I spent about 10 years on and off on the road and didn't have any phone at all for most of it. There are non-smartphone ways to do those things. Edit: if you c

I spent about 10 years on and off on the road and didn't have any phone at all for most of it. There are non-smartphone ways to do those things. Edit: if you calculate the total time wasted by smartphones in general with the total time saved by checking in to flights on a smartphone, the phone is wasting a lot of time (not to mention the detrimental cognitive effects).