I tried the Light Phone for a week – could I survive on just texts and calls?

If you spend hours a day staring at your phone screen for social media, games and reading, a new no-frills device could help nudge you back to the real world

For years, I have had a screensaver on my iPhone that says READ A BOOK INSTEAD. It hasn't worked.

I used my phone for an average of 4 hours and 2 minutes a day last week, picking it up 103 times a day. That's about once every 10 minutes while I am awake. And for what? Poki(C)mon Go (yes, I am addicted), social networking and reading - in that order. And when I'm not on my phone, I am on my laptop.