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I use my cell phone as an alarm clock.
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Everybody who has my cell number knows better than to call it in the middle of the night unless it is something I need to know right then.
Is this typically an issue? Our phone is plugged in 24/7 and no one calls us after 9pm unless there’s some actual pressing reason. Maybe not always life or death but late night calls are rare enough that the once every six months my mom calls me at 9:30 at night to ask if I can come by in the morning isn’t something I really begrudge.
Maybe other people get a lot more phone calls than I do.
It’s on, but it’s usually on silent and in a different room. I like to charge it overnight in my iphone dock, which I keep in a different room from my bed. The biggest reasons I don’t like to turn it off is because if I do, then (1) missed calls only show up if the person left a voicemail message, and (2) there’s sometimes a significant lag between when I turn my phone on and when it delivers the voicemail and/or text messages that were sent to my phone while it was off.
My cell phone is my alarm clock in the mornings. I’d be totally screwed if I turned it off. (It’s usually silent for calls, though.)
I only use mine in my car or when in the grocery store (like to ask what brand/type of salad dressing I’m supposed to buy). I’ll turn it off when not in use to save on the battery. It stays in the car except in winter because cold temps seem to drain the battery.
You know that you can just turn the ringer off, right? You don’t have to actually unplug the phone from the wall.
Our nighttime phone calls dropped dramatically after our daughters left home. 
Thankfully they were in high school before cell phones got cheap enough to give kids. We let them have one in their junior year of high school.
I could probably leave my cell phone on and never get a late night call. I should try it for awhile and see.
I’ve known that you can use a cellphone as an alarm clock, but it tickles me to learn that a lot of people actually do. Something I’ve never thought about.
I vastly prefer it to my regular alarm clock because 1) it has settings that let me set recurring alarms for weekdays and weekends separately, 2) I can set it to different alarm sounds, and 3) it’s always with me, which is handy on vacations.
The only thing it doesn’t have is the ability to play a radio station as the alarm, which I admit I sometimes miss, but not enough to make up for the other features.
24/7. I have no land-line.
My wife does this. I use my tablet as my alarm clock which is about the same thing given that they’re all Android devices.
In fact, our clock radio has been blinking for the last week after a power flicker. Luckily, it’s set to “dim” so it hasn’t been noticeable.
I leave my Android on and charging. From 11PM to 8AM I have a program called Llama with a profile called “Calls only” that turns the volumes down on everything but the ringer at night. So I will hear phone calls but nothing else. It also automatically puts me in a “Quiet” profile (low volumes on everything) when I’m at work and “Normal” otherwise.
Why would I ever turn it off?
I still use our clock radio at home, but use my cell phone when I’m on travel. It’s really nice not having to figure out how to set the hotel’s clock radio, or worry that I may have screwed it up.
I shut it off when I go to bed at 11, and turn it on when I come back downstairs around 6 a.m. In the event of emergency, my home phone is by the bed. I got into the habit of shutting it off to preserve the battery; if I leave it on I’ll be down at 11% or something in the morning. I could just plug it in at the charging station but I’ve accidentally left for work and left it in the charger because it’s not sitting right there on the kitchen counter when I come downstairs, so I didn’t see it.
I don’t generally use it in the evening, but why bother turning it off? It’s on mute and consumes a trivial amount of power. And I’ll be charging it at work when not in use.
Just seems pointless to take the extra step of turning it off when there’s a chance I may want to use it.
I voted “other.” My phone is always on, but when I’m at home, it’s almost never near me. I leave it on one of two chargers at night – usually the one in the kitchen, which is on another floor of the apartment from my bedroom. And it’s always on vibrate anyway, meaning there’s absolutely no way I’d ever hear it going off at night.
I suppose there’s a small chance I might miss out on a family emergency this way, but my family has my “land” (Vonage) line number, and I’ve never had a problem yet. And, my methodology means I missed out on the fun a couple of weeks ago when Californians got the middle-of-the-night Amber Alert.
Also, I have it set to synch and do other housekeeping at 3 am.
I see no need to have a phone that isn’t wired into the wall with a rotary dial. If it was good enough for dear ol’ dad its good enough for me.
Just kidding. My iPhone is my only alarm clock. And usually my only watch for when I wake up in the middle of the night and wonder how much time I have left to sleep. We do have a landline in the house but it was my girlfriends house first and none of my family knows the number so they can’t contact me that way.
A rotary dial? When I was growing up, we had to tap the hang-up bar to make phone calls.
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