He could make good use of the phone to learn about new ideas and earn through it, I see people use their phone to create good contents on different social medias get likes and earn with their phone, instead of watching other people they now get watched by people and get paid for it, it's not bad to gather nformations from the media with your phone, however it depends on the right and quality information. You know, information they say is power but the right information could set a standard of success. Well he could still smash it on the wall if he thinks it ain't useful, hahahaha.