Smartphones are just one more thing to rob, along with cash and jewellery. With smartphone penetration on the rise, it's pretty obvious that more robberies wou

Smartphones are just one more thing to rob, along with cash and jewellery. With smartphone penetration on the rise, it's pretty obvious that more robberies would involve smartphones, but it wouldn't necessarily mean that smartphones are responsible for a rise in robberies. Having said that, waving a $700 smartphone around in public will mark you as a potential target, rather than the person next to you with an old-school flip-phone.