but between all the social media networks' notifications,

但在所有社交媒體網絡的通知之間。

there's a sense that they're starting

有一種感覺，他們開始。

to take over our lives.

來接管我們的生活。

Now I have an iPhone 6 and it's a pretty good phone.

現在我有一部iPhone6，它是一部相當不錯的手機。

The problem is I spend a lot of time on it

問題是我花了很多時間在這上面

scrolling through Twitter, Instagram and whatever else.

滾動在Twitter、Instagram和其他什麼地方。

So to help me deal with my iPhone addiction,

所以為了幫助我解決我的iPhone癮。

I decided to play around with some more minimalist phones.

我決定再玩玩一些極簡主義的手機。

That includes the Unihertz Jelly,

包括尤尼赫茲果凍。

the Nokia 3310, the Punkt MP 01, and The Light Phone.

諾基亞3310、Punkt MP 01和Light Phone。

And I'm gonna head to Brooklyn's Prospect Park to see

而我要去布魯克林的展望公園看看

how disconnected I can get.

我怎麼能脫節。

(upbeat, modern music)

(歡快的現代音樂)

This is the Jelly, a tiny little Android smartphone.

這就是Jelly，一款小巧的Android智能手機。

Unihertz, the creators, call it impossibly small,

Unihertz的創造者，稱其為不可能的小。

amazingly cute, and totally functional.

驚人的可愛，而且完全是功能性的。

Only two of those things are true,

其中只有兩件事是真的。

but I'm kinda getting ahead of myself.

但我有點自作多情了。

First thing you'll notice about the Jelly

首先，你會注意到關於果凍的第一件事。

is just how small it is.

就是它有多小。

At three and a half inches in length, it fits into

長3.5英寸，可裝入

the palm of my hand, costs $125, runs on Android 7,

掌上明珠，價格125元，運行在安卓7。

has a 1.1 gigahertz processor, and has front and rear-facing

擁有1.1千兆赫的處理器，並有前後兩面。

cameras that are eight and two megapixels,

800萬像素和200萬像素的相機。

which isn't that great.

這不是很大。

The phone runs on 4G network and has Dual SIM cards.

手機運行在4G網絡上，並擁有雙SIM卡。

Now, because of the thickness, a lot of people thought

現在，因為厚度的原因，很多人都以為

it had a slide-out keyboard, which it doesn't.

它有一個滑出鍵盤，它沒有。

But it does have a two and a half inch touchscreen

但它確實有一個兩英寸半的觸摸屏。

that's fully functional.

那是功能齊全的。

Back to those two truths and a lie.

回到這兩個事實和一個謊言。

The Jelly is impossibly small and amazingly cute,

果凍不可能小到驚人的可愛。

and there's just something cool about having the full

而且有隻是一些很酷的東西有完整的。

functionality of a smartphone in such a small package.

在如此小的包裝中實現智能手機的功能。

Scrolling through an Instagram Live video on such

在這樣的Instagram直播視頻中滾動瀏覽。

a tiny screen is just kind of fun.

小小的螢幕只是一種樂趣。

And if you wanna disconnect,

如果你想斷開連接，

there's a purpose for the smallness.

渺小是有目的的。

With the screen so small it adds a level of friction

由於螢幕太小，它增加了摩擦力。

that we're not typically used to, so I found myself

我們通常不習慣的，所以我發現自己...

reading less and actually just pulling

少讀，實際上只是拉

my phone out less entirely.

我的手機出少完全。

But the Jelly's small size actually

但果凍的體積小，其實

threatens its functionality.

威脅其功能。

Using the Jelly's thimble-sized keyboard

使用Jelly的拇指大小的鍵盤。

was almost impossible and I kept making tons of mistakes.

幾乎是不可能的，我一直在犯大量的錯誤。

In the end, I started texting less because I wanted

最後，我開始少發短信，因為我想。

to make less typos.

以減少錯別字。

The Jelly's other big drawback is battery life.

果凍的另一大缺點是電池壽命。

Downloading just a few apps made my phone hot,

只下載了幾個應用，我的手機就熱了。

and I lost almost 20% of my battery.

而我的電池損失了近20%。

At 83% it told me I only had four hours of life left,

在83%的時候，它告訴我，我只剩下四個小時的生命。

which meant that I had to carry around

這意味著，我必須隨身攜帶

this huge battery pack all day long

這個巨大的電池組一天到晚

just to make it through the day.

只是為了讓它通過一天。

And if you wanna use the phone less,

而如果你想少用手機。

maybe that's not such a bad thing.

也許這不是一件壞事。

But if you really wanna disconnect, you might wanna

但是，如果你真的想斷開連接，你可能會想。

ditch your smartphone for a feature phone.

