>I was saying that it is very impractical to drive without a smartphone
Dude, I think you should really question this. I've been smartphone free for over a year. It's... easy. In fact, easier than having a smartphone in many ways!
So strange how quickly our society became psychologically chained to these blipping bleeping distracting infernal machines.
I've sometimes considered going back to a flip phone as a daily driver. I've settled instead for treating the smartphone as a tool rather than a lifestyle. If I'm not using it for navigation, location gets turned off. I don't do discussion forums on it, general web surfing is right out, and anything from Facebook got ripped out when I bought it (with one thing that couldn't be removed getting disabled).
A side benefit is that I get 2-3 days' life out of my battery and still have about 30% left when I plug it in.
Dude, I think you should really question this. I've been smartphone free for over a year. It's... easy. In fact, easier than having a smartphone in many ways!
So strange how quickly our society became psychologically chained to these blipping bleeping distracting infernal machines.