why do people make a big hype of phones?

[arceusmen]

in my school, the majority of people make a big deal of what phone people have. i remember back then, it was all about video game console like xbox and ps2. now its all about phones. but with the phones is severely worst. people to me seem addicted to their phones. i dont have a high end phone. i have a blackberry 9780 and all i need it for is the spectacular email client it has. everybody wanting iphones, big size android phones, etc etc. i see no real use of phones except communication, not social networking. phone calls yes. text messages to a limit. that is all. i checked on my tmobile bill to see how many minutes i used, 6 minutes..... texts sent, 9. i checked my little sister's. over 5500 texts. and she is 11 years old. why are companies trying to make a smartphone a computer? they obviously cant. and gaming on one of those devices is hilarious compared to my pc. i want to know why are people addicted to phones and i am not. and also facebook. what is up with that? why do people want to get severely into people's life?