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Jonathan Bell

Can HMD’s Better Phone Project shift the dial on excessive smartphone use?

The Better Phone Project from HMD.

We use our phones way too much. An increasing number of studies are pointing to the flipside of the smartphone; addiction, anxiety, depression and more have all been attributed to the ubiquity of modern communications technology. Yet there’s still no magic behaviour changing bullet, no smartphone equivalent of the 1964 ‘Smoking and Health’ report from the US Surgeon General that blew away decades of tobacco industry hem-hawing.

Dumbing down: Nokia 3210 and Nokia 2660 (Image credit: HMD)
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