(August 8, 2018 at 9:20 pm)bennyboy Wrote:(August 8, 2018 at 8:52 pm)Alexmahone Wrote: Most of us own a pocket-sized computer that can do literally hundreds of things, one of which is making phone calls. So why are these miniature computers called "smartphones"?
Because the ability to call is probably the only function that, if it were missing, would cause you not to carry that device around any more.
That's probably it, for most people. But my husband and I didn't own smartphones (well, we had windows phones very briefly) until we decided to move overseas. Now, I hate using the phone feature, and every time it rings (which is about twice a month at most), I about have a panic attack. I think my husband's is used as a phone maybe 5 or 6 times total in the last 14 months.
We text each other if we need to communicate, and other than that it is basically my GPS and portable translator. I do have a word game and coloring book app on there for if we are stuck somewhere and me or my daughter are really bored, and I can and do use it to access AF to play mafia if I'm out for a while. But as a phone? No. That is it's least used function for us.
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