"Any adult who has doomscrolled at 3 a.m. knows how addictive smartphones can be. The remedy to phone-induced depression, obesity, and poor sleep at any age is as simple and as challenging as teaching — and practicing — self-control."

"I do not accept at all that any child under the age of 14 holds or uses a mobile phone for any reason whatsoever. It is haram (forbidden) for them to do so. I do not accept it at all, ever, ever. Whoever wants to destroy his or her child give them a cell phone. This is such a bad thing that absolutely destroys a child's behaviour because the child by mistake can come across very bad clips on the phone which can shock the child and ruin his or her behaviour, and it is difficult to fix the matter in this age. These scenes will be engraved in their memories forever."

"Your phone is buzzing, beeping, glowing—always screaming for attention. Smartphones are tools, but they’re also slot machines in your pocket."

"For billions of people, the smartphone is not just a device; it is their primary connection to education, finance, health, and opportunity."

"The smartphone is the signature technology of our age — powerful, portable, and persuasive enough to reshape human habits on a global scale."

"We now carry devices in our pockets with more computing power than the machines that once sent humans to the Moon."

"A smartphone is a tool powerful enough to enrich your mind or erase your attention — the difference is how you use it."

"While the Nokia N97 is packed with features and offers the freedom of an unlocked phone, its clunky touch interface, sky-high price tag, and outdated operating system make it hard to recommend when there are better touch-screen smartphones on the market."

"The N97 and many other smartphones uses resistive screens, which require you to push a liiiittle bit harder. It’s trivial and fairly easy to adjust to, but it feels like hot garbage. The stylus is dead, Nokia."

"If this really is the best Nokia can do, the giant is doomed to die a slow death, propped up for a while by the cheap handsets that it sells by the tens of millions."

"There are a number of elements we didn’t get into here; the Ovi store, the front-facing camera, the FM transmitter… Thing is, they’re fantastic icing on the cake, but the cake is made of crap. I’m sorry, Nokia – I really, really wanted to love the N97."

"The Xperia X1 is a pretty good smart phone overall, but not quite the iPhone killer we'd been hoping for."

"Sony Ericsson’s Cybershot line has traditionally been at the forefront among camera phones, but the 3,2 megapixel camera and software in the X1 are of standard Windows Mobile quality, which translates to “pretty crummy”."

"On the whole, the Xperia X1 is an impressive phone, and together with the HTC Touch Pro it’s probably the best Windows Mobile-based smartphone so far. The cons here are its annoying slowness and the fact that Sony Ericsson in some cases have taken the easy route with the existing Windows features instead of implementing their own."

"It really is a slick device with a nice OS, but it is also sad that so few people will ever be able to experience it."

"For the last few weeks I've had the chance to review the N9, which I believe is Nokia's best effort with a smartphone to date."

"It’s an incredibly sexy device, this N9."

"Love at first sight - this is possibly the most beautiful phone ever made."

"Beautiful. Simple. Brilliant. Out of place and hardly on time. Timeless. The Nokia N9 is a story with no happy ending but you want to enjoy every word. Sad story. Post-coital kind of sad. And that’s not because the Nokia N9 let us down. On the contrary, we found it to be a revelation: gorgeous design and the divine simplicity of the all-screen experience."

"The Nokia N9 is, without doubt, one of the most fascinating phones of the last few years."

"Anyone privy to the release of the iPhone is going to hold on to their current device as long as they possibly can, all but Scotch taping their devices together so that they can crawl over the finish line and into the loving arms of a shiny new iPhone. (Oh, you know the box is gonna be sexy.)"

"We consider that Apple copied the Prada phone after the design was unveiled when it was presented in the iF Design Award and won the prize in September 2006. We take that to mean Apple stole our idea."

"If there is something good in the world then we copy with pride."

"Yeah, you'll be the coolest person in the room when you pull one out and show it around, but that gets old fast when three other people have them and one person somehow has one that glows in the dark."

"I think there's almost a belligerence - people are frustrated with their manufactured environment. We tend to assume the problem is with us, and not with the products we're trying to use. In other words, when our tools are broken, we feel broken. And when somebody fixes one, we feel a tiny bit more whole.""

"Every once in a while a revolutionary product comes along that changes everything. It's very fortunate if you can work on just one of these in your career. … Apple's been very fortunate in that it's introduced a few of these."