Are there others here who, like me, don't have a 'smartphone'?
I've just never needed one. I have a laptop though, and that's what I'm using now to type this.
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ArishMell · 70-79, M
I don't.
Most of my telephone calls are via land-line (I need a reasonable broadband service for my computer uses, and no those do [i]not[/i] include using it as a substitute television).
My portable telephone is a simple 3G one on PAYG. Its primary function is speech telephony, text a rather inefficient second. Its few auxiliaries I don't often use, include a low-quality camera and more useful alarm-clock. It's not connected to the Internet, though theoretically could be, assuming you could read any web-site on a screen smaller than a playing-card.
I had a so-called "smart-'phone" some 5 years ago; an LG2017. Could not get on with it: a heavy, clumsy and very confusing contraption full of gimmicks I neither need nor want; but lacking its most important facility, that of making and receiving telephone calls readily and easily. I paid off the 2-year contract and sold the 'phone after only a few months.
As for the adjective, using it in its American meaning, it is not the telephone that is "smart" but the people who designed and programmed it. The instrument is only a box of electronics.
Most of my telephone calls are via land-line (I need a reasonable broadband service for my computer uses, and no those do [i]not[/i] include using it as a substitute television).
My portable telephone is a simple 3G one on PAYG. Its primary function is speech telephony, text a rather inefficient second. Its few auxiliaries I don't often use, include a low-quality camera and more useful alarm-clock. It's not connected to the Internet, though theoretically could be, assuming you could read any web-site on a screen smaller than a playing-card.
I had a so-called "smart-'phone" some 5 years ago; an LG2017. Could not get on with it: a heavy, clumsy and very confusing contraption full of gimmicks I neither need nor want; but lacking its most important facility, that of making and receiving telephone calls readily and easily. I paid off the 2-year contract and sold the 'phone after only a few months.
As for the adjective, using it in its American meaning, it is not the telephone that is "smart" but the people who designed and programmed it. The instrument is only a box of electronics.
