In March, I put my iPhone into a yellow cardboard box with MO stamped on top—the M looked like a riff on the Motorola logo; the O looked like a flower. Over the next several weeks, I left my phone there for roughly 23.5 hours out of every day.

In an era where smartphones keep getting larger, both flip phones and compact smartphones have carved out a niche for users who prefer easier-to-hold devices. But since these two kinds of smartphones have their own spin on portability, which one is better?

Ai+ Smartphone has launched a flip phone with a MediaTek chipset, an AMOLED display, and 50MP cameras for under ₹30,000.

Maneesha Panja, 30, joined Month Offline, a program that syncs smartphone data to a flip phone. She spent a month using her flip phone and meeting with other members of the group. She said she made new friends and had more time to read. In the end, she decided to keep her dumb phone.