[mikewarot]

I have never owned a smartphone, but have a reasonable amount of experience helping others with them, as an IT guy in a previous life.

People have unreasonable expectations about getting replies to texts or emails. Those are asynchronous channels of communication on a smartphone. If you want an answer now, use the telephone as intended, call me. If it's not worth the seemingly endless stress of using a telephone as intended, then please patiently wait for my reply. ;-)

The only time I miss having one is getting around traffic (I know how to get places, I grew up before the internet). Sure, traffic news on the radio helps, but it's not repeated often enough to be useful.

The reason I don't own a smartphone is simple... I know I'd get addicted to it, and become a worse person as a result.