Smartphones not so clever at promoting social inclusion

By Mathew Dickerson
June 3 2019 - 7:30am

I recently wrote a poem called 'Tomorrow's Smartphone User' and it focused on the fact that a modern smartphone has so many wonderful features that it may be easy for a smartphone user of the future to forget that it is still capable of actually making voice phone calls. In the 18-29 age bracket, 52 per cent of smartphone users make a phone call less often than weekly. That same age bracket has average usage of over four hours per day. There is no doubt that younger generations use smartphones - just not for phone calls!

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