Look at it!
It just oozes cool. Ugh, I need to find mine in storage.
Funny how, in the PSP’s hayday, staring at a little glowing rectangle in public felt so awkward. And now it’s digital detox.
So I’ve started carrying this little guy around in public, as my “phone detox”:
And strangers approach me and ask “ohhh, what is that, a camera?" Like it’s alien technology they didn’t even know was an option. Same thing happens with my relative’s iPod, and I imagine a PSP would evoke a similar response.
I posit that people want dumb electronics. They want to be liberated from addictive smartphone slop. They just don’t realize it until they see it exists.
I found myself using my smartphone so little anymore that when it wore out I bought a Mudita Kompakt instead. It’s not quite to the level of a flip phone, (I wanted something that I could still read e-books on.) but I’m still amazed by how many comments I get on it when I have it out for something. The four or five days without charging is great!
Man, I want to go back to an old flip phone so badly, but I drive around a lot in unfamiliar places for work so I need a GPS and also listen to audio books to keep awake so I’d prefer something to play those. I just wish there was one with some kind of map app so I don’t need to carry 3 separate devices around
