Okay. Apology accepted. Sorry for calling you out.

Because you seem genuinely confused by what happened, I suggest you consider the empathy of the situation. Smartphones are all over the place. Plenty of people use them for all sorts of stuff. They're hardly a deviant possession. You, yourself, are conversing on an esoteric social network that leans toward technology. And while you do not possess nor desire a smartphone, odds are good that many people here do.

You likely have a good sense that your position is the outlier. Yet you do not speak from an outlier footing - you enforce your viewpoint on everyone else: "This is a serious question: why would anyone want a smartphone? Never owned one, don't think I would seriously consider getting one instead of my phone." Your arguments are borderline fatuous - yes, your phone has a keyboard but if you want to text someone you're stuck in the T9 backwater of 2001. And while I'm sure your phone gets great reception, the possession of an operating system does not make reception worse. The fact of the matter is you have no need for LTE, no need for 4G, no need for anything other than the raw voice carrier so really, it's not that you're getting better reception than everyone else it's that your phone is so primitive that you can't use a decent signal.

And you're not an idiot. It's not like you haven't thought about this before. It's not that you've succinctly determined that everyone else that possesses a smart phone is completely wrong about their wants and needs.

But that's the way you present your argument.

Know what wins arguments? Empathy. An understanding of your counterpart's position, argument and logic so that you can address their concerns on their terms. Any casual student of culture will recognize that people with smart phones use them too much, not too little so arguing that they're irrelevant only serves to alienate yourself from the person you're addressing.

And we know we're not weird.

Anybody walking into a store right now is about three times as likely to buy a smartphone as a conventional handpiece. So if you're going to argue that three out of four people own something they don't need, you should probably start by acknowledging the truth on the ground that you're the outlier, not them.