Good or bad?

They have their uses obviously.

When could you so easily accept abuse off the missus while on a night out?
Checking train times, reading this board etc has never been so easy.

I find the phone impacts on parts of my life that I don't want it to and believe, as a whole, that they have had a big negative impact on the social aspect of life. You only have to go to your local restaurant or pub and watch a couple sat either side of their table heads down looking at their phones in silence.

The Gomorrah thread set me off thinking about it as I have had the same problems of picking up a phone almost involuntarily during a game or programme I want to watch and find it very frustrating at times and a habit that I want to stop or at least reduce a lot.

I'm sure this affects a lot on here and society in general with phones being so widespread.

Would we benefit if these phones were recalled en masse and replaced with some reissue Nokia brick from pre 2000?