T9

I have decided that I spend way too much time on this smartphone.

So I am going to try an experiment. I will go back to a basic phone with a T9 keyboard and see how that flies. Anything but Symbian (did they not ever realize what rubbish it was?).

All I want is phone access, texts, an ability to read gmail and google calendar, a universal messenger system (that sucks in all messenging services), maps, a taxi booking service, and a camera.

Yeah OK, OK, I give up.

Maybe what we need is an ability to set up profiles on our phones.

For example I could setup a profile on this phone which only gives me access to the above list of functions, it would turn off all other notifications, and it would hide all other icons from view.

And once I enter into this profile it won’t let me use any the other functions for a predefined period of time.

It would be like an alcoholic filling his fridge with grog and putting a time-delay lock on it.

This capability would be especially useful when attending any sort of social function.

I name it the AA app; anti Aspergers.

POSTSCRIPT – there is an app called Detox Launcher for Android which has much of this functionality but is a tad tedious to set up. I have suggested some changes to the author and he is already onto it. He reckons in a couple of weeks the exact app that I need will be ready.