answer:They’re a convient place to store all of your information at once, plus the technology for smartphones is developing faster than possibly any other piece of technology out there. The amount of things you can do with these phones (whether it’s a Blackberry, iPhone, Android, whatever) rivals what you could do with laptops just a few years ago, and that’s pretty exciting. Plus neither Apple or Microsoft has released or plans to release a new update to OSX or Windows in the next year or so, so nobody’s really talking about that. It’s just the “in” piece of technology right now.