30 days without iPhone

these days, can we live without smartphones these days?

the following text is authorized by Douban user @ ML

from the iPhone1 generation to the 6th generation. I am completely used to the various operating experiences of iOS, and I am also used to getting anything fun from the Apple Store. This winter, as I bowed my head and spent more and more time writing, coupled with the long-term use of smartphones, the accumulated problems occurred: my cervical vertebra was useless, and then my lumbar vertebrae. I was almost unable to get up while lying on my stomach at its worst. I can't use my arms at all. For the sake of my health, I plan to live a life without a smartphone, and if I really can't live without iPhone, it's time to change my 7Plus.

Day 1. I found the Sony Ericsson X1 in my collection, looked at it, and covered it again. After all, it's a brand new machine. Keep it. Then I picked out the Nokia N73 and Sony Ericsson T628 from the drawer, the latter can still be charged, I found a SIM card small to big Cato, installed the card in, there is a signal. On the sauce, the simple life begins.

by the way, it's my birthday, my new life.

Day 2. I came to Yidi Port alone for lunch and ordered salted rice in Chaozaihuang. The clerk told me that I could only pay by Wechat or Alipay, but not by credit card. All I have on me is a credit card, an ID card, and some small change. I can't get enough money for the meal. At that time, it was very embarrassing, and the waiter stared at me at the counter, wondering why this person just didn't want to take out his cell phone and scan the code. I couldn't help it. I changed to another restaurant and ordered something to eat for less than 20 yuan.

after eating in 10 minutes, I took out the change to pay the parking fee and went home to stay.

Day 3. I have found that I can't live without WeChat. Now my mother won't even call me, only the voice of Wechat. On the first day, I didn't have iPhone, I sent a notice on moments saying that I don't need a smartphone anymore. If you want to find me, please contact me by phone. It was only three days before I realized that I couldn't live without WeChat. Fortunately, I also have an idle BlackBerry, and the Android Passport can hold Wechat. After testing Wechat's ability to log in, I changed the main number.

however, this phone does not move 3G Edge 4G, only 2.4G Edge. Looking at the "e" icon in the upper right corner, I know this thing can only be used indoors.

nearly 2000 unread messages have passed by Wechat, which is only 3 days later. But in the past three days, I have finished reading 2 books, paper books.

Day 4. I went to a cafe in Sanlitun to attend the Google Chinese developer gathering, hosted by my old colleague and co-sponsored by a friend's company. After entering the venue, I was just in time for everyone to take a group photo, so I took out my BlackBerry to take a photo opposite to you. The picture quality was so bad that I didn't want to post it on moments.

in the latter days, because of the lack of iPhone's high-quality camera, I no longer took pictures everywhere as before; since I didn't take pictures, I didn't have any idea of posting them on moments; since I didn't post them, I didn't read them very much.

is fine.

Day 5. I look at Apple's official website from time to time to know when the bright black 128G iPhone7Plus can be booked to pick up goods at the Apple store. No, all the other colors have an appointment, but bright black has not been available all the time. Although it is well known that bright black is not wear-resistant and starts at least 128g, I would like to be this bad guy. I like this color, nothing else.

after studying it, the new MacBook Pro is still good. I like TouchBar quite much. I can get into one.

day 6. sold the gray MacBook on hand and took out the 2011 MacBook Air with only 2 gigabytes of memory. I just typed and browsed every day, which was enough.

day 7. I went to Wangjing SOHO to meet my friend, and my friend invited me to lunch, so it doesn't matter what to pay for it. I never took out my phone and realized that the two people actively communicated at the dinner table instead of playing with my phone. When I left after dinner, I went to the basement to pick up the car, and it suddenly occurred to me that there is a 50% discount if Wangjing SOHO basement uses ApplePay to pay the parking fee.

lose a lot.

Day 8. found a problem: Wechat on BlackBerry stopped updating more than a year ago, which means there are some features it doesn't have. On this day, a friend handed out red packets in the group, and the prompt I saw here was the message "this version is not supported".

I feel like I missed hundreds of millions.

Day 9. go out to dinner with a BlackBerry, thinking that now that I have Wechat, I can pay! I went back to the day when I didn't have a meal, and I took out Wechat to pay for it. As a result. BlackBerry version of WeChat, there is no collection and payment function, it can scan other people's QR code, but the serious generation of merchants QR code is not available!

luckily I installed an Alipay and saved it. I clicked on Alipay and waited for the loading, pop-up window to prompt: please upgrade Alipay client. Then, it automatically exits. But this is the latest, the latest fit in the BlackBerry store.

Feel your extremely best in prom dresses for big girl! Buy our tons of options in every style now.

I turned around and left, shameless.

