A Company Is Offering Somebody $1000 Just To Use A Flip Phone For One Week
Source – A company is offering $1,000 to the right candidate brave enough to use a flip phone only for one week.
Frontier Bundles, a Utah-based company that sells internet, phone and cable packages, says the goal of the Flip Phone Challenge is to send someone “back to the 90s” to find out just how much and in what ways people rely on their smartphones in 2019.
The company wants to know if a cheat-free week with an old-fashioned clamshell could affect sleep patterns, productivity, punctuality and more.
A thousand bones. One thousand clams. And you’re telling me that I get to throw this iPhone out the window and just get to cruise around with a flip phone from Sunday to Saturday? What a bunch of idiots. This company, man. I can’t wait to write the blog in about 2 years from now about Frontier Bundles going out of business.
“Hey do you want to have the best week of your life AND we’ll give you an extra grand to go along with it?”
Yeah great fucking business plan, fellas. Real brainiacs over there. I guess that’s why they always say that Frontier Bundles is the next Apple.
Obviously there are a few things that would suck about not having a smartphone. For starters, you wouldn’t be able to go anywhere that you’ve never been to before because you wouldn’t have GPS on your phone. Sure, you could always go to MapQuest and then print out the directions but does anybody have a printer anymore? Probably not. So travel would be an issue. You also wouldn’t be able to order on GrubHub or anything like that, so the week could be a little difficult if you didn’t go grocery shopping. Other than that though? I don’t see how there’s anything but positives to come out of that week.
Imagine how great it would be to watch tv and not constantly be staring down at your phone the whole time because you’re addicted to it. Or imagine not getting roped into any annoying ass group chats that go on forever because I don’t remember flip phones having that sort of capacity. Or imagine having an automatic excuse not to text people back because you can just say you forgot how T9 works. You can still watch porn on your computer. And you’d get all those kickass ringtones back in your life.
And on top of it all, you’d land $1000 in your pocket. And that $1000 will probably last a lot longer when you can’t just go blow straight through it all buying shit on your smartphone. Again, they don’t call Frontier Bundles the next Apple for nothing. Goddamn idiots. Give me my $1000.