I do think there's still a difference between choosing to live without electricity vs. without smart phones. They're similar in that they don't address immedia

I do think there's still a difference between choosing to live without electricity vs. without smart phones. They're similar in that they don't address immediate survival needs, but rather are there to make life more comfortable. But electricity is a much more basic service while smart phones are an order of magnitude more high-level. As a result, a lot of the benefits that are provided by smart phones have competitors (office land line, desktop computers, etc.) which cannot provide all the advantages of smart phones (and are not integrated into a single device) but in sum make it much easier, I would say, to live a modern life without a smart phone than to live one without electricity.