Day 10. I can't hide it. I have an iPad Mini,4G+WiFi version, so I have a Unicom SIM card that is kept in it all year round. In the past, this iPad was only used for watching videos and reading Douban, and most of the time it was plugged into the stereo pedestal. This day I installed Wechat and found the previously idle Logitech Bluetooth keyboard. After all, it is much faster to reply to messages than to type and select words on a BlackBerry keyboard.

because I don't post much on moments, there is less news on WeChat. Except for the group (which is all blocked), almost no one is looking for me. Sometimes there is no news all day. I plan to take a look at Wechat after lunch and in front of Rest every day and try not to click on moments.

iOS's Super Mario is on the shelves. You can have this, buy one, and play on the high-speed train tomorrow.

Day 11. take the high-speed train to Nanjing to attend a conference, and you have to give a speech on stage. Using that old air to do PPT the other day was killing me. Despite its smooth typing and writing, I got stuck half to death as soon as I opened Office or Keynote, and every operation paused for half a second.

I adjusted the PPT, for the last time on the high-speed train and then started playing Mario. It was not easy to play games with the iPad in mid-air, but I had a pain in my cervical vertebra and could not bow my head for a long time.

iOS's Super Mario has done a good job and is highly playable, and it's almost perverted to want to pass perfectly.

12th day. after the speech, I went back to the hotel and swam for a while, feeling comfortable. Open the Yidao taxi on iPad and call a taxi to Nanjing South Railway Station and back to Beijing. I stood in the street, holding my mobile phone in my left hand to answer the driver's call at any time, and holding the iPad in my right hand to look at the map to see where the car went. It is also difficult for passers-by to see this man holding an iPad, in the cold wind.

in the car, holding up the iPad, I took some pictures of the strange new buildings in Nanjing and tried to add a filter to see them.

day 13. drive to my friend's company on Guanghua Road. I used to look at the road before going out and then decide which way to go. Nowadays, you can't watch the road without iPhone, and you can drive on the road. After two hours in a friend's office, I left for home before I got off work. Without the guidance of the road conditions, I went straight ahead, and this trip made me feel extremely relaxed because I didn't need to speculate on how I should choose, but just follow the most commonly used and direct route. As to whether it is right or whether it has taken the most congested road, God knows, since we have chosen one road, it is impossible to have another choice at the same time.

do not be blindly directed by Baidu and Gao de, do whatever you want, and do not complain.

I haven't driven so comfortably in a long time.

day 14. the BlackBerry received a text message from Mobile: I still have 10 gigabytes of useless traffic this month.

where can I finish using it, let's change to the set meal from next month?

15th day. after hearing about my recent miserable experience, my old colleagues couldn't watch it anymore. He came to me for lunch and brought a Dell monitor to me to stop bowing my head and writing on my laptop. He also lent me a mobile phone, a Nokia 930 and Windows 10.

I have a bad feeling.

take it back and plug it in, power on, and prompt to update the system. After updating for half an hour, I forgot its existence.

Day 16. the curative effect of going to the mobile phone is good, and I feel very good about myself. It seems that time has become more and more, using an external monitor, the neck is no longer painful.

because of lumbar problems, I can't sit for a long time. These days I stand at the bar in the living room and write, which ensures an output of 5000 words almost every day.

finished reading two more books.

day 17. I have grown accustomed to living without a smartphone or Wechat. I found the camera to recharge. Sony's black card camera has the advantage of WiFi direct transmitting photos. In the past two days, I have occasionally posted Douban on moments, entirely because the picture taken by the camera is much better than that of the mobile phone. First, take pictures with the camera, then use the iPad to connect the camera's WiFi to copy out the original film, slightly modify the picture, and then send it out.

my dear RX1rII has snubbed you for too long. He bought you back for a big price, but he didn't use as much as the small mobile phone camera. What's wrong with people?

18th day. on weekends, I watched movies on the sofa with Mr. Bai. The pace of the TV series is so slow that it can catch up with South Korean TV dramas, so it changes to the Western World. In the face of so many naked men and women, the teacher seemed not interested in it. She always had nothing to do and chatted with her mobile phone. She was reprimanded by me several times, and whether we could watch a good movie together or not. Mr. Bai said you used to spend more time holding your cell phone than I did! It's just that you don't think so!

is it? This is quite bad for family happiness. I used to do that.

19th day. on a whim, I opened Apple's official website to take a look at the reservation of bright black 7Plus. Hey! The nearest Sanlitun store and Chaoyang Dayuecheng store are in stock! After thinking about it, it seems that I don't need iPhone, to click the fork of the browser.

is clean.

20th day. Read, listen to music, swim, write, tease the dog. Life is so simple.

