Minimalist smart phone

Another “minimalist” smart phone that promises succor to the masses that are addicted to every notification.

Humor: Phone

Another nice one from the New Yorker. It never ceases to amaze me how many people are addicted to their phones.

Chastity belt for phones?

Apparently there’s now a little device that you can plug into an Android phone to make the distracting apps recede in the background.

It’s a shame that one needs something like to this to keep control, but such is the power of the phone.

Elegant app launcher

For all those people that are easily distracted by smartphone apps / notifications, enter Blloc Ratio, an elegant app launcher (and more). It essentially allows you to focus the “home screen” to just the apps that you care about, it reminds you of the time you waste per app, has the ability to “go monochrome” per app and more. To get the full picture, I would recommend a short video.

Unfortunately, it just seems to be for certain Android phones currently. It seems like the future of the interface for smartphone isn’t locked in stone after all.