拋棄你的智能手機，換成功能手機。

Nokia 3310 is one of the most iconic and popular phones

諾基亞3310是最具代表性的熱門手機之一。

of all time, and in 2017, the company rereleased it

的，而在2017年，該公司又重新發布了

as part of its nostalgia-driven marketing push.

作為其懷舊驅動的市場推廣的一部分。

Now, the new phone benefits from a larger color screen

現在，新手機得益於更大的彩色螢幕。

and a more bubbly design than its brick-like predecessor.

和比它的前輩磚頭一樣的設計更有氣泡感。

It has a two megapixel camera in the back

它的背面有一個200萬像素的攝像頭。

and runs on Nokia's proprietary OS.

並運行在諾基亞的專有作業系統上。

It comes with a classic 2002 era skeleton crew of apps

它配備了一個經典的2002年時代的骷髏團隊的應用程序。

like a calculator, a calendar, and obviously Snake.

比如計算器、日曆，顯然還有蛇。

Unlike the Jelly, it has a pretty good battery life,

與果凍不同，它的電池續航能力相當不錯。

about six and a half hours of talk time,

大約六個半小時的談話時間。

and 650 hours of standby time.

和650小時的待機時間。

And it's cheap. You can get one for $60.

而且很便宜60元就能買到一個。

You'll notice the home screen has a couple of new additions

你會注意到主螢幕上有幾個新的內容

including a Facebook and Twitter button,

包括Facebook和Twitter按鈕。

but open them up and you get stuck

開弓沒有回頭箭

in Nokia's weird Web client that you have to navigate

在諾基亞怪異的網絡客戶端中，你必須導航到

with a clunky directional pad.

與笨重的方向墊。

It's so hard to use that eventually I just gave up,

它太難用了，最終我還是放棄了。

and maybe if you're trying to disconnect

也許如果你想斷開連接

that's not really a problem.

這不是一個真正的問題。

Moving over to the Nokia also comes with another big shift

轉戰諾基亞，還伴隨著另一個大的轉變。

and that's going from a full keyboard to T9.

而這是從全鍵盤到T9。

And if you're like me, you haven't used T9 in awhile,

如果你和我一樣，你有一段時間沒有使用T9了。

it takes some getting used to.

習慣成自然

It can definitely be clunky,

它絕對可以是笨重的。

but if you're trying to text less, it works.

但如果你想少發點文字，就可以用。

T9ing is too slow to text-bomb, and eventually,

T9ing太慢了，簡訊轟炸，最終。

you might just stop texting altogether.

你可能只是停止發短信完全。

If you really wanna get intentional about minimalist phones,

如果你真的想用心去做極簡手機。

you might wanna check out Punkt MP 01 phone.

你可能想看看Punkt MP 01手機。

Punkt means 'period' or 'stop' in German,

Punkt在德語中的意思是 "句號 "或 "停止"。

and it's a Swiss company that makes minimalist products.

而且是一家生產極簡主義產品的瑞士公司。

A lot of times when people see the MP 01 for the first time,

很多時候，當大家第一次看到MP 01的時候。

they think it looks like a calculator,

他們認為它看起來像一個計算器。

but I kind of actually like the design.

但我其實挺喜歡這個設計的。

It comes in three colors: brown, black, and white.

它有三種顏色：棕色、黑色、白色。

It's four and a half inches tall, it has

它有四寸半高，它有。

Gorilla Glass and a fiberglass reinforced body,

大猩猩玻璃和玻璃纖維強化機身。

so it feels sturdy in the hand.

所以手感很結實。

Navigating the phone is actually pretty easy,

導航手機其實很簡單。

'cause it only does two things and it has buttons

"因為它只做兩件事，而且它有按鈕

to navigate towards them, and that's texting and calling.

來向他們導航，那就是發短信和打電話。

The only hitch is that it costs $230, which is a lot

唯一的問題是，它的成本是230美元，這是一個很大的。

for a phone that only does two things.

對於一部手機來說，只能做兩件事。

And of those two things, it doesn't do one of them

而這兩件事中，它沒有做到其中之一。

very well, and that's texting.

很好，這就是簡訊。

So most phones when you text, they create a thread,

所以大部分手機當你發短信的時候，都會創建一個線程。

but the MP 01 actually breaks it up like email

但MP 01居然像電子郵件一樣把它拆開了

into an inbox, sent, draft, et cetera.

成收件箱，發送，草稿，等等。

Which is really confusing and kind of a pain in the ass.

這真的很混亂，有點麻煩。

And the phone did a pretty bad job of

而手機做的相當糟糕

capitalizing my sentences when I text,

當我發短信時，大寫我的句子。

which is really pretty basic stuff.

這真的是相當基本的東西。

It kind of feels like the perfect phone for somebody

它有點像一個人的完美手機的感覺

who can afford to hire someone else to take care

誰能請得起別人來打理

of the rest of their lives.

