So I am about to leave on a short weekend trip with my family and I put my sim card in my Cat S22 flip because it is trade deadline day in the NHL and I wanted to get the latest updates etc, Literally within the hour I was back to old smartphones habits, checking this sports app mindlessly, using the browser this morning when I was bored, instead of reading and meditating my usual morning routine, even on this phone with a tiny screen all that behavior came back and honestly made me feel angry and just overall sad. I immediately this morning put my sim back in my light phone 2. Life honestly is just better without a smartphone. I know there are people that can control their use but addicts like me despite our best efforts go right back to behaviors that lower our happiness. I am literally counting down the days till the Kompakt comes out, life is just better when you are fully present in the moment
Right there with you. Iâm at the point now where smartphones make me angry when I have to use them. I never used to be this way until I made an honest commitment to switching. The best way I can describe is that I feel I have more space to breathe and think. Once you get a taste of that, you canât go back. People look at me funny when I tell them my phone doesnât have a browser. Iâll take being judged over being attached to a little glowing glass screen any day of the week.
One thing that has also started to really bother me is what i call âtapping glassâ. The feeling of mashing my fingers against glass (touchscreens) just feels inherently so wrong. We need to get back to buttons.
This is so true, no joke I feel physically ill using one but its amazing how much my brain CRAVES it, the addictive parts of my brain crave it but there are other parts that tell me to please put the damn thing away, I am about to leave for my short trip and I am so happy I am taking my light phone 2 with me
Smartphones are addictive by design and to combat it and restore awareness and presence is to battle against these companies that pour in billions to do this. The whole thing makes me angry and I hate them too. But it is encouraging to have the awareness that life is better in the present, and it takes tremendous time and effort to rebuild that in other offline ways. Cal Newportâs book talks about that. I still slip now and then and try to remind myself donât let perfect be the enemy of the good! Use it to remind myself of how much better being offline is. If youâve been doing something for many years, I would wager it would take quite a bit to rewire the brain to lessen those cravings. It sounds like youâve got it under control with a reset coming.
Iâm confused though, someone said the kompakt has internet and someone says it doesnât. If it has internet and bluetooth, youâre still online.
@calebsmum One thing Iâve learned in this niche market is that no phone is perfect and you cannot appease everyone. Iâm okay with my phone having a browser as long as its difficult to use. Sacrifices.
From my experience, the biggest time waster is Youtube⌠wonât seem usable with e-ink unless we are talking about using it for listening to some interviews.
Second one is blending work and life on one laptop, no phone will help with that in my case.
Iâd consider browser in Mudita for rare cases when you need to check something, look up a phone number to that restaurant you thought of approaching as the next stop on the road.
Its is It as BT, Wi Fi, 4G etc. Its basically a bit dumbed down but smartpone
@RasVoja the Punkt. MP02 had all that as well and you could only call, text, and use Signal. Thatâs it. At least the Kompakt has a kill switch- which the Punkt does not.
Thatâs a valid punkt. 
Mudita might be a sweet spot for many, at least for me. I just hope there will be no serious flaws that kept me changing dumbphones every few months.
Car navigation, banking, WhatsApp/Signal, MS authenticator (for work) sideloaded and Iâm more than happy.
Used to writing down routes for my trips when I was only having a dumbphone, that was fun and I could remember how to get there right away, but this approach lacked in emergency cases - I keep storing printed maps in my car, but I see one has to force himself to take that many steps back for the good of the brain.
Whatâs more important IMO is to have smooth experience with call quality, BT to car audio, tethering, robust user interface, and well-thought text input mechanics. Thatâs what kept me pushing myself back from ~$100 dumbphones (Nokia 8110 4G, 2660 Flip, 150 2023, Cat B40 and probably some more - nothing well done after Samsung Solid E2370 and B2710), and thatâs why I want to pay more for once. If Kompakt doesnât deliver, I will find a used old Solid and pray for 2G to stay up till I die.
Supporting a company of my fellow Poles is an icing on the cake.
@calebsmum It all depends what you refer to as âINTERNETâ
Are you looking to scroll & search the web, get email and do the things that you normally do on a smartphone, than NO- Mudita Kompakt is not that type of phone.
However, it does support data transfer/data connection for apps like Whatsapp, Signal etc. Additionally, it does connect to a network to get data for the weather app & if you want to send MMS (pictures through text) and in the future group messaging.
All those features NEED data connection. (or INTERNET connection).
Exactly, this phone is not a smartphone out of the box, if you want to make it a smartphone you can that choice is yours, I for one will not be doing that, life is just too damn good without a smartphone in it
@minimalist4life What do you think of this:
lol very interesting
Itâs an ANDROID desk phone 
That would be a swag like those old boomboxes you could carry on your shoulder and walk around blasting some music.
But seriously, I got so fed up with smartphones I was already talking with my ISP about a landline VoIP. Now, after seeing Mudita Kompakt, I put landline on hold.