Never have had a smartphone, and don't really want one. Can they be handy? Yes. Can they be useful business tools? Yes.
In the end though, they are way more problematic:
Standby and talk time battery life just isn't there.
I don't want to be tracked not just by the phone company, but by Apple or Google, or any other company with an app on the thing.
Security is another issue, especially if you're connecting to a VPN or other business resources.
When I'm meeting with someone, they and the topic at hand are the subject of my focus. Smartphones destroy that focus.
Smartphones are making us dumber, ruder and less considerate of others. I've watched twenty-something couples out on dinner dates never speak, but completely focused on their smartphones--even when eating. Someone you want to introduce yourself to? They're doing something on their smartphone. And there's nothing more irritating than speaking to someone about a project and they whip out their smartphone to text or update/check statuses. "It's ok, I can multitask." Yeah, right.
thanks to GSM they still know where you are (within several hundred feet); However you are right, no internet usage means that there is a smaller footprint, less information they can track.
In the end though, they are way more problematic:
Standby and talk time battery life just isn't there.
I don't want to be tracked not just by the phone company, but by Apple or Google, or any other company with an app on the thing.
Security is another issue, especially if you're connecting to a VPN or other business resources.
When I'm meeting with someone, they and the topic at hand are the subject of my focus. Smartphones destroy that focus.
Smartphones are making us dumber, ruder and less considerate of others. I've watched twenty-something couples out on dinner dates never speak, but completely focused on their smartphones--even when eating. Someone you want to introduce yourself to? They're doing something on their smartphone. And there's nothing more irritating than speaking to someone about a project and they whip out their smartphone to text or update/check statuses. "It's ok, I can multitask." Yeah, right.