[simmonmt]

I think the mismatch here is in your definition of smartphone. Expand the definition to include any feature beyond placing and receiving phone calls. I live right next door to takes perverse pride in his inability to text. It's a thing.

[scarface_74]

No one would call an old phone with T9 texting a “smart phone”. Any phone out since at least 2002 could send and receive texts

[hn_throwaway_99]

This whole thread is basically "People who refuse to use technology that has been commonplace for 25 years". Not that they can't use that technology, or that it's unavailable (where I live there are a bunch of programs that give free cellphones to homeless people because it's such a valuable tool for them), but that they just refuse to.

So? I mean bully for them I guess, but why should anyone else care?