[MassWholeBimmer]

64 year old and could not live without a smart phone. I never use it when out dining with company as the teens do on the original post, don't really use it for texts (I probably get/send maybe 150 a year).

Just the convenience of having it for me is worth it. Case in point on convenience....

A few months ago I was in Dallas on business, just about to leave my hotel for a 9 am flight. I get a cell phone / alert from my Delta app saying my flight was delayed 4 hours. If not for that alert, I would have driven to the airport and spent an extra 4 hours their, rather than killing the time in my hotel room.