的餘生。

Oh, and did I mention that it only runs on a 2G network?

哦，我有沒有說過，它只能在2G網絡上運行？

And T-Mobile is one of the few carriers that

而T-Mobile是為數不多的幾家運營商之一。

still supports 2G in the U.S.?

在美國仍然支持2G？

And they're gonna phase it out by 2020.

而且他們會在2020年之前逐步淘汰。

All of which makes MP 01's claim that

所有這一切都使《重大計劃01》的說法成為事實。

the Punkt is a timeless device feel kinda empty.

Punkt是一個永恆的設備感覺有點空。

If there's one phone that really represents the

如果說有一款手機真正代表了。

minimalist phone movement, it's The Light Phone,

極簡主義手機運動，是輕手機。

a business card sized device that you can either

一個名片大小的設備，你可以或

tether to your phone of use independently.

拴在你的手機上獨立使用。

It costs $150 and it literally only does one thing

它的成本是150美元，而且它實際上只做一件事。

and that's make phone calls.

那就是打電話。

New phones try to dazzle you with big, bright displays

新手機試圖用大而亮的顯示屏讓你眼花繚亂

and bezel-less design, but not The Light Phone.

和無邊框設計，但不是光手機。

The Light Phone really doesn't want any of your attention.

光手機真的不希望你的任何關注。

It's a beautiful device and a lot of people I showed it to

這是個漂亮的設備，我給很多人看了。

didn't even believe it worked,

甚至不相信它的工作。

but it works exactly as advertised.

但它的工作原理和廣告上的一樣。

And there was something freeing knowing that I could

有一些自由的東西，知道我可以

leave the house just with this and reach somebody

足不出戶，足不出戶

if I really needed to.

如果我真的需要。

At least, I hope I could, because if I'm being honest,

至少，我希望我可以，因為如果我是誠實的，

people don't really pick up their phones anymore.

人們真的不拿起他們的電話了。

I mean, I make one phone call a day maybe,

我的意思是，我每天打一個電話也許。

but I'm texting all the time,

但我發短信所有的時間。

either through Messenger or Slack or Twitter,

通過Messenger或Slack或Twitter。

and that makes The Light Phone feel like

而這讓《輕手機》感覺就像

an experiment more than a viable product,

一個實驗比一個可行的產品。

an effort to gauge whether people would really be interested

試探一下人們是否真的有興趣。

in such a minimal device.

在這樣一個最小的設備中。

And apparently they are.

顯然，他們是。

In 2018, the company announced Light Phone II,

2018年，該公司發佈了輕手機二代。

a 4G version that would have E-ink display, a full keyboard,

4G版本，會有E-ink顯示屏，全鍵盤。

and possibly even some features like maps and music.

甚至有可能是地圖和音樂等一些功能。

But loading smartphone features onto such a minimal device

但是，將智能手機的功能加載到這樣一個最小的設備上。

is probably gonna have problems of its own.

可能會有自己的問題。

I spent a lot of time with these phones

我花了很多時間與這些手機

over the last couple weeks, and what I've realized is that,

在過去的幾周裡，我意識到的是，

I don't really want a phone that limits my communication

我真的不想要一個限制我通訊的手機。

or one that makes me make more phone calls.

或者是讓我打更多電話的。

In 2018, a lot of our communication happens over text,

在2018年，我們的很多交流都是通過文字進行的。

and I don't really think that's such a bad thing.

我真的不認為這是一件壞事。

What I don't really need is all the social media networks,

我真正不需要的是所有的社交媒體網絡。

all the notifications, the short battery life,

所有的通知，電池壽命短。

and the bezel-less screen.

和無邊框螢幕。

That's what kinda makes phones overwhelming,

這也是讓手機有點吃不消的原因。

not a text from my mom or a friend.

不是我媽媽或朋友的簡訊。

What I really want is a smartphone functionality

我真正想要的是智能手機的功能

stripped of all the gizmos.

脫離了所有的小玩意。

Unfortunately, a lot of these minimalist phones

不幸的是，這些極簡主義手機中，有很多

threw out the texting baby with the social media bathwater.

把發短信的嬰兒和社交媒體的洗澡水一起扔掉了。

So until they figure that out, I'm just gonna

所以，在他們弄清楚之前，我只是要去。

delete my social media apps and keep my iPhone.

刪除我的社交媒體應用程序，並保持我的iPhone。

Fox.com has a video that explains how addictive

福克斯網有一個視頻，解釋瞭如何上癮的

smartphones could be.

智能手機可以是。

Click here to watch it and find out how necessary

點擊這裡觀看，發現有多必要。

a minimalist phone could be for you.

一個極簡主義的手機可能是為你。