My dumbphone experiment

If we haven't all done it, most of us have probably thought about it: Could I downgrade my smartphone to a dumbphone?

I wouldn't say I'm addicted to my smartphone but it's a constant presence and often not in a good way. So I've got myself a cheap dumbphone and I'm trying it out over the weekend.

The phone came with about a third of a charge in the battery so I'm going to try to make that last the whole weekend. Surprisingly it came with a standard micro-USB charger. It's not illegal to supply a charger with a phone but if I remember correctly that's likely fairly soon.

As with all these kinds of experiments, you never really know what's going to work and what won't. But these are my hopes if not necessarily my expectations:

I'm not going to name the phone. This isn't the place for consumer reviews much less advertorial. It's the concept and the experience as it relates to my life that matters.