[NotGargarin]

I would say that a smartphone is not quite so reliable as this author seems to think. Batteries and signal fail all the time, for one. The drama that can be created with smartphones is at least as much as that created with a landline. Text messages, for example: what about a message half written and accidentally sent, or the sending of a risky text and seeing a long typing indicator before recieving just "OK", or perhaps an unsent message left to be rediscovered a day or so later, after everything has changed? Or with calls: the embarrassment of realising too late that you're on speaker, or calling a hundred times and hearing only "the number you are calling is not available" (why? Is it no signal, have they turned off their phone?), or even just getting a call from an unknown number, which has all the mystery of a call from a landline. Even caller ID has drama: why are they calling at this hour? Is the person on the phone the same as the caller ID? Social media adds so much, too. Is it Facebook, where you're friends with your parents, or Snapchat, with just your friends? Is it a public post, or a select group? There's so much scope for drama, and we're seeing more and more use of it in modern writing.