I didn't mean to offend you if you had a flip phone and I apologize. If all you ever wanted from a phone device was to talk to people, then your flip phone will do the trick.  You don't even need the flip phone, the phone in your house will allow you to talk to other people.  Your flip phone allows you to talk to people no matter where you're at.  A smart phone lets you do a lot of things no matter where you're at.

I don't do a lot of texting or web browsing with my phone, some, but not a lot. I use my smart phone for the following:

- Camera to take pictures of crops, weeds, broken parts, serial numbers, measurements, linkage before I disassemble it.  Hundreds of picutres on my phone serve as my reminders that my memory would not be able to hold.  My camera can often see behind things better than I can with my own eyes.
- Read email when sitting in line anywhere
- Monitor market prices, sell grain.
- Flashlight
- Calculate the amount of grain left in my bins while I'm standing next to them
- Read operator and service manuals when I need to since I always have them on my phone
- Log notes in my crop journal while scouting fields
- Access my marketing plan and numerous other documents
- Look up parts online
- Feed MNCORS RTK corrections to my autosteer
- Monitor the weather to know when rain is moving in (or when the sun might shine in the case of 2013)
- GPS device to navigate me to auctions, dealerships, farm yards I have never been to before. 
- That's just what I can quickly come up with, I'm sure there is more I'm not thinking about.  

I like technology, that also influences why I speak more highly of smart phones than prior phone devices.  I'll use less harsh analogies in the future though.