"Luddites? Sorry, but simply having every piece of new tech only for the sake of it does not make you a nerd."

Smart phones are no longer new tech. They're at least in their second generation now (if you count smart phones such as blackberry and ancient WinCE phones as first gen, and the advent of the iPhone as second gen... debatable if enough has changed since then to say there's a third generation yet), and the baseline expectations for what features a smartphone offers are pretty well set.

There are good reasons not to get a smartphone, but to dismiss them as some kind of new fad is pretty weird.

No way of checking email, web, etc when on the go? I think a great many more nerds will no to that.