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Comment by smt88 | Hacker News Reader

> Leave your phone in your dorm and sneak off campus, it's as easy as that.

To do... what? Without a phone, many will have no means of transportation. They won't be able to sync up with friends or use GPS.

It's absolutely unimaginable that a large number of college students will leave campus without a phone. They're much more likely to have a separate phone to put the app on.

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Don't you have old phones laying around? Install the app on one of those and keep using your main phone.

Read the fifth sentence of my comment, where I proposed exactly that.

I was responding to someone who proposed leaving campus without a phone.

If you’re not going to use it as a phone, it neither needs to be good nor have a data plan. Literally the cheapest phone available would do the trick.

You can get a refurb Android phone for literally $5 from Tracfone right now, for example.

I agree. I was responding to someone suggesting students leave campus without a phone. It makes much more sense to have a decoy device than to leave your phone at home.

Amazingly enough, people managed to get by before smartphones were the norm.

I rarely if ever go out of the house without my phone on me, but I reckon it wouldn't be that difficult to get a small group into a car and just drive out, maybe writing down the way beforehand. It would be annoying, but they'd manage just fine.

> maybe writing down the way beforehand

Google maps street view (satellite if not available) is far preferable. You just need to remember landmarks to turn at.

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