Flip phones are almost extinct save for some few companies like LG, Samsung, Kyocera that still manufactures them. The advent of smartphones ensured flip phones and other feature phones became near extinct. With smartphones came several apps and features that keep you occupied all day long. However a company in Utah, US is conducting a social experiment dubbed Flip Phone Challenge that seeks to determine how it feels to use a flip phone at this present time.
Make no mistake, there are still some persons stuck with their flip phones with no immediate plan to let go. The experiment isn’t for such persons, rather it is for persons who are smartphone addicts and can’t go a day without turning on their phones. In the words of the company; “Our ideal candidate will be a self-proclaimed smartphone fiend who’s always up to date on the latest tech news. They’ll be organized, detail-oriented, and willing to persevere (through a smartphone-less week)!” The candidate will take home $1000 if he carries out the task successfully.
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The company says the goal of the Flip Phone Challenge is to send someone “back to the 90s” to find out just how much and in what ways people rely on their smartphones in 2019. The research will also determine if the lack of a smartphone could affect sleep patterns, productivity, punctuality and more. To get the candidate into the right frame of mind that reenacts the 90s, the company will provide the candidate with some stuff which it termed Boredom Buster Swag Bag (survival kit) and this includes a physical map in place of GPS, pocket phonebook which will make up for the limited phone storage space, notepad and some CDs from the ’90s to replace Spotify and other music apps.
Application is still ongoing for anyone willing to apply. The source link takes you to the page.
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