51 Quotes About Smartphones

People who smile while they are alone used to be called insane, until we invented smartphones and social media.

Our addiction to control ends up controlling us.

Вера держала свой телефон, как бутерброд, будто готовясь пожрать собеседника, и давала обещания, что тоже пойдет, если и у него что-то такое случится, Аню скрючило возле двери, и она только отвечала тихо: «Да, да, сейчас».

Smartphone is definitely smarter than us to be able to keep us addicted to it.

As a result, we suffer from Neomania - an addition to anything new within the last five minutes.

Those who find it hypocritical of others to use, say, a smartphone, to speak ill of capitalism, needs to be reminded that capitalism is an ideology, not a technology.

Phones with numerical keypads worked best for dialing phone calls. Incidentally, phone calls tend to be the primary function of a phone. 'Smartphones' completely ignore these basic facts, resulting in some of the least intelligent devices I've seen yet. Oh the irony.

If you wanted to invent a device that could rewire our minds, if you wanted to create a society of people who were perpetually distracted, isolated, and overtired, if you wanted to weaken our memories and damage our capacity for focus and deep thought, if you wanted to reduce empathy, encourage self-absorption, and redraw the lines of social etiquette, you'd likely end up with a smartphone.

Chinese laborers "finish" smartphones by wiping off any fingerprints with a highly toxic solvent proven to shorten the workers lives. That's how valuable it is for consumers to believe their devices have been assembled by magic rather than by the fingers of underpaid and poisoned children.