On Doctor Who, Matt Smith has every high-end gadget imaginable. In real life, it turns out, he’s a little more old-fashioned.
Matt Smith is currently in St. Petersburg, Russia. He’s acting as the host for the finals of the Imagine Cup, a technology competition for students sponsored by Microsoft that takes place during the course of this week.
In an interview with The Next Web, Smith reveals that he’s not nearly as skilled with technology as the students in the competition, but he’s not a technophobe. As a matter of fact, Smith owns an iPad, a Surface RT tablet, a Macbook Air, a PC, and a Lumia 920 smart phone.
When Smith, who uses both PC and MAC platforms, was asked which he preferred, he was initially cagy. In the end, he fessed up preferring the MAC products due to their ergonomic design and their light weight.
With all this technology, and the fact that Arthur Darvill and Karen Gillen are both on Twitter, you’d think that social media addiction would rub off on Smith. He’s decidedly against it for himself, but has no problem with others using it. When pressed why, he responded:
Because I spend enough time looking down at my phone, and I believe that with the advent of technology we communicate less as people sometimes. I think it’s important to keep your head up, and look out at the world. I don’t know really, possibly because of my job, Twitter and Facebook aren’t the right environment for me at the moment.
And it’s just not my thing. I don’t really like it, I just don’t see the point. Who cares what I am doing? Who cares!
Another oddity is that for someone with two tablets, Smith likes getting his news the old-fashioned way via a newspaper. He feels that he reads more thoroughly that way and has a better grasp on what is going on in the world.