I rise to defend my smart phone against the partisans of flip phones and Light Phones.
On my smart phone, I can:
- Listen to podcasts.
- Send and receive emails on multiple accounts
- Read books and blogs
- Keep a journal that synchronizes with my desktop computer
- Check the weather for wherever I happen to be
- Take remarkably good photographs
- Do my bookkeeping or at least enter transactions that will synchronize with my desktop
- Scan just about anything into a PDF
- Connect to a continuous glucose sensor to monitor my blood sugar
- Easily earn loyalty points at my favorite restaurant chains
- Innumerable trivial things (e.g., Solitaire) including things that as a practical matter I never do, though I haven’t deleted all the apps.
- Make and receive phone calls and texts, including end-to-end encrypted texts.
I am not evangelizing, but I am explaining why you’re not going to shame me out of my smart phone.