> Giving your child a smartphone is like giving them a gram of cocaine, says top addiction expert
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/education/education-news/child-smart-phones-cocaine-addiction-expert-mandy-saligari-harley-street-charter-clinic-technology-a7777941.html
> Association of mobile phone radiation with fatigue, headache, dizziness, tension and sleep disturbance in Saudi population.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15195201
> Smartphone-induced sleep deprivation and its implications for public health
http://www.europeanpublichealth.com/news-and-opinion/smartphone-induced-sleep-deprivation-and-its-implications-for-public-health/
>>62268557
I have a job though
I don't have a phone at all, let alone a smartphone.
>>62268557
All they are is crap laptops that can't run anything.
Biggest scam going.
>>62268557
>being proud to be a luddite
faggot
basically same shit theyve been talking about computers
and youre on 4chan i can tell youre abusing it 10x worse than normies
>>62269079
this
If it weren't smartphones it would be computers
If it weren't computers it would be books
>>62268557
>Who else here is free from the (((smartphone))) ?
I never had one
Story
>down stairs neighbor
>a 82y old woman
>asks me if I can get her daughters number from her smartphone
>hands me the phone
>I never touched a smartphone in my life
>it took me like 6 or 7 minutes to do it
this was 1 year ago
>>62269064
Mobile phones are 'cooking' men's sperm: Study finds sperm levels of men who kept their phones in their pocket during the day were quite seriously affected in 47 per cent of cases
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/health/news/12167957/Mobile-phones-are-cooking-mens-sperm.html
Enjoy
I would actually be using a smartphone for text messaging if they're weren't so damn unreliable. Not only are they stupidly breakable, but they run out of battery every other day even though I never even touch the damn thing. What fucking gives? How is this appealing? I get like two texts a week, and my phone is always dead on the seldom occasion that I need to actually check the time or send off a message. It's so fucking stupid.
People pay +$500 for these things, and they're basically glorified GameBoys.
I'm trying to be but I just can't find a dumb phone that I actually like. People keep recommending me the Motorola RAZR but I don't like how you don't have group messages. Is there something else worth it out there?
>>62269377
You're not paying $500 if you run out of battery every other day on standby.
>>62268557
All the normies have screen addiction now.
In the 90's and early 2000's and even until about 2010 only neckbeard virgin hackers did.
Thanks Apple/Facebook.
>>62269047
I agree. It's all gimped and botnet devices.
Okay Grandpa, go back to the retirement home now
>>62269794
It was the iPhone 6 on low power mode
>>62269377
Android is really bad about this from my experience. There are numerous applications running on mfg. stock that go totally unused and eat up cycles, this is especially bad on older versions of android. I don't know what the development paradigms on Android are but it's evident that effeciency in any category was scrapped during the genesis of the OS.
With that said, they're pretty dandy as a PMP/internet device. There's nothing particularly interesting or addicting about them though. ADD kids will constantly be playing with them, introverts will use them as a crutch, kids with social anxiety will do the same. It's just a means to stream constant stimulus in a world that shapes the mind to accept uninterrupted information.
I guess the only concerning argument has to be that fingerprinting methods used in phones might (will and has) lead to data shaping. This is potentially dangerous with the echo box effect, which has been discussed heavily here. If you push that kind of aggressive marketing and aggrandizement of topics then you could select and build entirely new cultures of sheep to manipulate. It's a fairly intimidating concept but I honestly believe it's well within the realm of possibility to manipulate people in such a fashion.