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"When mobile phones first hit the mainstream in the mid-1990s, they all had one
thing in common: buttons. There were buttons to help you ploddingly compose a
text, buttons to help you navigate menus, and buttons to direct a hungry snake
around your screen.
Fast-forward a decade, and these pushable interfaces all but disappeared, swept
aside by the rise of touchscreens. However, for one ethical smartphone company,
buttons are making a comeback, as part of an effort to help users intentionally
switch off.
The newly released Fairphone (Gen. 6) doesn’t have many buttons, but it wants
to make the ones it does have count. Like the fluorescent lime-coloured switch
on the right-hand side, which flicks it into Fairphone Moments, a mindful mode
that cuts out notifications and allows just five essential apps."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
