放棄iPhone,重拾翻蓋手機

“The physical absence was the first thing I noticed,” says Katie Reid, 29, who gave up her iPhone in February for a flip phone. “It felt like something was missing from my body.” This phantom-limb-like sensation will last about a month; a flip phone will never have that same hold on you. To make the transition tolerable, wean yourself slowly. For Reid, who is the director of digital media at a boys’ school in Baltimore, the process took years. First, do a smartphone self-diagnosis. “If there’s something in your gut telling you this isn’t good for you, explore that,” says Reid, who found that the constant access to social-media sites, Twitter especially, made her anxious and sad.

“身體上的缺失是我最先察覺到的，”29歲的凱蒂·裏德說。二月份，她放棄了自己的iPhone並換成一部翻蓋手機。“感覺像是我的身體少了某個東西。”這種像幻肢一樣的感受會持續大約一個月。翻蓋手機永遠不會對你有同樣的支配力。爲了使得這一改變可以忍受，讓自己慢慢來。對於身爲巴爾的摩一所男校內數字媒體主管的裏德來說，這個過程花了數年之久。首先，做一個智能手機的自我診斷。“如果有什麼東西在你心裏告訴你，這對你是不好的，那麼就把它探究明白，”裏德說。她發現持續地使用社交網站，尤其是Twitter，讓她既焦慮又痛苦。

She began by removing the social-media apps from her iPhone. That might be enough, but if you continue to feel a compulsion that makes you uneasy, consider flip-phonedom. Start paying more attention to geography. Reid worried most about the loss of GPS-enabled maps. Without them, you’ll need to plan ahead by looking up directions and printing them out or writing them down. “I bought some maps for my car,” Reid says. You will occasionally get lost. Still, take comfort in the fact that smartphones are all around you; nearly 80 percent of adults in the United States have one. You can ask for directions. Others can order an Uber or Lyft for you. Recently, Reid’s 1-year-old daughter had a birthday party. “I didn’t take any pictures,” she says, but of course she knew that someone else would.

她從刪掉自己iPhone裏的社交媒體軟件開始做起。那樣做可能足夠了，但是如果你仍舊感受到一種使你感到不安的強迫感，那麼就考慮一下翻蓋手機吧。開始更多地留心地理。裏德之前最擔心的就是失去了帶有GPS功能的地圖。沒有了它們，你需要通過查地圖然後打印或是寫下來，以提前進行規劃。“我買了一些地圖放在我的車裏，”裏德說。你偶爾會迷路。不過請放心，周圍有的是智能手機；在美國，大約80%的成年人有一部手機。你可以問路。其他人也可以幫你打Uber或是Lyft。最近，裏德一歲的女兒過了一個生日派對。“我沒拍任何照片，”她說，但是她當然也知道，其他人會拍。

Prepare for clunky predictive-texting technology. For Reid, this T9 texting — that is, without a full keyboard — is the most irksome thing about the flip phone. You’ll end up calling people more often.

準備好面對笨拙的短信輸入預測技術。對於裏德來說，這種T9輸入法——也就是說，沒有全鍵盤的輸入法——是翻蓋手機最令人討厭的地方。你最終會更多地給人打電話。

Social interactions will be challenging. People will tease you or apologize sheepishly for using their phones in front of you. Your parents might be frustrated. Onlookers will assume you hate technology. Maybe you do, but Reid doesn’t. She spends long stretches of her days in front of a computer, but she has no desire to go back to a smartphone. “There was this expectation that I was going to be reachable all the time,” Reid says. “I like not having to answer to that.”

社交往來會很有挑戰性。人們嘲笑你，或是在你面前使用手機感到很不好意思。你的父母可能會不勝煩擾。旁觀者會認爲你憎恨技術。也許你確實這樣，但裏德不是。她每天會花很長的時間坐在電腦前，但她不再有重新用回智能手機的慾望。“過去有一種預期，那就是我隨時都可以被聯繫到，”裏德說。“我不想被迫地去迴應那些消息。”