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Broke my phone like two months ago and sent it in to get it repaired, which took about a month. I only had my work phone as emergency backup, so I basically didn't have a phone during most of that time.
Well, staring into space while waiting for the bus seems to be the convention where I live, so I didn't feel weird in that regard.
I did have some invasive thoughts, like what if you need to call emergency services and can't? Haven't needed that so far in my life and the chance of no one else with a phone being around is pretty slim, but the thought entered my mind anyways.
Well, and then I do use my phone for navigating public transport, for finding out where I need to go in case I ever get lost and then also just as a shopping list.
Shopping list is easy to replace with a sheet of paper. Navigating public transport had me suddenly looking at the hangouts in the various stations. It's certainly not the same as having an algorithm tell you the quickest route, but you can find a lot of information there and you will find a route, which is good enough.
Not having a map is something that had me kind of just not take larger trips. I guess, if I had been without a phone for longer, I would've gotten used to that, too. Like, you can ask people, some of which might have a phone with a map on it themselves even.
Generally speaking, after the first few days, I did not miss my phone as much as I thought. I found it somewhat liberating even.