Is It Time to Go Back to My Flip Phone?

phones were about to go the way of the dodo. When a friend pulled out a flip phone recently, I asked her if she found it at an archaeological dig.

Now, I bite my tongue. Because for a while, I’ve been secretly hating my iPhone just about as much as I love it. My iPhone does everything for me: it connects me to the world and helps me navigate it. But that power comes with a price: I am forever connected, forever tethered to the vast, teeming, cacophonous internet. Sometimes I want to disconnect--while still leaving open the old-fashioned option of placing a phone call, and only a phone call. (See

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