On my smart phone, I can:
- Listen to podcasts, about which I’m quite selective.
- 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
- Quickly scan just about anything into a PDF
- Connect to a continuous glucose sensor to monitor my blood sugar (which helps me control my weight, too)
- Easily earn loyalty points at my favorite restaurant chains
- and yes, innumerable trivial things (e.g., Solitaire) including things that as a practical matter I never do, though I haven’t deleted all the apps.
I am not evangelizing, but I am explaining why you’re not going to shame me out of my smart phone.