Well I don’t spend my time wandering around looking down but I will say that there have been times when it has never been out of my reach or switched off...always when there has been serious illness in the family...and at those times, yes I would have been lost without it. Like hc, I use mine for reminders, alarms, shopping lists, GPS, as a camera, for the weather, for banking, for quickly sharing things with my distant family and on and on. I like to visit gardens that open under the the NGS scheme and the phone is handy for taking a photo of the plant with label.