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We traded our smartphones for flip phones for 4 days—and learned that ditching modern technology is harder than it sounds

Two CNBC Make It reporters used flip phones instead of smartphones for four days, as a digital detox experiment. Both say they'd do it again.

We traded our smartphones for flip phones for 4 days—and learned that ditching modern technology is harder than it sounds

TL;DR

  • Two reporters experimented with using flip phones instead of smartphones.
  • The digital detox lasted for four days.
  • Both reporters expressed that they would undertake the experiment again.