I have a smart phone and love it.
When I am in a waiting room ( lots of that lately for me) I can ignore CNN on the TV, and come here to FR, or see what headlines are on Drudge, or surf the news——Breitbart, News-busters, etc. I can email, go to google and whatever. Keeps me occupied, and happy. My bookmarks have language lessons, poetry, and so on.
AND —— when my computer at home goes down for what ever reason— power outage or techie problem, I have my smart phone to lean on.
Oh ya— I can make phone calls and send text messages, too.
I am not a techie person and rarely go to Facebook, but I do love my Smart Phone. ( and I’m not into games.)
Not trying to get you to have one, dear FRiends. Just pointing out some of their advantages.
I understand the allure, I just don’t need the distraction :-0
I hate the little tiny screen. My eyes aren’t great anymore and I like my laptop. If I’m not where I can get online, I just deal with not being able to get online. I mean, I lived a good 30 years without internet, before it became The Thing. I can manage.
Those are good smartphone advantages you pointed out. Me, I’m a map freak. I used to have a sizeable library of detail map books in my car for every major city on the east coast — a big boxful taking up room in all the car pockets and the trunk. Now, I just have the little smartphone and two or three wide-radius paper maps.