No, I do not wear a phone holster for my cell phone
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This thread in factual questions:
Resulted in several posters describing that they use phone holsters. I think I quit using a holster once I adopted the iPhone in 2008 and gave up my Blackberry. We have about 6,000 employees at our company and I don’t remember ever seeing anyone using a holster for their phone in the last 5 years. I thought maybe it’s a regional thing, but we’re a global company, and I’ve traveled to all of our locations during that time. Now I wasn’t specifically looking for people with holsters, so I could have missed someone.
Granted I’m just one person, but I think of pocket protectors when I think of phone holsters. I’m sure that there are very practical uses for them, but they are outdated IMHO.
They may be outdated, but they keep making and selling them so there must be a market for them. I’ve always used one because I didn’t think I had a choice. I grew up in IT with pagers and flip phones long before the iPhone was introduced, and almost everyone I knew kept their device on their belt. Those that didn’t were constantly looking for their device, which they set down somewhere on a flat surface. I didn’t have that problem since I always knew where it was.
When the iPhone came out I didn’t want to carry it around all day in my hand, I could easily set it down and never see it again. I wore jeans and a tee-shirt every day, and there were are no pockets in my shirt and only four pockets in my jeans. I could put my phone in the back pocket that didn’t have my wallet, but I would risk sitting on it and breaking it, and the front jean pockets on the jeans I bought were too tight to fit an iPhone in completely, so it would stick out a few inches, which isn’t very safe. If I sat down and my cell phone was in my front pocket it’s incredibly uncomfortable, which makes me take it out and set it on the table, which means there’s a good chance I will walk away without it.
My belt phone holster provides a safe, comfortable, and convenient place for my phone. I don’t care if it’s not cool, and I don’t care if it’s dorky. It’s functional and I have been doing it since I got my first flip phone many moons ago.
They’re outwardly uncool. It’s not quite as bad as a pocket protector but heading there. The Pete character in the Progressive ‘…Becoming Tour Parents’ ad series wears one.
Really? Peer pressure from juveniles? I didn’t care what my wife or kids said about it. I wasted a lot of time looking for their phones over the years. Only rarely would they have to help me find mine.
I used one when phones were about palm-sized, but that was quite some time ago now. Stopped when my phones no longer folded in half. I know there are smartphones now that fold in half, but they’re still pretty big even folded.
Now my standard leaving-the-house outfit includes shirts with large zippered breast pockets where I carry my phone.
I voted “NO” but actually I did use a phone holster…for a short while. Whether at work or play, it always snagged on anything and everything and drove my absolutely batty after about 2 or 3 days, and so ended my holder/holster phase.
Maybe you should try appendix carry. Just make sure you set it on vibrate; nobody wants to hear “I Will Survive” spontaneously screeching from your crotch.
I use a belt holster. I can’t fathom how people just put ‘em in their back pockets. I’m a big dude. Sitting on my phone is cruel and unusual punishment. And I’m certainly not going to carry it around in my hand.
I do agree it’s maybe one click better than a pocket protector in what it says about me. The good news? I’m 63 and care not a whit if anyone thinks I’m cool. Very liberating!
I’m 51 and they strike me as something people my parents’ age use. Nobody my age or younger typically uses them.
I had a belt-clip sort of affair for my old Ericsson phone back in about 2001, and got rid of it because the phone would go flying if I so much as sat on a couch that touched the phone, or bumped the phone on something, etc…
And fanny packs were the Mark of the Doofus when they first came out.
What may put me off of holsters is I have yet to find one where the clippy part doesn’t regularly find a way to slip off. Clank! There’s my phone and holster on the floor.
