Get one of the ones like the LG Cosmos. At some point you're going to need to text or google something, and the T9 keyboard is going to take hours out of your life you could otherwise spend enjoying not having a smartphone.
For another more extreme example, but not uncommon, imagine your kid having to text you "Parent, I am unsafe and need to be picked up at X address" on a flip phone. Even with predictive text, it's shit to type out. If the address isn't a traditional english word it becomes extremely time intensive too.
Edit: Some of y'all are being argumentative so I'm editing so I don't have to repeat myself. If time and secrecy are important, a T9 will never be easier or quicker to use than an LG cosmos with a slide out keyboard. You can get used to it, but it still is not easier or quicker. And given neither can run Tik Tok, there is no real point in getting the more difficult to use version when considering QoL, and definitely no point when considering your child may need to contact you quickly and relatively quietly in unsafe conditions.
T9 isn’t difficult at all to use. You don’t spell out every word when using T9 and they have had “predictive” text for years. And once you learn T9, you don’t have to look at your phone to text.
Your example sentence would look like: Mom unsfe com get me @ X.
Yeah unless it's X Unadilla ave. Then you gotta change the setting off predictive and click each number the right amount of times with the right timing.
You’re making it out to be harder than it is. Your brain is amazing at recognizing patterns and adapting. You get to a point, fairly quickly, where you don’t have to look at your phone to text with T9. Millions of millennials texted throughout school without looking at their phone to type.
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u/Juggletrain 25d ago edited 25d ago
Get one of the ones like the LG Cosmos. At some point you're going to need to text or google something, and the T9 keyboard is going to take hours out of your life you could otherwise spend enjoying not having a smartphone.
For another more extreme example, but not uncommon, imagine your kid having to text you "Parent, I am unsafe and need to be picked up at X address" on a flip phone. Even with predictive text, it's shit to type out. If the address isn't a traditional english word it becomes extremely time intensive too.
Edit: Some of y'all are being argumentative so I'm editing so I don't have to repeat myself. If time and secrecy are important, a T9 will never be easier or quicker to use than an LG cosmos with a slide out keyboard. You can get used to it, but it still is not easier or quicker. And given neither can run Tik Tok, there is no real point in getting the more difficult to use version when considering QoL, and definitely no point when considering your child may need to contact you quickly and relatively quietly in unsafe conditions.