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It’s always around me. Either in my purse, on my desk or table or couch or charging station at my bed.
My husband and I just have our cell phones; there’s no land line and no plans to ever get one. I don’t even like calling on my phone, but I txt just about everyone* and use my iPhone for tons of things. It’s practically an extension of my arm. I seriously can’t imagine having a cell phone and keeping it turned off. It’s easier to just think about not having a cell phone at all.
- and get momentarily frustrated when I want to talk to older (60+) friends who don’t text and always have their cell off.
Almost always - in the office I leave it on the desk when going to the toilet as I consider it Not Done to answer the phone there. Also when cycling or driving I don’t answer the phone, of course. In meetings I switch to vibrate.
It is actually more convenient to me to be reachable almost always because an incoming call is quickly dealt with when taken at once - much quicker than chasing each other’s voicemail back and forth.
Also the people I telephone with are mostly my kind of people - people who only call for necessary facts and transactions; the calls are usually just for 20-60 seconds. Curious when I think of it - I often do snappy half-minute calls to set up a meeting where we talk away the evening.
It’s at least near me almost all the time, with the significant caveat that my office is in a “no cell phones” part of our building. (While I’m in there, it sits in a cabinet just outside our work area along with many of my co-workers’ phones.) At home “near me” means someplace in the house, where I’d hear it if it rang.
About the only person who ever calls me is my wife, but I use the internet and other applications on this thing all the time and feel somewhat lost without it.
It’s basically never turned off - I can (and often do) ignore calls that I’m not interested in taking at the moment, but I do like to know that one has come in.
I reluctantly got my first cell phone in 2005, at the age of 34. Especially after I transitioned to a smartphone in 2008, I don’t relish the thought of going back. I don’t use it as a phone all that much, but it’s like Reverse gear in your car; you spend relatively little time actually utilizing it, but things would be much more difficult if it wasn’t available.
I carry my cell phone when I feel I’ll need it. Otherwise, it’s in the van.
Mine is with me all the time. (although I don’t actually use it that much–at least compared to the kids I know)
My 7 year-old was hit by a car while I was at a baseball game a few years back. I had my cell phone, but couldn’t hear it ringing. Eventually, they put my name up on the score board asking me to call security and I got out my phone and saw the messages. Being able to be reached in the unlikely event of a severe emergency is enough incentive to me to always have it on.
For as much as I use it, I should upgrade to this for my next phone.
I usually take it with me because I don’t know who may call me, although they usually don’t.
I keep my ringer off. Where I live, I do not have a landline phone, and the sound of a ringing phone drives me crazy. I find them highly annoying. I remember as a kid having to literally drop everything and rush to the telephone because I did not have call waiting and maybe the call was important. If the person never called back, it was a mystery who called.
A few months ago, my answer would have been “Just when I need to make a call.” But now that I have an iPhone, it’s replaced my Palm PDA, my iPod, my cell phone, and more or less replaced my Nintendo DS as well, and gone up to the “24/7” category. I still don’t make calls often.
I have an iPhone. Yes, it’s always with me. I can play music through my car stereo. I use it as an alarm clock to wake to music. I can surf the web from my bed. I can watch streaming ESPN on MobiTV. I can read books with the Kindle app. It’s a multi-function toy. And yes, I do make the occasional call with it, too.
Ditto - it happens to live in my purse which is nearly always with me (as I carry daily medications etc.). However I might not have it with me if I’m on a different floor of the house, for example.
I carry mine everywhere. It’s a smartphone, and as such is a really handy device to have. Pretty much what Student Driver says upthread. You don’t need to take a call on it because voicemail exists, and the other forms of communication available on the device are asynchronous anyway. I do have a landline for internet access, and there’s a phone attached, but it very rarely gets used. Great pieces of technology, modern mobile phones are.
Yes, of course! I am on-call.
Everyone around me seems to carry a cell phone 24/7. Even at work, when another engineer comes into my office, he/she is invariably playing with their cell phone. :rolleyes:
*What *is the fascination with these devices? 
*Who *are you talking to all the time?
Having said this, I do have a cell phone. It’s a very old (4 year-old) TracFone. No camera, no internet, no keyboard, B&W screen. I do not carry it with me. It stays in my Jeep. It is always off. Unless I need to make a phone call, in which case I turn it on, make the call, and then turn it back off. I average about one call a month.