I have to add one more voice to the chorus asking: if I’m not supposed to keep my cell phone in a holster, where exactly am I supposed to stick it? :dubious:
Pants pockets are right out on the grounds of being a damnably uncomfortable place to keep a cell phone; shirt pockets are out because putting anything heavier than a pen in a shirt pocket drags down the whole shirt. (Also, many shirts do not have pockets. Probably only a little more than half of my dress shirts do.) If I’m wearing a jacket with an interior pocket, that’s a much better place to put my phone, but as it happens I do not wear a jacket all of the time.
The belt, then, becomes a natural attachment point for technological gadgets and other objects too large to be carried in a pocket. It’s a simple matter of utility, and with no other options, there’s just no room for pretension. Besides: if we’re talking about important managerial equipment, the cell phone holster on my left hip nicely balances out the holster for my .45 on my right.
As a female, over half my work slacks have no pockets. I need to carry my phone with me because I’ve given the number to clients and I’m hard to catch at my desk. If the odd pair of slacks does have a pocket my phone goes there, but if not I have a belt holster for it, though I often flip it around so the phone part is inside my waistband, to avoid unsightly clothing lumpiness.
I’m not sure how my use of a carrying device makes me pretentious rather than simply practical.
With what Papa Tiger has to pay for dress slacks and jackets (or suits) for work, the last thing he wants to do is ruin the pockets with huge bulky things like his BlackBerry. So where else is he supposed to put it except to clip it to his belt, when he needs to be available constantly at work and is only at his desk about 25% of the time?
Sometimes it’s just a matter of being practical. And personally, I wouldn’t like to tell the Army general he works for that she looks like a douche for having a cell phone on her belt. She is a trained killer, after all.
I am a female. Not all of my suits HAVE pockets. I don’t want to have to carry my purse around just so that my phone/calendar are accesible. The holster is the easiest answer.
The real doosh is anyone who thinks this looks important or cool.
Now, the ear buds with the blue LCDs on them, THAT’s who you follow if you want to get to the DooshFest!
Actually, I have to wonder which looks dorkier: somebody wearing a cellphone in a holster on their belt, or someone who has put theirs in a pocket and has to pat themselves down (since they can’t remember which pocket holds the phone) while their ringtone loudly plays on and on and on…
You must have a very heavy phone. Myself, my phone holster on the right balances out the multitool holster on the left, but a multitool is a lot lighter than a .45.
My right front pants pocket is an ideal place for me to keep my phone.
There’s a bit of cause-and-effect here: My phone is a Palm Centro, which is one of the smaller smartphones out there. This small size is one of the reasons I chose it over competing devices, because I wanted a phone that I could easily keep in my pocket.
Cell phones in a holster look lame to me. Put the damned thing in your pocket. I’ve got the little leather sleeve for my BlackBerry that came with it. The phone goes in the sleeve, which goes in my pocket.
When the Blackberry became the visible “look at me” product a few years back I bought a Fisher Price Doodle Pro, fashioned a clip out of paper clips and started wearing it on my belt at work. I would make phone noises in mid conversation and snatch my “Blackberry” off my belt, write a terse message such as “Just do it!” and rejoin the conversation. For confidential stuff I would stick the stylus in my ear and mutter into it.
The popularity of my schtick led to most of the showoffs using pockets for carrying their Blackberry. My F-P device is still used in our unit for leaving notes on each others desks
I keep my Blackberry Pearl in my right front pants pocket. It has plenty of room there, sharing space only with the occasional coin or two, and I’ve installed a little program that locks the keyboard after a few seconds of inactivity, so I don’t need a holster for that purpose either. I have it sheathed in a protective cover with appropriate cutouts for ports and such, so wear isn’t an issue either. I’ll likely be upgrading to a Curve 8900 this summer, but it’s not much bigger, so I don’t anticipate having to alter my arrangement much, if at all.
I never gave much thought to where I carry my phone, sometimes in a pocket and sometimes on my belt. But I must say it strikes me as a quick litmus test - If you encounter someone who does care where you carry it, it saves you time in that you can start disregarding them now instead of learning to later.
I keep my Treo on my belt in one of these - I’ve never thought of it as anything other than a convenient solution to carrying it.
Shirt pocket: liable to slip out and fall (maybe even into the toilet or sink when bending over)
Trouser pocket: already in use for things such as coins, keys - which would scratch the screen. Also, the phone is liable to dig into my groin when I sit down.
Jacket pocket: phone isn’t with me any more when I take off the jacket
Lanyard: Not with this phone - it will swing and smash my brains out if I have to run for the train.
Hand-carried: At some point I will need both hands, and will put the phone down. That will be the last time I see it.
Holster: Not perfect - spoils the drape of some jackets and is a bit vulnerable to catching on things, but better than any of the above, for me. Nobody has ever commented on it as if it was a status thing.
I know that some of you guys are not going to believe this, but there is an age where you stop caring about how other people carry their phones and you stop caring if other people care where you carry your phone.
Huzzah! I say. I carry my cell phone in a holster for all of the convenience reasons mentioned upthread, and screw you snarkly little farts who think it’s somehow “uncool.” I quit worrying about cool when I grew up.
If there was a way to strap my laptop computer to my hip, I’d do it. I loves me some interactive technology!
Yes. I have formulated a thesis. Basically, if you worry about whether you’re cool, you’re not. And if you constantly think about whether someone else is cool, you’re not cool. Now, not worrying about being cool does not automatically make you cool, it just increases your chances of being so.
If someone, or a group of someones, has found a way to make one of life’s little problems somewhat easier to deal with, then mocking the way that solution looks is VERY uncool.
