your family. With your community. With God.
Yet… you might be like me, finding yourself distracted by phone more than you’d like.
You’re not alone.
Nearly 57% of Americans consider themselves "mobile phone addicts"
On average, Americans spend 4 hours and 30 minutes per day on their smartphones, checking them 144 times daily
(This is up from 2 hours and 54 minutes per day in 2022.)
Some people just call it in quits on their smartphones and get what’s called a “dumbphone.” If you don’t know what that is, remember the old flip phones? Those kinds of phones.
Dumbphones can often bring more problems than solutions
There is a movement of people giving up their smartphones in exchange a dumbphone.
Less time being distracted and running on autopilot.
More time to be present with loved ones.
However, the world still keeps moving and adopting more and new technologies. Your bank is managed on an app. Your insurance is managed on an app. Your photo memories live on an app. Your community chats are on an app. Your Bible that's always with you lives on an app.
Apps are here to stay, and that's what makes unplugging and using a dumbphone so hard.
People often switch back to smartphones because of frustrations with the dumbphones, even though they still wish to be more present in life.
There has to be a way where there's a simplified, non-distracting phone that has all the apps you actually need on a day to day basis.
There will be absolutely no loop holes to getting distracting or nefarious content, nor being able to bypass the restrictions.
What if there was a phone that:
was affordable?
was aligned with your Christian beliefs and values?
was focused and guarded from distracting apps?
was impossible to stumble upon or find illicit or harmful content?
gave you the ability to install the non-distracting apps and tools that you need to function on a day to day basis?
like... your banking app
or your favorite Bible app
or that app you need for the Roomba vacuum to work
or a chat app like WhatsApp?
lets you be more present in society but not disconnected from society?
I know the person who has the existing technology to make this happen soon. It would not be a brand new, unseen device, but rather a Google Pixel that is paired down and coded to become a Present Phone. There will be absolutely no loop holes to getting distracting or nefarious content, nor being able to bypass the restrictions.
Showing your interest makes it where this phone can become a reality.
If you’re looking for something available today, I’d recommend checking out https://faith.tools/dumbphone-replacement