Where Frugality Meets Fitness
Where Frugality Meets Fitness
Where Frugality Meets Fitness
Where Frugality Meets Fitness
Dumbphones are simplified devices that strip away distractions and push back against the idea that more technology is always better. These posts look at real-world use, tradeoffs, and what it’s actually like to replace a smartphone with something far more limited.
If you’re interested in dramatically reducing your screen time, both the Light Phone III and Sunbeam F1 Pro can help you do that. Both are great dumbphone options, though I’ve started to call them anti-smartphones. […]
Light Phone III vs. Sunbeam F1 Pro: Which One Is Better? Read More »
This guide is for the roughly 5% of us who embrace dumphones, a.k.a. anti-smartphones. (And I’m reaching out to anyone who wants to give up their smartphone but might be a little afraid.) But let’s
The Dumbphone Guide: How to Beat Those Digital Gates Read More »
Where can you spend nearly one hour of your time with a large group of people and have nobody in the room check their phone? Not a gym. Not a grocery store. Certainly not a
One Public Space Where Phones Are Still Taboo Read More »
This past July was Frugalmatic’s four-year anniversary, and I’ve been meaning to write a retrospect post about some of my biggest feats and flops from the past four years. (Plus, I couldn’t pass up the
Frugalmatic After Four Years: Wins, Fails, and Lessons Learned Read More »
As someone who’s enjoyed using the original Sunbeam F1 phone the past couple years, I was curious whether the new F1 Pro would offer a noticeably different experience. In short, it does. The form factor
Sunbeam F1 Pro Review: The Best Dumbphone Upgrade? Read More »
If that device in your pocket is a dumb phone, you may wonder if carrying it makes you a “Luddite.” Being a Luddite is not a compliment, of course. It suggests you’re “behind the times.” Having
Lessons from the Luddites: How to Manage Digital Technology Read More »
Back in 2015, as sales of the new iPhone 6 boomed and Apple CEO Tim Cook declared his company had sold 74 million phones in just three months, Joe Hollier and Kaiwei Tang decided that
Kaiwei Tang Interview: Co-creator of the Light Phone III Read More »
As a flip-phone/dumb-phone user, I’ve grown frustrated lately with emergence of “gates” that make it difficult to access certain services without needing to use a smartphone. These gates, such as e-ticketing for sport events and
How to Navigate a Smartphone-First World Using a Dumbphone Read More »
If a single piece of technology could describe the 21st century, it would probably be the smartphone. It’s made life more convenient and exciting for millions of people. But there’s just one problem: This device
This Phone Is So Dumb, It’s Brilliant: Frugalmatic Zero G Read More »
In our smartphone-dominated world, it can be difficult to find a high-quality “dumb” phone. I know because, for nearly two years, I used a device that would often crash or “freeze up.” While feeling disappointed,
Sunbeam F1 Review: Ideal Phone for Digital Minimalist Read More »
