Much more of late I do, along with the new google home system it is a godsend to people who can't get around very well AND I can turn my son's music down or check if any lights have been left on, awesome!
For one thing such an instrument is not smart except in the true meaning of the word, however sophisticated its electronics and programming.
I had one, an LG2017, but it "out-smarted" me by it being so difficult and clumsy to use, it defeated not only me but also its own, primary purpose. I missed calls because despite left messages or call notifications, it had no clear, definite way to retrieve these or make return calls, and came without instructions. I paid off the remaining 18 months of the 2-year contract that was basically a waste of money, and sold it.
The contract was about £120 a year. As I make most of my 'phone calls by land-line on a broadband service with free evening and weekend calls, my portable telephone on PAYG costs me perhaps £40 a year. This 'phone, a DORO, is 3g-rated and theoretically can be connected to the Internet, though not practically as the display area is only 60mm high X 45mm wide.
The LG was, well, "smart-'phone" sized, angular, clumsy and quite heavy - overcoat-pocket sized. The DORO, when closed, is trouser-pocket sized at only 105 X 55 X 18mm maximum, of rounded form; and lightweight. (The display area of the PC monitor on which I typed this, measures 400mm wide X 255mm high.)
There is more to having a portable telephone than what an individual make and model, or service-provider, can or cannot do. You need ignore the advertising waffle, ignore fashion especially that pushing you to throw it away and buy new annually; and instead consider its real value to you by purpose as well as cost, and the ease and convenience of its applications you genuinely need. X
Randy D 