The Google Pixel 3 Is A Very Good Phone. But Maybe Phones Have Gone Too Far.

Mat Honan’s review of the Google Pixel 3 smartphone is a funny, harrowing, real-talk look at the devices that have come to govern our lives. “We are captives to our phones, they are having a deleterious effect on society, and no one is coming to help us,” he writes. “On the upside, this is a great phone.”

The Buzzfeed review is a world-weary acknowledgement of the downside of our personal technologies���its effect on our relationships, on our privacy, on our peace of mind. He does point out the new “digital wellbeing” features in Android, but offers other alternatives:

Another idea: You may instead choose to buy a device
with a lousy screen and a lousy camera and a terrible
processor. Maybe you would use this less. Or maybe
you should walk to the ocean and throw your phone in
and turn around and never look back**.

**Please do not do this. It would be very bad for the ocean.

Related recommendation for designers and product makers: check out Liza Kindred’s Mindful Technology for strategies and techniques for making products that focus attention instead of distract it.

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