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I was curious to know if you currently own and/or use a cell phone.

What are your thoughts on cell phones?

I do own one, Ash: in fact I've got two of the things, one for work and one for personal use that is mine. They are a necessary evil in my life and I don't really like them, but yes, I do use them.

The thing that sometimes makes me a little  :buggedout: is that all my clients have my personal number and I get calls all the time, even when I'm on leave.

I do have one.  Sadly, like a lot of us, it's become a necessity of our lives.  I use a Motorola Q which runs Windows Mobile 5 so I'm never away from my email, phone calls, and texts.  That can be a good thing and and bad thing.  I have to keep the damn thing on me most of the time as I'm on call 95% of my time off.

Anyway, here is the phone: 

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It's a good phone....don't care for Alltel though.  I'll be looking for a new provider once my contract ends.

No need. I am not that important: nobody needs to contact me on an *immediate* basis.

There are times when I could wish hubby had one: usually during snowstorms when he is travelling home from work and is late.  Just for peace of mind in emergencies.  Maybe 4-5 times a year.

Don't have one, never want one.  The answering machine and caller ID were good inventions because they allow you to get rid of unwanted calls.  The cell phone seems to do just the opposite, letting anyone call you up no matter where you are and bother you.  

Yes, I have one. The first one we got (8 years ago) was because I could get it through work for a discount, and we could get calls when someone was on the dial up internet at the house.

The kids went to college so we got them phones and we still had ours.  When my son got out of school, he got his own and I inherited his.

I've had one at work, but I turned it in. It was a pocket PC model and had Windows on it and I could get email and surf the web with it.  But, alas I hate gadgets and I haven't figured out why people need to get email 24 hours a day (I think it's an addiction and makes people feel important), so I turned it in and told the boss if it's an emergency call me on my personal phone.  Always felt stupid wearing two of them anyway.  

Anyway I have one, but no one ever calls me on it but my wife and daughter. It is handy to have one for emergencies.

I quite like the cell phone I have.  Only problem I have to a degree is the amount of minutes I have.  They charge $29.99 per month, plus tax, for 300 minutes.  In all around $35.00.  Not too bad, but I only have free weekends, no free nights.  If I use all 300 minutes before the end of the month (rare, as long conversations I wait for the weekend), it's about 50 cents per minute. 

I would get the next plan, 600 minutes for like, $39.99, but I don't talk that often on the phone to need all 600, plus they offer free nights and weekends, so there's really no need for 600 at that point.

I quite like texting, but had to stop when I racked up about an additional ten bucks just in texting.  Doesn't seem like a lot, but when it's 15 cents per text, both in and out, that's a lot of texting.

I have T-Mobile at the moment.

I had one up until recently when it got run over in a Denny's parking lot. I actually relieved that i dont have one anymore, because I would ALWAYS carry it with me, like it was an extension of my body. Not good. Now the only problem is, none of my friends call my house phone and my 2 bands cant get a hold of me for practice other than using Myspace, which i also HATE.

I have one due to the fact there are hardly any pay phones around.  I generally don't use it unless I really need it.  My average phone call lasts 30 seconds.  It repulses me when I come across someone in a store chatting away out loud about nothing.  It repulses me even more when they ignore the cashier checking out.  Then theres texting which makes absolutely no sense to me. 

In other words, I hate cell phones but I have one. 

I have a cell phone, have had one for about 5 or 6 years.  After my car broke down on the side of the road in a snowstorm, I decided I should get one.  I use mine very sparingly because I hate talking on the phone, and if someone calls that I don't want to talk to, I don't answer it.  We have a house phone that we don't use that my wife just HAD to have.  No one calls us on that except solicitors, so we don't usually answer that one.

I have one, but rarely carry it with me.  My wife needs one for work and she got ours together on one of those 'plans.'

I used to be so opposed to them - I hated the things.  My mind was changed a few years back when my wife broke down in MY TRUCK a little after midnight one night.  She was in a not-super-great area of Charlotte, NC, and had to walk 2 miles to get to a phone to call me.  It was a little unnerving.

She's had a cell phone ever since.

The sad thing is that now, with cell phones so prolific, public phones are very few and far between.  They used to have them at just about every gas station and grocery store and the like.  Not anymore. 

So, for those that choose to NOT have cell phones (or if your battery is dead or cannot get a signal or whatever), it is actually LESS safe than before cell phones became so popular.

I received one as a going-away present for college.  And it's just a phone -- no camera, no text messaging, no games, no Internet.  A telephone. 

I use it as infrequently as possible.  The main thing I use it for is to call the gf and say, "Hey, wanna get dinner? OK, I'll be right over." And the phone goes back in to my pocket. 

Wish I didn't. I hate the things. I've got a cheap Sony Ericsson.  :tongueout:

Yes I do, my mom worries a lot about me and my family so almost everyone has gotten one as a birthday gift.  However, I'm not one of those kids who has had a cell phone scine they were twelve, I got it last year and I'm in love with it.

