The other thing I found surprising when looking through the reports is that feature phones (dumbphones) are still outselling smartphones by a ratio of 2:1 . Considering how cheaply some smartphones can be bought now, that really surprises me. Must have something to do with technophobia.
I was really reluctant to buy a smartphone (and only did so over this weekend, still waiting for it)
There are a couple of reasons. I like the traditional 12 keys in 4 rows of 3. While there are smartphones with that, sure, most of them either come with a touchscreen or qwerty keyboard.
The battery life is way longer on "dumbphones". Most people I know tell me they have to charge their smartphones every day or every couple of days, my current phone, even with its color screen and my habit of taking pictures (it has autofocus and flash), lasts for like a week.
It seems to me smartphones look like better targets for muggers.
In all honesty, I would rarely need the functions a smartphone brings, and most of those are internet related. At the moment, internet subscriptions are sort of expensive at least for me.
Those are some of my own personal reasons for
not delaying joining the smartphone mania.
I'm gonna keep my dumbphone around in case 'something happens' to my smartphone.