Alas here we are again, I am decided yet again to sell my kompakt. I will give you the main reason I decided to do this. To give anyone that is reading this background on me I have severe tech addiction, I struggle with ADHD , anxiety and smartphones were always a way to cope with both for me. Last night I was at my sons soccer game and I spent more time texting on the kompakt then I did watching his game. Now obviously this is case specific and I am not blaming the Kompakt for my actions. I have just realized for my specific condition, phones like the light phone 3, kompakt will not work for me. They are still shiny toys that are new and I end up using them more than I want to, Even today I was focusing on my work at the library where I am now and I keep getting pulled into text conversations because its just too easy for me to do. But like I said for me the moment I saw myself pulling my kompakt out constantly at my sons game I knew this is just not going to work for me. When I had the sunbeam flip phone this was literally never an issue. I know if I just can get past the 30 day return window for the sunbeam than I am stuck with it an I will keep using it because it is hard to resell it. So if anyone is looking for a Kompakt I am selling it for 360 american plus shipping. DM if interested.
I also keep realizing that I am in this constant loop of buying dumbphones because of my adhd it needs novelty, but I know the best thing for me is a phone that I hate to use, this limits my use with it. Less is more for me. That and like I have said before pulling out the flip phone is the ultimate *&^$&^ you lol. I just love that aspect of it. I really wish the Pure worked here consistently in Canada because honestly I would go back to it lol.
I know my friend @kirkmahoneyphd is a big sunbeam fan and although I am not a flip phone form factor guy when I watch my sons soccer game next week I want to be a present father and I can do that with a flip phone. I am just not able to do this with the light phone 3 or Kompakt as consitentely as I want to. Addiction I have realized through my studies in school now and my real life experience is not a reflection of me as a person it is something I need to work on daily and I know deep down for my specific situation I need a simple flip phone, what is good about the sunbeam is it does have waze which I love for directions and now syncs with google calendar, its all I need and I have always known this thats why this is literally probably the 8th time I am buying this phone lol. Just need to get past the 30 day return window. Once again nothing against Mudita I love this company still use their clock, I am hoping down the road one day they release a updated pure 2 I honestly would love that, but I am realistic that it is probably most likely not on the table.
Hey, I totally feel you. Not to interfere with your decision and thought process, to me it’s sometimes helpful to decide to leave the phone entirely at home - as long as the situation allows that (wifey wondering where I am is not an excuse to me lol). Can help sometimes as any phone in certain moments can be a distractor - maybe besides that one: Opis 60s mobile 4G (Black) - Opis Technology.
Yeah I do that when I can, during the week I have to have a phone on me so my kids can reach me from school, but like I said when I had the sunbeam I literally barely used the phone, there is to pull to it, its cumbersome to use so it has that friction I personally need in a phone. I also do like the size of the phone, very small, I think at my core I am dumb phone purest as much as I try to fight it lol. My adhd pulls me always back to the new shiny dumbphone whether its a light phone 3 or Kompakt. That is the battle I need to win, Stick with the phone I don’t like to use, it is the only way to cure myself from this constant buying and selling of dumbphones, It has become exhausting. I have been stuck in this loop literally for 4 years
Just out of curiosity, have you tried something tactile? A fidget toy for an example? May seem weird at first but for me it has worked miracles.
This is the humorous way to present the evolution of my job, but it’s the hard reality and it’s not funny anymore in 2025…
I developed a heavy smartphone addiction from spending 6+ hours of screen time during my work.
So this is what I am using now as a replacement. I am giving it just as an example and not trying to advertise a specific brand or something like that.
Usually I am clicking this thing tens of thousands of times in my workday and it helps me focus and miraculously stops my craving to take out my phone…
We have a lot in common. I used the Sunbeam Orchid for over a year and what you said is exactly true, I never pulled that thing out my pocket for fun. I could honestly say at the time that I had zero options to escape from wherever I was or whatever I was doing. My smartphone had always been a portal to get away, briefly, from whatever I was doing.
When I had the Sunbeam, I remember sitting in my car at Walmart waiting for my wife to get done grocery shopping, and I was sitting there watching people in the parking lot, bored out of my mind, Sunbeam in my pocket. But I distinctly remember thinking, “Man, I wouldn’t have it any other way. I love not having a piece of tech in my pocket that robs me of my peace.” And I felt that I would never again own a smartphone, that I was out of that world forever.
Last year I my son was in an auto accident (no injuries) and he called me to come help. I have to say, that Sunbeam made me feel my deficiencies, majorly. Enough so that I switched back to my locked down iPhone. Having the iPhone locked down with austere measures, as I call them, makes the phone a totally boring device. I locked it down to have even less than my Sunbeam Orchid had. Not even notes or music, just talk, text, and Google Maps. It also became a boring device as the months went on. But every few months a thought would go through my mind, “Why not just put a banking app on this phone, or maybe a hiking app with maps? What would be the harm of that?” And sometimes I would reset the phone, install the other apps, and ultimately regret it.
I now use the Light Phone 3. I almost hate the phone. I hate the form factor, texting is a nightmare, the reception is horrible compared with the iPhone or Kompakt. I purchased the Kompakt and tried it out for a day. It has great reception, WiFi calling works perfectly, but it does the same thing for me that it does for you–I find myself drawn to it, wanting to pick it up and use it. I’ve side loaded Waze and WhatsApp, but now I feel like I have a device that I tinker with. I have been on the fence for a week about the Kompakt, not wanting to get rid of it, maybe just letting it sit in the drawer until the software improves.
