# How do you carry your phone? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [November 2, 2015, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-carry-your-phone/736386 "2015-11-02T02:29:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![seal\_cleaner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e274bd/32.png) [@seal\_cleaner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/seal_cleaner)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2015, 2:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-carry-your-phone/736386/101 "2015-11-04T02:13:11Z")
Over 40 male, front right pants pocket. I agree clips are dorky. Several of the sales guys I the office use them. ---
**Author:** ![Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spectre_of_pithecanthropus/32/12343_2.png) [@Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spectre_of_Pithecanthropus)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2015, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-carry-your-phone/736386/102 "2015-11-04T02:23:05Z")
> [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](#): > > During the work week: inside suit coat pocket. In the climate around these parts I can’t keep anything in a jacket pocket, because it’s impossible to keep a jacket on. I always have to take it off (which is why I almost never wear jackets in the first place), and then I would have to worry about a rather heavy and costly item falling to the floor or pavement from elbow height, where I would have the jacket draped over an arm. All suit and sport jackets should have an inner-inner breast pocket secured with a zippered closure, but they almost never do. ---
**Author:** ![glowacks](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/glowacks/32/5548_2.png) [@glowacks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/glowacks)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2015, 5:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-carry-your-phone/736386/103 "2015-11-04T05:06:03Z")
In the center console of my car. It effectively never gets used unless there’s an actual emergency. ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Strangelove](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr.strangelove/32/6613_2.png) [@Dr.Strangelove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Strangelove)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2015, 5:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-carry-your-phone/736386/104 "2015-11-04T05:43:14Z")
> [@Anaamika](#): > > Ok. But why do younger men wear them? My SO has worn them all his life and I don’t know why - he wears pants that fit him. I will ask him tonight. Until I started buying them online, I found it virtually impossible to find jeans that fit properly. Either a too-large waist or too-short inseam. Since I don’t like high water pants, I erred on the waist. Which meant the belt was mandatory. Even with correctly fitting pants, a bit of sweating will cause them to expand enough that they won’t stay up properly without a belt. Anyway: Front left jeans pocket for me. Keys and coins in the right. ---
**Author:** ![Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spectre_of_pithecanthropus/32/12343_2.png) [@Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spectre_of_Pithecanthropus)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2015, 6:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-carry-your-phone/736386/105 "2015-11-04T06:41:21Z")
Related poll: [Losing your phone, and how you carry it](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=774161) ---
**Author:** ![MovieMogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2015, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-carry-your-phone/736386/106 "2015-11-04T19:21:26Z")
Pocket ---
**Author:** ![The\_Evil\_Prince\_Zorte](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e95f7d/32.png) [@The\_Evil\_Prince\_Zorte](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Evil_Prince_Zorte)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2015, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-carry-your-phone/736386/107 "2015-11-04T19:31:59Z")
Over 40, front pants pocket with the screen facing my leg, nothing else in that pocket to scratch it or fall out from the phone getting taken out all of the time. I don’t use a case and the phone is pretty slim, so it isn’t uncomfortable whether I wear jeans or cargos. Most of my jeans will actually fit an 8" Galaxy Tab, which you wouldn’t want to walk around with, but is a good place to stash it if I need to free up a hand for a second. I had a belt clip once back in the days of brick phones, and kept smashing it into the edges of the kitchen counters. ---
**Author:** ![SurrenderDorothy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/surrenderdorothy/32/1221_2.png) [@SurrenderDorothy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SurrenderDorothy)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2015, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-carry-your-phone/736386/108 "2015-11-04T20:06:58Z")
Under 40 and I keep it either in a pocket of my purse or in my back pocket. It’ll go in a jacket or hoodie pocket if I’m wearing a jacket or hoodie sometimes. I do have an armband for it for when I’m working out. ---
**Author:** ![Dervorin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/eb8c5e/32.png) [@Dervorin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dervorin)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2015, 1:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-carry-your-phone/736386/109 "2015-11-06T13:40:59Z")
Under 40, I have a personal phone carrying elephant. When he isn’t available, I use my pockets. ---
**Author:** ![Colophon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f05b48/32.png) [@Colophon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colophon)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2015, 1:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-carry-your-phone/736386/110 "2015-11-06T13:46:22Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > Over forty. Unlike Kiwi Fruit, I _only_ wear jeans: Phone in the left front pocket, keys in the right front, wallet in the back right, and checkbook in the back left. _Checkbook_? Are you over one-hundred-and-forty? ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2015, 1:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-carry-your-phone/736386/111 "2015-11-06T13:47:42Z")
Over 40. Front left jeans pocket. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-carry-your-phone/736386.md?page=5)