Who doesn’t want a smart phone?

They access the inter­net any­where and any­time, allow you to use hun­dreds of appli­ca­tions, snap pic­tures, record video, play music and movies, and even make phone calls (in case you for­got).

Smartphones are get­ting more and more pop­u­lar, but do most peo­ple really need one? Sure, we have access to all of the infor­ma­tion we would ever need, but that doesn’t make us any smarter. In a way, we become unap­pre­cia­tive of this knowl­edge and begin to take it for granted. Instead of mem­o­riz­ing any­thing, we just look it up. Most of the time, we use our smart­phones to look up use­less knowledge.

It appears the temp­ta­tion of hav­ing such a cool device is too over­whelm­ing. Instead of bas­ing our phone plans on our needs, we (or our par­ents) spend loads of cash on phone plans with unlim­ited every­thing. Not to men­tion all of the money being spent on apps, themes, games, and ringtones.

I am all for new tech­nolo­gies and I would really love to pick up the new iPhone; how­ever, I can’t jus­tify spend­ing such a large amount of money on what is essen­tially a luxury.

To be hon­est, I would rather have an iPad than an iPhone. The screen size is big­ger, the hard­ware is bet­ter, and I would not have to deal with awful recep­tion. Also, it would be sav­ing me a lot of money on phone bills. I know, I know, what about the 3G right (or is it 4G now, I can’t remem­ber)? Sure, 3G cov­er­age is great, but I already have WiFi in my apart­ment, on cam­pus, and it is avail­i­able in most restau­rants and cof­fee shops.

Even though I’m fine with­out one (really, I swear), I still get the urge to buy a smart­phone every now and then. It would be really nice to have one, but I just don’t see any rea­son for it. n