Yes…you guys are right. It’s the same reason I strap my child to a teather device while in public and wear a fanny pack. They are both functional and convenient.
Wait, so you’re a manager too?
I don’t think that holsters are in the same league as Bluetooth earpieces.
That said, I wouldn’t wear one for the simple reason that I move along too quickly and am prone to bashing into things occasionally. If I were to use a holster, my phone would be violently ripped from my hip by a doorknob or doorway within a week.
I got me one-a these babies. Only in leather. Twenty bucks at Wal-Mart. LOVE IT.
DogDad used to keep his phone in his pocket, till it fell out…somewhere. And, not being anywhere close to the contract end-date, had to pay full price for a new one. That’s $150 that I’d like back, but not gonna happen.
MY clothes usually don’t have pockets, and since I’m working a considerable distance from home, I’d like to be able to talk to DogDad when he calls, rather than letting it roll over to VM, so I wear my phone on my waistband with a belt-clip.
So we each got one of those belt clips like is in my link. Does it make me look like a “douche”? I don’t know, and don’t care, although if I wanted to be a douche I’d point out that the literal translation of “douche” is “shower” and I think the person calling cellphone-wearing people “douches” is all wet.
And at least I know where MY cellphone is.
I’m a field tech, not a managerial type. I use a blackberry holster because it’s the only convenient method of carrying my phone under the various circumstances I find myself at work. I don’t care in the least how it looks.
Get with it. 9 year old girls have cell phones & blackberries now. Cell phones are NO LONGER a symbol of importance. Peons and teenagers carry cell phones. Important executives have *people *to carry phones *for *them. Holsters are just a convenient place to securely carry a phone, for people who care more about function and reliability than about making the right stylisitic statement. If I have to find someone to put out a corporate fire, I’ll take the guy with the cell phone holster over the one with the $400 Versace silk tie.
And ladies, don’t you know there is a world-wide conspiracy to hamper your success in the workplace? It manifests itself in a devious attempt to prevent your clothes from helping you be efficient at work: high heels, no place for carrying your wallet, cell phone or pager, or a pen, clothes that prevent you from picking something up off the floor, and that keeps you freezing most of the time. My wife has opened my eyes to this evil.
To the people suggesting that a pants pocket is a wildly inappropriate place to put a cell phone: seriously? Allow me to address some common complaints I’ve read in this thread.
Your pockets are too tight? What kind of pants are you buying? I accept that most girl’s pants pockets would be prohibitively tight - most girl’s pants are prohibitively tight themselves (from a male perspective)! I have no problem fitting my hand into and out of my pants pockets to access my cell phone.
If it is in your pocket, it’s too bulky? Is your cell phone from 1995? Once I slip my phone into the pocket of any of my pants, I hardly notice it. It barely makes a protrusion through the fabric, so there’s no way it could bump into anything that my leg wouldn’t have already been about to bump into.
Is this a generational thing? I didn’t quite grow up with cell phones like today’s kids, but I got my first one when I was about 16. Maybe people who have lived for decades with no portable cellular device in their pocket are profoundly aware of its distinct presence once they put a cell phone in their pocket. I haven’t had decades to get used to empty pockets.
Is this not a contradiction. If cell phones are no longer a symbol of importance, why not just put your phone in your pocket? That way it’s unobtrusive - you’re not putting your phone out on display. Why do you go right to the guy with a holster to put out a corporate fire. 95% of the people around you probably also have a phone.
This is sort of it. Also, trying to access it sitting down.
For as long as I can remember I have only carried 5 things in my pockets.
Keys – Left front
Change and pocket knife – Right Front
Wallet – Right Rear
Checkbook – Left rear. Actually, I don’t carry a checkbook any more. That took a while to get used to.
The younger guys in the office carry their CP’s in their pockets. I didn’t get a CP until my mid 30’s. So I definitely did not grow up with them.
I use my Storm for music too. I can easily adjust volume and change songs while it’s in the holster.
For me, the holster is far and away the most convenient place.
I find my phone much much less obtrusive in a holster.
As we have said over and over again, we find it much more convienient.
As you will often find me in a sweat shirt and or a fleece vest of some sort (my office is cold). You would never even know I have the holster on. It’s not on display of any sort.
I don’t understand you. I’m not a managerial type either, but I keep my phone on my belt because it is often the only reasonable place to keep my phone. The only pocket in which I can comfortably store a cell phone is an interior jacket pocket, so if I’m not wearing a jacket, the phone goes in a holster on my belt. Why is this such a big deal? :dubious:
No, my pants aren’t tight at all, but it’s still very uncomfortable to have a cell phone in the pocket. It’s a dense flat object that will just rest against the leg for long periods of time, interfering with air flow and causing perspiration to accumulate. Not to mention just the feeling of a large heavy object in my pants pocket is kind of unpleasant; keeping my keys there is already bad enough! It’s not a matter of having an especially bulky cell phone, either: I find it uncomfortable to put anything larger than an iPod nano in a trouser pocket.
I’m a form follows function person.
I live in Houston, Texas. Jackets are out of the question for all but about 2 weeks out of the year. Many of my shirts don’t have pockets.
I work in a customer oriented field. IT. I’m on call 24/7, and MUST carry my work phone at all times, with very few exceptions.
