My husband and I as older people, could not do without our Smartphones.  We could not dispense with ours now in todays society, as just one example we booked an Uber on our phone to take us to Wimbledon theatre it gives the make of car, registration of the Car, the drivers name and a countdown to his arrival on the smartphone.  The vast majority of the people gaining entry into the Theatre showed their Covid Passport on their smartphones.  On coming out we booked another Uber outside the theatre to go home on our phone and got the usual information until he pulled up outside.  Just an example of how the world is changing and how reliant we have become on our Smartphones. I have a new iPhone arriving today and I can just put the old and new phones side by side to Bluetooth all the info over onto the new phone.  Cheers FWIW Vicki

Alfred. I agree with your point about automated bookings, the point I was making is that one receives real time information on the drivers location and ETA.  Cheers Vicki

I guess you can always think of a reason where a smartphone would be useful as in your example Vicki. In my experience of taxis, I find it reasonably straightforward to use my mobile from home to summons the taxi, they generally tell you how long they will be, you can even book one for a day or two in advance. Coming home I use my mobile phone to get my taxi.

I appreciate you cannot get a neat display of the location or ETA of the taxi using my 20th century method, but it works reasonably well.

A few years ago we went to see a recording of "Pointless" at Boreham Wood. We had to print out our email invitation and show it at the door to the studio. I think we were the only members of the audience to do this as most people had their invitations on their smartphones.

It's the same as ordering a takeaway from the local restaurant, most people appear to use an app on their smartphones for this, I pick up my mobile and order it as normal. No hassle and perfectly fine.

I think it's a question of what you have never had you do not miss.

Joe, you are of course correct about no Uber in Cornwall. as my husband would say......Kernow bys vyken.  Vicki.

Mobile phones have other uses.  As a SatNav when you are out driving, or even walking. I use mine mainly to surf the net.  I rarely use it for phone calls.

Unfortunately our local COVID Tracer App doesn't work on my old Android so I have to manually sign in when required and my Vaccine Pass I have printed out.  For security concerns I never use my phone for internet banking.

Definitely the end isn't in sight.  But what concerns me is that folk have so much on their phone and should they lose their phone or it stop working.........