The author addresses that:
> If this was the first ‘smart’phone I ever used, I’d wonder what the hell the fuss was all about, and return to my trusty Nokia 3310 in confusion.
> If this was the first ‘smart’phone I ever used, I’d wonder what the hell the fuss was all about, and return to my trusty Nokia 3310 in confusion.
It is addressing it, although perhaps with a particular bias. Don't try to twist words like that. And unlike people who have never had smartphones, he obviously has the experience of both having a dumb phone and a smart phone, so he knows how it is to not have things like a browser on a phone, though you might argue that that was probably in a time where you didn't gain a lot from having convenient access to the Web... but then you're starting to really draw in many assumptions about the author just because you refuse to concede any point when it comes to what you wrote. ;)