I use a phone holster at my hip, because what other people think is utterly irrelevant.
We live in a world where “other people” think the Earth is flat and that vaccines magnetize your body. Giving any fucks about what other people think is a vote for insanity.
Their disdain is my badge of honor.
But still not as dorky as carrying a cell phone in a shoulder holster, as does Gareth on the British version of The Office.
It may be dorky, but is it as dorky as my Father in Law who has a holster clipped to his suspenders? He’s 75, so he can do what he wants IMHO, and I don’t know if it’s any dorky-er than the suspenders in the first place…
I tried it once, back when I had my personal phone in my pocket and needed to carry a BlackBerry for work. I tried using the handy dandy holster they provided.
It worked for a day or two, then I hip-checked a handrail on my way down the stairwell and the belt clip broke apart, phone went clattering, lots of commotion was raised, and people came running to assist saying “Are you ok?” much to my embarrassment. The phone survived without a scratch, so there’s that.
Since I am not getting any less clumsy, cell phone holsters are out, even if they weren’t dorky.
The guy with the calculator had it in a shoulder holster. Dorks of previous generations carried slide rules in holsters. Long in the past there was a Sumerian dork who carried a clay tablet in a holster.
Maybe that’s why they grew those long beards, to hide the dorky holster.
Count me as another dork. At 71 YO, I don’t care much. I’m not applying for a job or trying to pick up women.
Front pants pocket? Nope. I carry my wallet up front because sitting on it in the car (or anywhere) gives me back pains. The other front pocket holds my car keys and a penknife.
Frankly, I marvel at how people manage to carry cell phones in pockets at all. They’re slick enough (without some special cover) to fall out at anytime.
An added benefit of the holster and matching case is that my phone is pretty much indestructible. Knock it off the sink in a hotel so it hits the tile? No problem. The screen faces inwards when it’s in the holster and my screens look immaculate for years without any kind of screen protector.
I have my Wife’s “Husband location device”, my boss’s “Minion location device”, my house keys and my work keys. Hard to keep my pants up. I’ve got a holster on a should strap for both of the location devices. I’ve used it a couple of times at work, and so far no one has burst out laughing.
I use one in the summer when I don’t have a shirt pocket. I don’t want it to get all scratched up in my pants and it’s easier to grab if you’re sitting down and want it.
I don’t care if people think it’s dorky. It’s a smart and efficient way to do it. Let others complain about replacing cracked screens.
I have no issues sitting with my iPhone 15 Pro in my left front pocket. And it’s in a case with an Apple Wallet on the back so it’s bulkier than a naked phone. Maybe if you are wearing really tight-fitting pants with no stretch.
The front left pocket has my wallet. I have a single house key in my back pocket. The front right has my phone and until recently a car key fob.
I carry no wallet; there’s an elastic card carrier adhered to the back of my phone with my DL, a CC, and a couple large bills. That’s the right front pocket.
If I’m driving someplace my car fob is in my other front pocket; I carry no old-fashioned mechanical keys. If I’m not driving, and I’m often not, the phone is the only thing in all 4 pants pockets.
It’s taken me years of ruthless minimization to get here. I just wish car fobs were the size and thickness of adult thumbnails, not the size and thickness of an old-fashioned matchbox.
In cold weather I have a jacket with an inside pocket on the upper left that is very suitable for a cell phone. And I like them as big as I can get.
Or the exact size and thickness of a cell phone (because the key is the cell phone). There’s a backup the precise shape of a credit card.
I can’t fathom the pants geometry people have where a phone in the pocket is somehow bulky or uncomfortable or has the tiniest chance of falling out. I have always carried my phone in my front pocket, and my phones have always been among the largest available, and I never use a case. Despite being large and maximally slippery (like my Pixel 6 Pro), not once have they ever come close to falling out of my pocket.
I’m not really sure how they’d fall out either. Unless I am doing a handstand, the opening to the pocket faces up.
Plus, when I’m sitting, the phone is flat and on top of my thigh. Even if it started to slide out somehow, it would run into my abdomen. I sorta have to lift my butt out of the chair to get the phone out. It’s held in well by friction in any case.
I too am confused about claims of phones falling out of pants pockets.
My complaint about sitting w my phone in my front pocket is I often wear snug pants that often don’t have real deep pockets. With the result that the top edge of the phone digs into the vertical part of my hip just above where the horizontal part of my leg attaches. Tolerable but not ideal. Easier to take it out before I sit down & leave it on the table, etc.
I currently carry my cell phone in my right front pocket, and have never worried about it falling out.
Back when I was carrying a flip phone I had a couple of shirts which had a pocket on one sleeve which was just the right size to carry it. While I normally still carried my phone in my pants pocket, when I was flying I carried my phone in the sleeve pocket because it was easier to get at while crammed into an airplane seat.
Yup. I still do it anyway.
I’m comfortable in my dorkiness.
For me, front pants pockets are already occupied. And the way I wear my Levis 501s, I would be attempting to fold my phone in half when sitting if it were in my front pocket.
And a phone holster is both secure and out of the way.