But then I read your comment and it just hits home with me. I need a phone that I don’t like, period. I mean, yes, I can like it in the same way that I like having a car with air conditioning, or I like my framing hammer that I used to build my shop and greenhouse. But I can’t have a phone that I idolize (if that’s not too strong of a word to use), that I look to for fulfillment, or happiness, or brief moments of joy. It has to be a device that does absolutely nothing for making me excited to use as a novelty or gadget. The Light Phone 3 is that phone, and boy I wish it was the Kompakt, but it’s the Light Phone 3. Yuck. I never even felt this way about my Sunbeam. It was boring, but I didn’t despise it. For some reason I despise this Light Phone 3. I don’t like the “ethos” approach to design. I want a phone that works so well and efficiently that when I need it I take it out of my pocket, use it quickly, and put it back in my pocket. Light has an approach that seems to purposefully insert friction so that you will use your phone less. But I find it’s in my hands more because I can’t use it efficiently. Kompakt seems to have a more practical approach, which I love.
Thanks for sharing your journey. I think to some people it can seem like a pretty wild ride. But the experience is real, the struggle is real. And I’m almost convinced the only way to be totally free is to do as you say, find a phone that you don’t like but that works.
Yeah what you are saying completely resonates with me. The kompakt when you get it you can sideload things, add remove, this just becomes something I was doing out of boredom and I hate that lol, I want complete PEACE. I did consider going back to the light phone 2 but not being able to see pics is not just doable for me. I am also looking at this phone , has uber and waze, I don’t use uber but I like the idea that if I am going downtown and need to get an uber I can:
This company is in canada and you can tell them what to put on the phone and lock anything you want locked
For me I would not put email on it. But again I look at this one and it seems like the shiny toy I would fiddle with, there is also the LG Classic flip, this can do what the sunbeam does but much cheaper:
Pen and paper. It always comes back to that 
I would strongly advice everybody to do some research on blue light (from screens and artificial lights) and effects of deprivation of natural light. Besides ruining our day/night cycle and quality of sleep it also drains and ruins natural dopamine - so not surprisingly most people end up with bunch of compulsive/addictive behaviors - trying to fill this imbalance - with tragic results.
There is software to help with that, for example:
Just purchased the Sunbeam F1 Aspen 
For how long ?
The only safe option is to ask Mudita to provide the frame of the Kompakt, and you insert small sheets of paper which you can write on. That is true minimalism
Looks great!
The best flip phone one can get in EU now is Nokia 2660 Flip I guess. Had it for a while, worked decently besides few glitches (I don’t remember a flawlessly working phone since Samsung Solid E2370).
You can take this to the bank, I won’t be buying the Kompakt or light phone 3 again, I guarantee it
Sorry to break it to you, but that’s just digital snake oil.
Software like this only makes your screen shine in a specific VISUAL color, it doesn’t know what screen you are using, what are it’s settings etc. and most importantly - your hardware still uses plenty of blue light while emitting color you perceive as yellow/ red.
Screen are RGB technology: it means that they are using mixture of 3 base colors to produce all other ones - they can only shine in red, green and blue.
For example:
Go to site like this one: https://rgbcolorpicker.com/
Type in: R: 240; G:180: B:180
You can see how much of blue and green you need to create color seen as warm pink. 
Start treating causes instead of effects. You can fix the phone issue but still your brain gonna look for it’s dopamine fix elsewhere - like unending loop - that can get waaay worse than tech obsession.
Does this really apply to f.lux? I have really bad experience with smartphone bluelight filters but f.lux on PC seemed flawless - telling by the way blue turns black and other colors are heavily affected.
That warm pink looks orange at 2300K.
Above 180 it turns pink/violet. With 1900K the difference is minimal.
With 1200K which I usually use after sunset, blue is the new black, Looks like f.lux is fiddling with RGB values that are sent for display.
True. I still waste quite a bit of time at work even though I locked out Youtube on it and I don’t log in to any social media. :x
Play with those color sliders on the website and you’ll see: there are some colors that only use red and blue, but every time screen produces lighter tone it comes from mixing light from blue leds. Also I don’t know enough about screen hardware to be sure that red and green leds don’t emit light in blue spectrum.
That’s why I invested in some blue light blocking glasses. But there is only few companies that are legit - with spectrometer tests etc.
Here’s pretty short explanation:
You are right in a way, whole screen color palette requires blue light component. Did you try f.lux specifically at all? Matter of fact, the lower you go with color temperature (3000->1900->1200 K) the darker the screen becomes, all white becomes orange etc.
It is technically possible to alter RGB values delivered to the GPU, seems to work fine on Windows, on Android it must require some sort of rooting because Twilight et co. was definitely not doing the job. Maybe filtering blue light is not technically accurate, it’s more about reducing blue subpixel intensity.
It still can have some backlight bleeding too though.
I’ve been offered bluelight lens for my glasses but after photochromic ones I decided I don’t want to alter how I percieve the world.
IMO on-screen filters for both monitors and mobile devices should be the best possible option. Now I remember, back in the 90s my parents had some kind of on-screen filter for their CRTs but I think it was some anti-UV sort of thing, definitely not blue-light (who would have thought of that at the time of MS-DOS and Windows 3.11? would be helpful for Norton Commander, though).
The other concern sounds legitimate, I hope someone already tested if R/G diodes emit bluelight. Might be the case of warm-white/ember LEDs that turn out to still produce some amount of bluelight you wouldn’t ever see in an incandescent bulb or a candle. That’s why I recently also got one of the last produced CRTs for my home computer, just in case. I don’t sit 2-4 hours a day in front of a PC, it’s more like 5-12…
But by the end of the day, curb screen time as much as possible and avoid using it 2-3 hours before going to bed. Even with a bluelight app, on-screen filter, or bluelight glasses, we could agree there are other benefits of such practice, right?
At soccer games, aren’t the dads and moms standing on the side chatting with each other anymore? Surely they’re not all glued to their phones?