The next Han Solo walks into a bowling alley on the edge of L. A.'s Koreatown, carrying a flip phone.
It's a really nice flip phone. Top of the line. Looks like you could comfortably play Bejeweled on it for hours if you were stuck in an elevator in 2007. But this sort of dumbphone is also the most low-tech gadget you can carry while still being technically on-grid, which is how Alden Ehrenreich has come to prefer it lately. "I had an iPhone," he says, "and then I'd forget my iPhone at home, and I'd be like, God, I feel so good. I'm having such a good day. And then I'd realize, Oh—it's because I'm not checking my email nineteen thousand times."
When he has the means to do that, Ehrenreich says, "I'm less able to be where I am, a little bit."
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