Almost 2 hours a day on the phone?! What an incredible waste of time.
If you are just using a smart phone for making phone calls, you are wasting your money.
Which brings me back to my original question. How is this phone any better at making pohone calls that it is worth upgrading?
I still use my Motorola Razor flip phone (Which I bought ONLY because my old old nokia finally died). There is far too much life to be lived to have my face buried in a phone all day.
Besides that the cost is unacceptable. They have taken a service that should cost around $20 per month tops and have people paying near (or over) $100 per month! Truly insane
I've found no compelling reason whatsoever to have any more functionality than being able to call someone and have them answer. (and even that is only for emergency type situations. Spending a bunch of time casually chatting on the phone is useless.)
(Yes, I know, I'm old school. I drive my daughter crazy. I don't even text. I figure if it's important enough they'll call me. And if they won't call me obviosuly it's not important)
Look, you can keep repeating this mantra all you want. But, all it does is show you are missing the point.
Mobile phones have evolved way beyond just making phone calls. If that's all you do, then a simple flip phone meets your needs. But, your needs no longer drive the mobile phone market.
Some days, I use my phone for 5 minutes. But, for others I may use it all day, especially for email. I don't carry my laptop from meeting to meeting, but I have to deal with high-priority issues that arise, or someone will be waiting all day for my response.
Phone calls can be very disruptive. I can't take one without bothering the people around me. I can't make one without doing so, either. But, I can email or text to deal with both mundane and important things, without imposing my life on everyone around me. You may think that's a waste of time, but I consider it to be polite.
With all the applications that are available, people use their phones for things we couldn't even imagine 10 years ago. You can choose to stay in the past decade, but most other mobile phone users have moved on. You've made your choice: let everyone else make theirs, and stop whining.