> I don't feel smartphones are inherently problematic. The point I was making is you can get the bits of smartphone functionality you want without the temptati

> I don't feel smartphones are inherently problematic. The point I was making is you can get the bits of smartphone functionality you want without the temptation of an actual smartphone. GPS and the web access exist on phones that are completely unable to interrupt your day with algorithmic feeds. People still buy ancient phones like a Nokia 6300 because they do enough to be useful ie GPS. You can even swap to such a phone on your current cellphone plan for a camping trip without becoming totally unreachable. That said, installing apps on a smartphones are almost required in some situations like cruse ships. Great web browsing, top of the line cameras, etc are just hard to beat as long as you can deal with the algorithmic time sinks.