Well, I’ve had my
smartphone now for over two years, and I remain completely unconverted. It
remains an expensive piece of not very much, which sits beside me on the desk,
or is tucked away in my back pocket when I am out.
Since I moved into
rental accommodation I decided not to have a land line (except for the
internet), so my smartphone is now my only phone, and it occasionally gets used
as such. For the rest, I have texted occasionally; a few times I have used it
to browse the internet, because I was too lazy to walk over to the computer,
which is rarely more than a few feet away; I have used it to do my banking,
which, again, I could have easily done on the computer. So a few times it has
saved me the terrible effort of having to stand up from the couch and walk the four
or five feet to my desk. For this privilege I pay how much a month?
As for the rest of the
wonderful things people apparently do with their phones... Clearly none of them
interest me. I have tried a few apps. They invariably sit there unused, taking
up unneeded space on my hard drive.
Obviously I don’t live
in the same world as those people who (apparently) consider their smartphone an
invaluable asset, something that has changed their lives, and something they
could not manage without.
When I buy a new phone I would happily replace it with
a dumb one. Except that’s probably not even possible anymore.
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