Comment by CGMthrowaway
5 days ago
>Designed for doing, not doomscrolling.
It still has a touchscreen, right? And it even has a blinky light up button on the side, something iPhone doesn't. I read the homepage, but I couldn't figure out how this phone was "anti-doomscrolling" - what am I missing?
The "small" screen is supposed to deter social media and video use.
I find that the Unihertz Titan 2 with its capacitive scrolling physical keyboard to be an even better reading/doomscrolling vessel than a long touch screen phone where the act of scrolling may accidentally open something.
The Clicks Communicator appears to be a bit smaller than the chonky Titan 2, but for those looking to end doom scrolling, this might not be the phone for you.
That said, using a rectangular phone does make the device unappealing for most video based platforms (which are all either in widescreen or tall landscape mode). It'll do in a pinch, but a square screen is pretty good at making Youtube/Tiktok/etc. less appealing.
It deters any kind of use outside texting.
Apps won't render properly on too small a screen (e.g. Google Maps). Good luck reading a website on a 4" square screen too
Reading websites should be no problem if pagination is used instead of scrolling.
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