Yes I've actually got one. I just find them very useful but I can't stand people who seem to spend their entire lives with them glued to their lugholes! However, I find that people who complain the most about them invariably wind up getting themselves the biggest and fanciest models they can find!

After years of resistance and little interest, I finally got one last spring for the main reason already mentioned: in case of emergencies while on my daily commute over some very isolated rural roads.

My cell phone of choice - a LG TracFone I got a the Dollar General Store for 35 bucks. I have to add $10.00 worth of minutes every three months or so. No frills, and it looks like one of those Star Trek communicators, so I'm good.

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im getting one soon but its not like EVERY FREAKING TEENAGER IN THE WORLD HAS ONE
BUT ME the only reason i want one is i can talk to my friends that for some reason refuse to talk to me on the phone so  they want me to text them (whats the f****** point of texting anyways?)

the master,

I was one who could not figure out the point of texting.  I came into it late, but I must say that texting is a bit addictive.  Most of the time now, when someone wants to get in touch with me, they text me rather than actually giving me a call.  It's a simple way to communicate.  I'm one that doesn't really talk all that much but is more than happy to text someone.  I now love the texting feature with phones and don't know what I would do without it.

I'm just simply amazed at the amount of crap some phones have.  The I-Phone is a prime example.  I consider it the swiss army knives of cell phones.  Just like the knife, some of the things you need to get by in every day life.  Most of it though is kind of excessive.  If you loose it, which is more than possible seeing its so small, you're out a lot of stuff in one package.  I have the cheapest phone money can buy and I'm glad. 

What's a cell phone?  :bouncegiggle:

We call them 'mobiles' here, short for mobile phone.

I don't have a landline, so mobile is the way to go for me.  Don't leave home without it.  :thumbup:

Sending messages is handy for getting onto people when you or them are at work, or to just say 'I'm bored, want to do something later.'  Also mass messaging for party info etc. 

It's funny, they're probably really bad for us with radio-waves etc, but it really is a fantastic invention. 

As for the 'now people can call you at anytime' thing as a negative, most phone's have the ability to see who's calling, unless it's a private number, so often I just don't pick up if it's a number I don't know and I'm not expecting a call from anyone not in my phone.

That way they can either leave a message on the machine or send me an SMS if they're really after me.

My wife and I actually have discovered texting, and actually do it more often than calling each other. Two reasons: (a) Good chance the other person is in a meeting, and they can get your text message at a time when they couldn't accept a call, (b) text can get through when the signal is too poor to use voice.

But unlike most people, I tend to text the way I write e-mail, in whole sentences with whole words. I'm one of those grumpy grammarians who detests reading stuff like "r u rdy 4..."

I didn't have a cell phone at all until I bought my 1st house about 3 years and 9 months ago.

All of my family members have Verizon cell phone coverage so I figured I would just get Verizon as well since I could call my mom as much as I want to since she lives 6 1/2 hours from me and my sisters.

I don't have a land line as there's no need for one for me.

I didn't really want one, but when I figured up our bills, it was roughly the same cost to pay for a land line + internet service as it was to get cell phones & broadband cable internet. So, we did away with our land lines and now are cell only. I don't like to talk on the phone, but it does come in handy as my business phone; it seems more professional to me for someone to call me direct than to have them call my house & talk to my daughter (my business isn't big enough to warrant another line just for customer calls). The down side of that is that I can't just ignore a call because it might be a customer wanting to set up an appointment  :bluesad: (good for me that it's an appointment; bad for me that I can't ignore the call). As for texting, I do it as little as possible, and then always in complete sentences, because, like schmendrick, I am a grammarian who dislikes the txtng crp.

I have one but don't use it to much. Its also simple and cheap with no fluff. I can't understand the fancy phones like IPhone or a blackberry for two reason: When they fall once their all pretty much done for. Anything that seems to get fancy or has a big screen you drop it once its broke. I used to have a old motorola and people were like I wish I had that those things never break.

Second reason and Darksider pointed it out, Some people have their whole lives in those things. Music, important dates, etc. and if they lose their screwed and can't function. When I had to replace my old phone it wasn't a huge deal. I lost some numbers but I had the same number and when people called I was ok. I also found out that a company like T-Mobile, if someone steals your phone or finds and keeps and say has T-Mobile too(Which alot of people have over here in NYC) all they do is replace their sim card with the new stolen phone it works no question asked. Upgrade for free  :tongueout: :wink:

My wife and I both have basic cell phones, got them for emergencies because public phones are so hard to find anymore.
I generally call Poogie on the way home from work to let her know I'm coming home and haven't had a heart attack and died, mainly I call to say hi and see if we need any thing from the store, the phone has a speaker and hands free operation so it's safe and this does cut down on trips to the store for odds and ends, other than this I don't use the phone for much at all. Since my mother in law passed away my wife doesn't use hers at all. We just got a catalogue in the mail from Verizon, we're entitled to a free upgrade to a fancy communication device that has every whistle and bell that modern electronics can provide, because it's free my wife is probably going to get these things. I sometimes wonder how we all survived so long without these essential electronic gizmo's.

thanks for the info karma
now I'm a little more exited for getting on next week