Smartphones are everywhere

[MattKing]

It is seldom that you ever see a zombie with a newspaper.

Sadly, nowadays it is seldom that you ever see a person with a newspaper.

 

[RalphLambrecht]

I don’t have a smartphone but a small cellular telephone with a prepay card.

+1; most cost effective way to have a mobile phone.

 

[MattKing]

My wife and I share an account with one older smartphone, one flip-phone with some rudimentary smartphone features and one tablet computer with a built in cellular modem.
Judicious use of certain free calling features and WiFi means that the three together cost us less than $85.00 CDN per month.
And the flip-phone in particular works really well as a phone.

 

[Helinophoto]

Yes, on them and in use at every opportunity, no matter what. Mine has made me very fluent in using every curse-word in the English language, that I know and a few German ones that I have learned, and that is just to turn the xxxx thing on. I have all (too many) cameras now and all I need a "smart" phone for is for phone calls and it takes me longer to do that than a "land" phone ever did. I know it is a lack of knowledge on my part but can't they make a device that just makes "PHONE CALLS" for people who don't need or want all the other crap?......Regards!

They exist
https://gadgets.ndtv.com/mitashi-play-senior-friend-2075

 

[benjiboy]

No offense to Japanese (who let's say have an enthusiasm for technology, and are today's leaders in much of the highest technology), but I remember in the 1980s I would see tour bus pull up and Japanese would come out each practically holding a video camera in one hand and an SLR in the other. Somehow I managed to bypass the video era without getting pulled in (I did play with 8 mm and super 8 as a teenager though, maybe that was enough for me). VHS or beta, 8mm digital tape? Nah, none of it; though my Fuji XT-2 was the talk of the town for 4k for a while. I did try it for about 30 seconds, and that was about it since buying the XT-2 ( about 7 mos.).

On a weekend in London a few years ago we were on Tower Hill ( opposite The Tower Of London ) and a tour bus stopped and discouraged about forty Japanese tourists who were hung with cameras and photographing everything that moved, the guy I was with remarked "look at that lot Ben, how the hell did they ever find Pearl Harbour ?.