Excellent. I remember when I got my first Blackberry-- for work, it was part of a job-- my wife used to stare daggers at me whenever I answered it, and say quietly, 'Toilet, toilet, toilet." My last Blackberry was a PRIV, the worst phone I've ever owned, and I smashed it with a hammer.
I do use smartphones, but always just buy the cheapest ones, because my opinion is that there's no meaningful difference between them. I don't mind waiting six or 10 seconds for my email messages to appear, I actually prefer it, because it keeps me from checking it too often. I take pictures on a stand-alone camera, and I have several of them. I do have a sequencer, guitar tuner, and million-track recording studio on my phone, but for my purposes, they run equally well no matter what phone they are on.
For incidental email surfing when I'm not at my computer, I now use an e-Ink micro tablet, actually a phone, but it doesn't get service in the US. Easier on the eyes, and since it also has books on it... well, when I'm about to check the news headlines for the seventh time, it's like, "Okay, this is stupid, I'll read some science fiction or Henry James or something," which is more satisfying-- great to have it right there in my hands. I love that it's black and white, I'm less likely to be distracted by graphics, videos, and text.
I do have an AssFace... un, Facebook account for friends on the East Coast, but I completely deactivate it for at least six weeks a year—and I've been off for as long as three years. Man, FB really hates that... they just bombard me with ads. I wonder if I should contact
https://fitbit.pissedconsumer.com/customer-service.html to see if they can offer any insights on dealing with these endless ads.
What I love about deactivating is that it forces you to answer the question "Why are you leaving Facebook"? You have to select one of 10 or 12 responses, or you have to check 'Other' and provide a reason. My answer is always, "No reason will be provided." I don't know why that is so satisfying, I'm still such a punk!
These are really well-respected in the watch collecting community, and with good reason. Very robust, very reliable. Personally, I do not use watches with replacement batteries, mostly because all my watches have to be waterproof, I'm always in the water, though these days, mostly for lap swimming.
Timing bezels are great for coarse timing!
But the other reason is that I have too many watches. If I forget to replace the batteries in the non-solar quartz watches, they often leak and destroy the movement. I lost an old favorite, my Seiko Sports 100, that way after it served me really well for 15 years, and never got over it. Real heartbreaker-- I take it in to get fixed, they clean it up, it works for a few weeks, and then fails again. When I had only one watch, replaceable battery was fine.
I don't like expensive watches, and I do wear all of my affordables, which is pretty crazy. I am capable of changing watches three times a day. I like both solar and mechanical, and for the latter, I'm particularly partial to the NH35 movement (and related variants), for chronographs I like Valjoux 7750s or Seagull ST19s. The ST19s are super cheap, more delicate, and have to be cased properly, but if you get a good one (or a bad one fixed properly under warranty) they can last for decades.
