I'm on neither side, first off smartphones are way, WAY too expensive, second, when I see how smart phones turn people into what I call social zombies, I'm like definitely no thanks and third, I don't know in your countries but in mine since last year the government made identification mandatory meaning you cannot have a phone of any kind without giving all your personal details when getting the phone. I had a basic phone until last year and I deactivated it when that law went into effect. The excuse being terrorism... In other words: Mass surveillance of people when they're on their phones.
Yeah good excuse dear gov, but here is the thing: I'm a regular boring guy not a terrorist so I reckon I don't need to ID myself to have a phone and since that is now impossible, I've been henceforward free of that contraption. And as a bonus I now save whatever money that phone or a smartphone would have cost me.







