Mobile Phones Aren't Your Friend or a Gateway to Truly Social Life
PEOPLE'S 'relationship' with their computing devices often boils down to an unhealthy dependence rather than relationship with some provider (carrier and/or software company) which controls those devices remotely. Relationships between actual people are viewed as interactions to be "monetised" by engagement and spying. In some countries, intensive censorship is also part of the "exchange". Coercion - however subtle (soft power) - and other means of exercising control over people is the name of this "game".
Many people erroneously conflate Social Control Media with a meaningful social life and they score the wrong thing due to gamification (addiction boosted by lust or inferiority complex).
People who value software freedom and mental health can attest to the benefits of a rejection of mobile phones (in the US, "cellphones") and a variety of other supposedly "modern" things. If you want something modern and small, consider a Raspberry Pi 5.
Newer should not always seem more seductive, as novelty is by default questionable and debatable. Newer is not always better. But sometimes it is. Only sometimes. █