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Steven:  Hello, and welcome to The Three Techs. I’m Steven Branson and I’m with my co-hosts Bob fare, Ben and Tony Tang

Bob: Good

Tony: Hey, Steven.

Steven: So I happen to be one of those rare people who do not use a smartphone day-to-day and I stick by my choice. For sure. And I thought I would go through my reasons for not using a smartphone. And so bothered toady. Haven’t heard these yet. So you’re getting a life, life reaction to my reasons for not using a smartphone.

Tony: and Steven, when you say you’ve never used a smartphone, I mean, you’ve touched a smartphone before, right. And have, but you’ve never just used it for work or personal

Steven: Right, right. 

Tony: And this is by the way, recorded December, 2020. So the smartphone has existed for over a decade. And Steven has not yet adopted one for daily use.

Steven: a slow adopter on CDs as well.

Tony: What are those? Steven

Bob: Oh,

Tony: said another streaming

Bob: discs, rafter. We’re talking about.

Steven: Yeah

Tony: Yeah. How about videos,

Steven: Well, I, I never, I never invest.

Tony: or beta?

Steven: I never invested in VHS.

Tony: Well, are you going to adopt that soon or,

Steven: no. I, I went straight from nothing to DVD.

Tony: Okay. A Blu-ray just curious.

Bob: wait a minute. UHD or just Blu-ray ultra high Def. Come

Steven: just playing at the moment.

Bob: Ah, okay, so you, you, you ain’t ultra yet. Okay.

Tony: Okay. So while, while the rest of the modern world, and maybe even third world countries have adopted smartphones, Steven has not yet adopted a smartphone in 2020. So Steven, why the heck haven’t you adopted a smartphone yet? And what are you using by the way as your phone, you have a

Steven: I do have a phone.

Tony: A mobile.

Steven: we don’t recording video, but I’m just holding it up to my camera. It’s a, it’s a flip phone. So I used to use of course a Motorola flip phone, but these days it’s a Kaia Sera flip phone, that uses Verizon.

So in, in my work office, we have Verizon boosters on our tool floor in Chicago. And so I had to get a Verizon phone and this one is a very rugged 

Tony: and it’s,  got a T nine key pad. If people don’t know what that is, that means it’s got numbers. One, two, three, you know, all the way through one through zero and a star button and a pound button. So. If you text Steven, you may not get a reply for a day or two, right. Because it’s,

Steven: It takes so long. This is true.

Tony: It will just call you because texting is too much effort.

So do you, do you text on that phone, Steven, by the way?

Steven: rarely.

Tony: Okay,

Bob: We wonder why we don’t have to wonder why.

Tony: Does that camera, or does that phone have a camera in it?