What is it with these so called smart phones?

[T1 Terry]

This thread was triggered by a tag line Ray made on another thread, rather than drag that one off topic, I thought I put it close to where it belongs, it may be interesting to some

“PS. I don't own a smart-phone (yet - it's inevitable), and don't even use all the facilities on my 'dumb' phone!”

I call them "stroke it" phones, it won't do anything till you stroke it a bit. Is it that the phone is smart, or just it seems that way compared to the average user of them.
Soon to be 21 yr old daughter sat for 20 mins downloading all the photos on her phone at one of those photo printing sites at Hardly Normal, then planned to spend another 30 mins or more deciding what photos she really wanted When asked why she didn't just delete the ones she didn't want from her phone, or download them all at home, decide what she wanted and then put them on a thumb drive..... the look of confusion before the light bulb came up was scarey, she is an honours grade uni student
Guess what she wants for her 21st present, a Polaroid camera They tell me if you still have your old one they are worth over $200 on the net, they have started remaking them, $89 for the camera and $20 for a 10 photo film pack, technology is wasted on the young, I'm sure of it, a phone that takes 8 meg pixel digital photos for free, but a camera that cost $20 for each 10 photos is regarded in high esteem to them
Putting my tin hat on now and heading for the fall out shelters

[Macca]

[Mrcoolabah1au]

Modern technocolgy

[SteveW]

Putting my tin hat on now and heading for the fall out shelters

Don't worry, Terry. She won't notice what you said. You've written long hand and the young ones wont have the patience to read that far.

[generdawg]

...it won't do anything till you stroke it...

Just like a cat.

dawg (but first you got to feed it )

[Rover All Over]

Well I've got a smart phone but must not be too smart because all I do with it is make calls, send or read text messages, and answer calls, what else is a phone for anyway

[T1 Terry]

My thought exactly, the more flashy things it does, the more the connection fees cost and the more trouble it gives. Why would I want to view the internet on my phone? why would I want to send or receive photos on my phone.... but the calculator and wake up alarm are handy especially when the alarm is set to talk

[SteveW]

But "Toilet Finder" is handy

[Greynomad]

Your phone will find the nearest dunny???

Something is wrong with the world.
What happened to signposts pointing to the "Public Toilet"?

[SteveW]

Well, I can enlarge the writing on the smart phone but I can't enlarge the sign on the post.