Over the past few months, I've spotted something a little odd and unexpected happening to Sony's old PlayStation Portable. There's been no corporate push, no announcement of the truly portable Sony handheld we used to hope for (sorry, Portal). Instead, through something far less predictable, considering it'
  • brucethemoose@lemmy.worldEnglish
    7 months

    Look at it!

    PSP body

    It just oozes cool. Ugh, I need to find mine in storage.

    Funny how, in the PSP’s hayday, staring at a little glowing rectangle in public felt so awkward. And now it’s digital detox.

    So I’ve started carrying this little guy around in public, as my “phone detox”:

    And strangers approach me and ask “ohhh, what is that, a camera?" Like it’s alien technology they didn’t even know was an option. Same thing happens with my relative’s iPod, and I imagine a PSP would evoke a similar response.

    I posit that people want dumb electronics. They want to be liberated from addictive smartphone slop. They just don’t realize it until they see it exists.

    • stargazingpenguin@lemmy.zipEnglish
      7 months

      I found myself using my smartphone so little anymore that when it wore out I bought a Mudita Kompakt instead. It’s not quite to the level of a flip phone, (I wanted something that I could still read e-books on.) but I’m still amazed by how many comments I get on it when I have it out for something. The four or five days without charging is great!

      • Arcadeep@lemmy.worldEnglish
        7 months

        Man, I want to go back to an old flip phone so badly, but I drive around a lot in unfamiliar places for work so I need a GPS and also listen to audio books to keep awake so I’d prefer something to play those. I just wish there was one with some kind of map app so I don’t need to carry 3 separate devices around