Reply To: Davening from phone in shul

I find davening from a phone to be tacky, but believe firmly that laptops and tablets can be used in the beit midrash; with Koren and Artscroll apps, online shiurim, Bar Ilan, etc, it saves a lot of time. Ii heard from R’ Mordechai Willig that spending time looking up mekoros, locating sefarim on a shelf, etc., is considered bitul torah, and you get no schar for it, which would actually make using Bar Ilan a mitzvah.