How can the title say with a "smartphone" when there is rarely any smartphone mentioned in the novel? I mean after chapter 100 i just remember that the smartphone rarely mentioned, it is just mention he used the smartphone app for intel gathering from maps, sound and video recording and takes picture and nothing else. Maybe the maps app can be used in the battlefield but that just it nothing else and the smartphone is rarely used on casual stuff. The main point is that he likes to use teleportation, it should be changed to "In different World with Teleportation". I like the novel but it lacks the main point of using the smartphone.
I have the novel on my reading list but still haven't read it and honestly, I prefer it in the way that you explain rather than something like iboy
It's probably something like how it was originally going to be the focus of the novel, but then the author got sucked into other ideas and it was too late to change the novel's title.
Well, he is in another world and he has his smartphone. I guess that sums up the reasons for its title.
In different world with Teleportation is a different novel, being translated by Ice Cream Cake right now. The Smartphone in this one is used for voice recording, magic targeting, maps, projecting information, and allowing internet access for the harem members' hobbies.
well there are a lot of "small but important" details that makes use of the smartphone to cover possible plot holes without it...
It really is a smartphone in the end, you can't expect much from it to begin with. Though to be honest, having a smartphone that gives you a direct line to God, an ability to distinguish friend or foe, access to all information on the internet, and being able to help you paralyze or slip up entire armies is already a big help. By this point, I don't think I would ask for anything more since it is already a cheat item.
It's pretty common in the "I got sent to another world but XYZ" genre to include the one defining feature that makes it different from every other story in the title. For Smartphone that was, you guessed it, the smartphone. As for the slow but steady fade in smartphone screentime... does he really need it after the first few chapters? I mean, he was gifted amazing physical prowess and combat abilities, can use all elements of magic, and can even use the unique overpowered kind that nobody else can use just by reading the name and description of it. How useful is the ability to check the internet and use a GPS compared to all that? The smartphone kinda lost its usefulness the moment he started learning magic.
I think you're exaggerating. The MC used the smartphone to basically revolutionize the whole entertainment system of that world. List of things the MC used his smartphone to bring to the isekai: Bicycles Mahjong Table Tennis Billiard Pinball Air Hockey Baseball Baseball got so popular that the countries of their western alliance even built stadiums and were organizing international matches. lol Moreover, that smartphone is completely broken in combat.