About battery life: My smartphone when it's used as nothing but a normal phone has a battery that lasts longer than my older phones ever did, six or seven days.
Doing what a phone should be doing? I'm going to assume texting is included. A phone needs to place calls and send messages. Fine. Most smartphones have apps that allow you to perform both of these via the Internet failing a strong enough signal. Smartphones also have spell-check, auto-correct (sometimes faulty), and occasionally even voice commands to send messages without even typing.
Break easily? Well, no real argument there. I used to play cornhole (game in the US for those not familiar) with my phone with no ill effects. However, my smartphone hasn't broken either, mainly because I've actually been mildly careful with it.
Quality standards? Consider the differences between your laptop and a smartphone. Less processing power and a smaller screen are the two largest differences with everything else squished into a little tiny piece of machinery that can fit into the palm of your hand. They also seem to break at a similar rate. I've had my phone for a few years with no ill effects and nothing breaking at all without even a case on it.
Touchscreens are imprecise? A bit yeah but you can certainly get used to it and the customization of buttons certainly makes up for the difference. At this point with auto-correct in place I actually type nearly as fast on my phone as on an actual full-size keyboard. Touchscreens also let you select a certain portion of text easily and quickly, enables the use of more buttons and more descriptive buttons (if you have a QWERTY type, they won't have more than two things programmed to the q most likely).
Better for browsing the Internet? Unbelievably so. It may just be me but if ever a topic is brought up that I want to know more about, I can pull up the wiki on the subject within literally 15 seconds. My laptop wouldn't even have my log-in page up yet.
Carrying a laptop is a hassle. How exactly is it laziness to admit that carrying around something 11"x7"x1" is more of a pain than something that fits in a pocket? That's just common sense.
Better cameras? If you're comparing current cameras compared to current phone cameras, then yes they are inferior. However, the first digital camera my family ever owned IIRC was 2 megapixel, exactly what my phone now has.
Degradation of perceptions? Again, not really. In the past, we didn't have HD, now we do and there are legitimately people out there who don't like going backwards at all. Also, most every phone now supports lossless formats of songs, which coupled with higher quality headphones, will produce that 1% difference in perceptible quality that a large portion of the population legitimately CAN'T notice because of age and hearing damage.
The games? Currently on my phone I have a full-scale MMORPG with about as good of graphics as the original WOW. I also have another RPG with considerably better graphics, online capabilites, and a storyline that actually has some depth to it. These were both "free" (micro transactions store). Also, you're simply not going to get people to pay $50 for a full-scale game released on their phone when gaming on a console or PC is immensely better. Also, with the variety of OS, game developers are not going to spend their time porting over full-scale games because the markets are simply not large enough to justify doing so.
The lack of copy/paste functionality in the iPhone was a software issue, not hardware. Also, Apple is not the smartphone industry.
Again Apple is not the only smartphone manufacturer out there. Most of the people I talk to that are tech literate have Android phones and are extremely happy with them. The only reason I have an iPhone is because it was completely free.
As for consumer sheep, no arguments there. Don't condemn an entire industry just because you have issue with a single company's policies and products. Many people despise Apple.
Is it normal to think simple phones are better than smartphones?
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About battery life: My smartphone when it's used as nothing but a normal phone has a battery that lasts longer than my older phones ever did, six or seven days.
Doing what a phone should be doing? I'm going to assume texting is included. A phone needs to place calls and send messages. Fine. Most smartphones have apps that allow you to perform both of these via the Internet failing a strong enough signal. Smartphones also have spell-check, auto-correct (sometimes faulty), and occasionally even voice commands to send messages without even typing.
Break easily? Well, no real argument there. I used to play cornhole (game in the US for those not familiar) with my phone with no ill effects. However, my smartphone hasn't broken either, mainly because I've actually been mildly careful with it.
Quality standards? Consider the differences between your laptop and a smartphone. Less processing power and a smaller screen are the two largest differences with everything else squished into a little tiny piece of machinery that can fit into the palm of your hand. They also seem to break at a similar rate. I've had my phone for a few years with no ill effects and nothing breaking at all without even a case on it.
Touchscreens are imprecise? A bit yeah but you can certainly get used to it and the customization of buttons certainly makes up for the difference. At this point with auto-correct in place I actually type nearly as fast on my phone as on an actual full-size keyboard. Touchscreens also let you select a certain portion of text easily and quickly, enables the use of more buttons and more descriptive buttons (if you have a QWERTY type, they won't have more than two things programmed to the q most likely).
Better for browsing the Internet? Unbelievably so. It may just be me but if ever a topic is brought up that I want to know more about, I can pull up the wiki on the subject within literally 15 seconds. My laptop wouldn't even have my log-in page up yet.
Carrying a laptop is a hassle. How exactly is it laziness to admit that carrying around something 11"x7"x1" is more of a pain than something that fits in a pocket? That's just common sense.
Better cameras? If you're comparing current cameras compared to current phone cameras, then yes they are inferior. However, the first digital camera my family ever owned IIRC was 2 megapixel, exactly what my phone now has.
Degradation of perceptions? Again, not really. In the past, we didn't have HD, now we do and there are legitimately people out there who don't like going backwards at all. Also, most every phone now supports lossless formats of songs, which coupled with higher quality headphones, will produce that 1% difference in perceptible quality that a large portion of the population legitimately CAN'T notice because of age and hearing damage.
The games? Currently on my phone I have a full-scale MMORPG with about as good of graphics as the original WOW. I also have another RPG with considerably better graphics, online capabilites, and a storyline that actually has some depth to it. These were both "free" (micro transactions store). Also, you're simply not going to get people to pay $50 for a full-scale game released on their phone when gaming on a console or PC is immensely better. Also, with the variety of OS, game developers are not going to spend their time porting over full-scale games because the markets are simply not large enough to justify doing so.
The lack of copy/paste functionality in the iPhone was a software issue, not hardware. Also, Apple is not the smartphone industry.
Again Apple is not the only smartphone manufacturer out there. Most of the people I talk to that are tech literate have Android phones and are extremely happy with them. The only reason I have an iPhone is because it was completely free.
As for consumer sheep, no arguments there. Don't condemn an entire industry just because you have issue with a single company's policies and products. Many people despise Apple.