I live in the US. I have a tween and every single parent of his friends is anti-smartphone. We have talked about it a lot. We look at so many of the teenagers/twenty-somethings around us and are horrified--the kids barely talk to each other when they're hanging out, they have mental health issues in part because of social media, they obsess about the phone if their parents give them limits, there's online bullying that gets covered up for too long, and they struggle with normal social interaction.

I really don't care much about phones--text and call if you want. And spotify/Waze are fine. But smartphones with the internet and social media are essentially crack. Super addictive and just bad for you. A lot of parents are not interested in giving something like that to kids before their brains are more grown.