The Minimal Phone
A dumbphone that’s smarter than it looks …
Your columnist used to go on long work trips with a chronic under-packer. Whatever we needed, you could guarantee she didn’t have it, while at the same time, she would laugh irritatingly at the fact that in my bulging suitcase and flight bag, I did have it.
Files, cables, connectors, pens, chargers, and water bottles were all to be found in my luggage, while Ms. Cool swanned onto flights with no carry-on bags, just a backpack and a laptop in a paper carrier, which would inevitably split as I heaved it into the overhead bin.
