43 days without a smartphone

Last year, moisture condensed in my phone during a monsoon trek and it stopped working. I couldn't decide on what phone to get next, and thought I'd wait for a while and ended up waiting for 43 days until I got another phone.

Here's some of my observations from the notes I made back then:

• I din't miss the smartphone.
• But going anywhere out was difficult, because I heavily depend on Google Maps.
• No WhatsApp, less noise.
• No snapchat -- caused me to use twitter more.
• Twitter, Messenger & Emails only on the computer.
• 2FA was a pain because I now had to requests for SMS.

People often talk about how we're all dependent on our phones. Now in my case I still had a T9 phone (dumb phone?) so I could make calls or send texts when I had to. But in general I din't miss my phone that much. It was just more of an inconvenience that anything else.