I would think a smart phone has the capability to do what a “standard phone” doesn’t. So hooking up to the internet, the use of apps et al.
I can see where you are coming from, but even house phones connect to internet today, with the new fibre optics, so today that is just a standard phone, if the internet has some thing which can be accessed by the phone which can do smart things, that does not make the phone smart.
A person who is smart, can have two meanings, they can look tidy, or they can be intelligent, he may dress smart, but still be thick. I use my phone to communicate with, to take pictures with, and to find my location, so it is three tools in one. It also has a built in calculator. I see no AI in those functions.
By combining the functions it can also tell some one else where I am. Maybe that combination of functions could be considered smart, but to split the functions would mean it looses the ability to work with other smart devices like my central heating which can respond to my location, however I would say it is the central heating being smart not my phone.
However before one can have any debate about smart phones what ever they are, you need to define a smart phone.
Looking on the internet I get:-
5 Rules for setting SMART goals
- S = specific. Your goal should include details of what you want to accomplish.
- M = measurable. You should be able to measure your progress and accurately determine whether you've accomplished your goal.
- A = attainable. Your goals should challenge you. ...
- R = realistic. ...
- T = timely.
How does that relate to a phone? The phone is really a dumb terminal, you may be able to use it to access smart devices and applications, but it is not smart in its self. It would be like calling a car door a car, you can use it to access the car, but in its self it is not a car.
One may point to the door and say look at my car, but we all know one is referring to the whole package. Since so many phones work using VOI to say no internet connection would in real terms mean no phone.
It is like saying children are getting fat so ban eating, one may be able to ban food stuff on which VAT is payable, i.e. luxury food stuff, biscuits etc. But cake would be OK, so kids can gorge themselves on Jaffa cakes.
But there is a clear safety aspect to children carrying phones, OK when I was a lad, we had red boxes on street corners which contained public phones, but to ban mobile phones first the static phones would need to return.