I do NOT use my work phone for personal business, nor do I use my personal phone for business reasons. This is a fairly easy concept to grasp isn’t it?
I only carry 4 or 5 things total during the day, and they each have a specific place and function. Wallet and Keys go in the same pocket for easy access. Personal phone goes in the other free pocket. This leaves me 3 options(not including hi opal!).
1: Work phone in with keys and wallet. No, then my pocket would be completely useless.
2: Work phone goes with personal phone: No, then the two would rub together constantly.
3: Work phone goes on the hip. We have a winner!!
I like large pockets. I do not wear small pocketed pants. I do not like my phones to make audible noises when at work. This means that it must be on vibrate only during these hours (let me know if I need to slow this down for those of you who just don’t understand).
If my work phone is in my pocket, I may or may not notice it going off as the pocket may or may not be touching me at the time. In the belt, it vibrates nicely against my hip and I do not miss any calls.
I am not a manager, nor do I aspire to EVER be a manager.
I work. I support my customers. I am good at it.
If the fact that I do what I need to do to do what I do makes you think that I’m a douche, I think you need to look in the mirror, because you must not know what a douche looks like.
I am more concerned about keeping my customers happy than what some twit may think that I look like when I do my job.
I still sort of hate the fact that I carry a cell phone at all. It’s usually “inadvertently” left at home, or in my car, or some other inconvenient place. It’s usually also found with the ringer off, the entire phone off, or with a completely discharged battery.
Every week or so, I’ll deign to handle the goddamned thing long enough to determine what texts, voicemails, or calls I missed.
If circumstances dictate that I absolutely must carry it on my person, it will be utterly out of sight, in my trousers pocket.
I wear my cell phone on my belt.
I wear jeans. I install satellite dishes and wireless internet services for a living. I need to wear pants that are tough enough for the wear and tear involved. Jeans typically don’t have pockets that are amenable to carrying a phone. I keep my keys in my front left pocket, a pocket knife in my front right pocket, and my wallet in my back right pocket. It can’t go in a front pocket, because it would get scratched up, and if it was in a back pocket, it would get crushed. If I’m crawling around under a house or patio, and the phone rings, I need to be able to answer it. If it was in my pocket, can you imagine the contortions involved with pulling it out of a pocket of a pair of jeans?
When you’re in a labour-related field like mine, your legs bump into alot of things; ladder rungs, deck railings, to mention only two. I lean on my upper thighs for support regularly. My phone would get trashed if it was in my pants pocket.
As far as putting it in a jacket pocket, that’s where various tools, cable ends, screws, etc get put. Also, stuff falls out of my jacket pockets on a regular basis.
Shirt pocket? I wear T-shirts, which have none. If I did wear a casual dress shirt with a breast pocket, and had the phone in there, it would fall out the first time I lean over to screw a cable into the dish as I’m standing on the roof. (you see where this is headed, don’t you?)
A belt holster is the only logical way to carry it, for me.
I’m 35. I stopped caring about whether or not others think I’m cool about 15 years ago or so.
For completeness’ sake, this is what kind of phone I have, so it’s not prohibitively large, but trying to pull it out of my jeans pocket would be kind of like the monkey trying to pull a fisted banana through the fence. 
S^G
Batman has stuff on his belt, lots of stuff, probably including some sort of phone/data device. He’s prepared, and works alone, so really, who is HE managing? When he’s Bruce Wayne, he has nothing on his belt. He has Alfred for that sort of thing.
On my belt right now, I have my work phone (BlackBerry), and my Leatherman. My personal phone (small) holster broke, so I don’t have that one on at the moment, but will as soon as I’ve replaced it.
My personal phone is in a pocket in my jacket, which means it’s not on me if I head up to the Cafe for coffee, or lunch. I can’t receive a call from friends/family if I don’t have my jacket with me at the moment.
Holsters make sense. Putting things on the belt makes sense (reference Batman’s preparedness)
Nope. Still not cool. The Leatherman on the belt also subtracts from the coolness as well. Batman notwithstanding.
Just wondering – why was the link in the OP removed, and why was vdvagabond banned?
I don’t know. I don’t really care - I’ve tried carrying it in my pocket and it was uncomfortable and inconvenient. I’m not lying or speaking about hypotheticals.
QFT.
I refuse to wear any shoes/suit to work that are incompatible with cotton socks and sitting comfortably. This has not hampered my success.
Although I think it has lead to some intense curiousity about my sexuality. . .
Right. My immediate prior cell phone was a small one, but I immediately wrapped it in a cover with a slender, non-protruding slide clip, like those eyeglass cases used to have (not the huge honkin’ pivot clips now popular). It would either go on the belt or it would go in a front pocket with the clip over the pocket opening so that it would not fall to the bottom of the pocket. To me the discomfort lay in having it loose in the pocket.
I’m highly likely to have to bite the bullet and get a smartphone soon but if the most comfortable way to carry it is holstered, so be it. I’ll put it in my coat pocket like a cigarette case IF I’m wearing my coat. Otherwise I’ll sling it for the quickdraw like I did my TI calculator almost 40 years ago – it will not hurt my pride at all, it’ll just evoke an Original Nerdsta vibe 