# How do you carry your (expensive) phone, and has it ever been lost, stolen, or broken? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [November 4, 2015, 6:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-carry-your-expensive-phone-and-has-it-ever-been-lost-stolen-or-broken/736593 "2015-11-04T06:31:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Tim\_R.Mortiss](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tim_r.mortiss/32/142_2.png) [@Tim\_R.Mortiss](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tim_R.Mortiss)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2015, 1:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-carry-your-expensive-phone-and-has-it-ever-been-lost-stolen-or-broken/736593/61 "2015-11-09T13:42:35Z")
> [@amanset](#): > > I’ve neither broken my phone nor had it stolen. > > I use this complicated thing called “my pocket”. Ditto for me. Shirt pocket if I have one, front trouser pocket if I don’t. The worst I’ve had happen was the screen got scratched up a bit from sharing a trouser pocket with coins. Nowadays, if I have a phone in one pocket, the coins go in the other pocket along with my keys. ---
**Author:** ![Mama\_Zappa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/71e660/32.png) [@Mama\_Zappa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mama_Zappa)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2015, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-carry-your-expensive-phone-and-has-it-ever-been-lost-stolen-or-broken/736593/62 "2015-11-10T00:00:45Z")
Never lost mine. I keep it in an outside (zipped) pocket on the purse, or in my pants pocket. I did damage the screen recently - at the kitchen table. We have this square of granite that we use as a trivet, and somehow I managed to drop it so that it got a corner of the granite smack in the middle of the screen. The screen protector helped so it’s just a chip, but still annoying. I shall have to look into replacing the screen. My husband has never had an issue with his belt-clipped phone (he uses an Otterbox Defender). He _has_ had it stolen right out of his hands on the Metro, which was explicitly excluded in the OP’s description. My son broke the screen on his phone - dropped it and somehow it hit “just right” and was badly damaged. The phone itself was fine - he could even still use it, but he replaced the screen and it was fine after that. ---
**Author:** ![MacSpon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/34f0e0/32.png) [@MacSpon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MacSpon)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2015, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-carry-your-expensive-phone-and-has-it-ever-been-lost-stolen-or-broken/736593/63 "2015-11-10T00:27:26Z")
I’m on my third iPhone. I don’t use a case or a belt clip; the phone just lives in my pants pocket. Never had a lost or stolen (or even damaged) phone; I’ve only every bought a new one as an upgrade. ---
**Author:** ![It\_s\_Not\_Rocket\_Surgery](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/it_s_not_rocket_surgery/32/312_2.png) [@It\_s\_Not\_Rocket\_Surgery](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/It_s_Not_Rocket_Surgery)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2015, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-carry-your-expensive-phone-and-has-it-ever-been-lost-stolen-or-broken/736593/64 "2015-11-10T01:12:03Z")
Never had my phone damaged or stolen. I’ve written about this before, but mostly I credit the belt clip on the Nite Ize cases for my phones staying in one piece. They use a [clip design](http://www.windowscentral.com/sites/wpcentral.com/files/resource_images/Nite_20Ize_20Case_20Clip.jpg) which neither has to be put on when the belt is first worn, and doesn’t fall off either. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-carry-your-expensive-phone-and-has-it-ever-been-lost-stolen-or-broken/736593.md?page=3)