I used to play sudoku on iPhone, but now I can't play it, so I find out the Rubik's cube and review the formula again.

day 21. send the dog to a friend's house for foster care, because we went to Japan the next day. Concentrate on driving all the way, and wait for the red light to pick up the iPad to inform my friend that I am coming. The little brother who is waiting for the light next to me is surprised. I have seen someone who drives a mobile phone and has never seen a driver playing iPad. I can imagine his heart os: you. What a big heart.

day 22. I leave for Hokkaido because I want to buy a local SIM card when I go to Japan. Before I go out, take out the SONY Z1Ultra (kitchen knife) that was idle before I go out and charge it, turn it on, and get stuck. It's almost impossible to use. I thought of the Nokia 930 given to me by my old colleague the other day. WindowsPhone must be more fluent than Android. Put it in the box.

Day 23. Japanese SIM card inserted into Nokia 930 has no response and no service. I also tried China Mobile's card and China Unicom's card, but there was no response. After thinking about it for a long time, I suddenly recalled with a trace of the professionalism of that year, this mobile phone is TDMurLTE! That is, the domestic 4G standard can only be used in the people's Republic of China.

waste wood.

Day 24. soaking in the outdoor hot spring in the blizzard, soaking in the soup under the shoulder, goose feather snow on the face and shoulders, very happy. I thought that if I had an iPhone in my hand, I could take a few pictures or show off a souvenir. But just think about it, how can you bring a cell phone in and still want to take pictures? it's against the rules. Just enjoy the moment.

people, when traveling, they often spend too much time taking pictures and sharing. They do not see the scenery clearly, and they are busy sharing it with others before they can enjoy it quietly and truly. What is the point of sharing it with others?.

25th day. I have an appointment with friends who also happen to be in Hokkaido to meet for dinner at the Jigu Ski Resort, and the last day of 2016 should be exciting even if nothing is accomplished throughout the year. My Wechat on iPad left a message to my friend that he would contact me at 8 p.m., then locked the iPad in his locker and got on the snow trail-it would break if I went skiing with the iPad. When the snow resort closed at 8 o'clock, I opened my iPad and saw a series of messages from him: they came down to rest at 05:30. I couldn't be reached, so I called a car back to the hotel for dinner and rest.

did not explain to others in time that Wechat could not contact me normally now, after all, it was quite a mistake.

Day 26. on the first day of 2017, there is no difference in all kinds of Happy New year in moments, and it doesn't matter who sent it. I don't seem to be short of anything. In this era of information explosion, how much repetitive content is wasting the network and wasting energy? What's the difference between one more like and one less like?

one of my decoration articles made Douban's headline on the front page of Douban for the New year. The comment notice exploded, the number of fans also exploded, and Zhihu also recommended it, which is a good sign. I didn't have time to read the comments and hurried on the snow trail.

it's snowing heavily, so you should do something that needs to be done.

27th day. go shopping, buy some daily necessities, and return home. Whenever I see interesting goods, I pull Mr. Bai over and say, borrow your iPhone, to take a picture of this for me, and you take another picture of that for me. She laughed at me and said, do you want to shoot? Buy your own iPhone. If you want to quit your cell phone, don't always think about taking pictures.

I grit my teeth and live the way of life I choose to live with tears.

28th day. landed in Beijing, haze obscured the sun, and couldn't see anything. The plane hasn't stopped yet, everyone is busy turning on their cell phones, all kinds of boot music is endless, I can't turn it on, I don't have anything to see, why do I drive, no one is looking for me, and there will be no message, why am I in such a hurry? The radio says please don't turn on your cell phone until the plane stops. Didn't you hear it?

if I had an iPhone in hand, I would have opened it. I didn't blow. I opened the plane the moment the tire hit the ground.

29th day. while having dinner, I opened a deserted Zhihu Live and didn't even make any money from my mobile phone, but it was much more cost-effective than my appointment on the line.

30th day. read, listen to music, swim, write, tease the dog. Life is just as simple.

I took a look at Wechat before Rest. A friend offered a 15% discount on iPhone7 and asked me if I wanted to buy it. I replied, "Thank you. I won't buy it for the time being." I'll think about it.

A week has passed since 2017, and in the month since I left iPhone, I have written nearly 100000 words and watched nearly 30 episodes of American TV series, more than 10 movies, and 7 books. I swim almost every day in China, soak in hot springs every day in Japan, spend almost nothing other than eating and parking in Beijing, and only buy some kitchen supplies and a box of Lego in Japan. This trip to Japan only symbolically visited the electronics store for 10 minutes and used to spend at least an hour.

so the question is, do I want to buy an iPhone? or not?