Feature phone

There's a- another one called the Titan 2 Elite by a company called Unihertz.

And I think all of these, they sit somewhere in between smart and dumb phones, and maybe we should start calling them phones of average intelligence [laughs] 'cause they're not smartphones in the traditional iPhone sense or Android sense, but a lot of them run with a, a Android backend.

So TK, before I give my thoughts on what I'm going to do with my daughter, I have a question for you.

Uh, should parents adhere to the same technology boundaries they set for their children? I mean, if I decide that a smartphone isn't appropriate for Ella, should I also give up mine, or do you think the rules are different for adults and children? Are they fundamentally different?

People are so fried on notification that friction maxing is a whole new movement.

Dumbphone, social media blocking hardware, and now there's a slow messaging app.

[laughs] Some things are better when they're worse.

This is...

I have six kids and I am clinically ADD, so this needed to actually work, not just sound good on paper.

Over that time, I've tried dumb phones and eventually moved to a fully dumbified smartphone, and I thought I already knew which one would win and be the better option for my goals, but I was wrong.

Today, I'm going to walk you through the real pros and cons of both, what some of the overlap is, and what my ultimate verdict is on the perfect solution that can help you be more present in the life that God's given you.

So like I said, over the last seven years, I've tried a few different approaches.

That's right.

Let's do dumb phones.

Let's go back to vinyl, uh, the retro stuff in modern era.

Yep.