> The world has moved on, and your traditional cellular phone and SMS system is only slightly more useful than the telegraph (especially outside of the USA).

I don't find that. I broke down and got an Android phone some years back because I needed it for work, and I've since gotten a newer one. It's nice but it doesn't do anything that I consider important other than phone calls and SMS. I use it for road navigation, but previously used a standalone Garmin GPS that was superior in many ways. I occasionally check email or look at web sites while outside the house, but it's usually not that important. And I use the camera and clock, but I had a digicam and wristwatch before that, so again not that big a deal.

I know some people are glued to their phones night and day but it doesn't exicte me that much. I'm as much of an internet zombie as most people here, but primarily at home, where I mostly use a laptop rather than a phone. The phone isn't a good substitute since it has a tiny screen, no keyboard, and too much of a GUI-driven OS. I prefer a traditional CLI environment with gcc and emacs and so on.