Are You A Cell Phone Nut Case?

[divemaster]

I don’t have a cell phone and I don’t want a cell phone. but if I did:

@gotpasswords

I don’t want a camera, I don’t want a keyboard, I don’t want fax, joysticks or 5.1 channel surround sound. I just want something to make and receive calls on.

THIS.

I don’t want a “3G” or a Blue tooth or “apps.” I wouldn’t want it making funny noises. Just a phone.

Even though I don’t have a cell phone, my wife does and on occassion I use it. When I travel for work I sometimes take a loaner phone with me. I’ve never used a cell phone that comes anywhere near the sound quality of a land line and I hate using them. On a cell phone, the above paragrpah would sound like:

Even th… I dn’t have a cl phe, my wife (skkzzz) on occassion use it. Whn I trl for I otimes take a loaner (zzzzzt) ne wit me. (You get the picture).

So all the bells and whistles mean nothing if I’m having to strain to make out a normal conversation.

[enipla]

@divemaster

So all the bells and whistles mean nothing if I’m having to strain to make out a normal conversation.

I’m on my third cell phone. Having a decent connection seems to be totaly hit or miss, and so far for me, the phones don’t seem to have anything to do with it. I donno. It may be me, or people are just getting used to the two way radio sound of cell phones.

I rarely talk on a cell phone, and only use it for necessary conversations/sharing information. In this day and age, you sort of have to have one.

So, as long as I’m going to have it, I might as well have all the bells and whistles. I get very much use out of them. And hey, if I need to make a call, I can do that too.

Really, as a programmer, I need to be familiar with the tech. Or at least know the buzzwords. That’s one of the reasons I bought a Storm. Found out I really, really like it. Heck, I can use it as a modum for my laptop.

Nothing wrong at all with not wanting or needing one. I find that as people latch on to new stuff, suddenly they are lost with out it. When only a few months ago, they had never heard of it. Of course with pay phones going the way of the Dodo, cell phones are becoming more and more needed.

[lolagranola]

@phreesh

This seems like a good thread to ask this:

For those who do a LOT of websurfing on the phones, how much does it cost a month?

I’m interested in getting an iPhone, but I suspect that the data plans would set me back about $1200 or more a year and I can’t justify that.

FYI I live in Canada.

My data plan is $30 a month with Rogers, and it’s more data than I can ever use. I use my iPhone a lot, and haven’t even hit the half way mark on allotted data.

What brings the cost up is that’s it’s $30 a month for data PLUS whatever your voice plan is.