does everyone have a mobile phone except me?

The mobile phone has meant none of us have to make arrangements any more, surely a good thing.

Also mine is cow-coloured.

however, i'm mellowing towards them and may even, ooeer, get one.

they're bloody useful, but...

Yeah, I have to say this is paramount with me. When I'm on the bus to and from work (say), I prefer reading or thinking or whatever rather than chatting on the phone. I keep a regular enough schedule that people know where to find me -- and if I'm out, I've got an answering machine. ;-)

E-mail is for arranging stuff.

i love mobiles but one thing they have done is make appointments superfluos 'coz you can always call to cancel/delay etc

Does Moby know about this?

But if I'm otherwise near a phone when I want to be contactable, the need for a mobile phone always turned off is a bit odd. Though I appreciate that way of using a phone from a bloody-minded point of view. ;-)

ultimately i left it in a taxi cab and two weeks later i realized that my quality of life had improved substantially. ahhhh! i think part of the frivolity of mobile phones in canada comes from the fact that you can still put 35 cents in a payphone and talk as long as you like to any local phone number (mobile or not).

no cell phone for me either. i used one the other day that was the size of a breath mint - i'd lose it within hours if i had one. anyway i never answer the phone at home so why drag that habit out into the world. besides, there are only two or three people i ever need to reach urgently and when i do i use telepathy.

are you a j2me developer by any chance?

i don't have one as yet but might get one of the java-enabled ones shortly if the colour ones get a bit cheaper, a nokia 7210 maybe.

andy

I have one now! It doesn't work yet, though, and knowing me it never quite will.

I don't have one, and telling this to people (especially freshman) is a good way to get treated like I live in a cave.

I don't have one either and I don't care who knows it.

i love my cell phone so much, it hurts.

Time to take it out of your ass then, Surmounter.

I have one. If I need a new one I'll get a cheap ass 50 euro one cause by fuck I don't need a camera or whatever the fuck else is on it. Phone and text message that's all I need.

i also finally got a phone a few weeks ago! it has improved my life

still no

might get a broadband dongle with a sim in it though. does that count?

wtf is a broadband dongle

a very wide dildo

So you bought that bottle of rhum then?

No, alas, I still breastfeed. :-)

i brother got me one (mobile phone, not wide dildo) against my will. i've used it twice within the two months i've had it.

the wosrt part is he's always like "hey, we have to pay the cellphone bill soon". wtf, i didn't even want the fuckin thing. fuck you.

MY brother.

So you bought that bottle of rhum then? -- Ed

No, alas, I still breastfeed. :-)
-- stevienixed

Hm. Doesn't seem to interfere with thinkin''bout wide dildos and Surmounter's arse, tho, doesn't breastfeedin', eh?

My thoughts do not influence my milk (yet). :-)

i wish i didnt have one. if everyone before managed to cope without them, im sure we could today.

says the guy using a computer

I still don't have one! ok!

I have one, but I haven't used it for ages.

People get frustrated when you don't have one, like 'WHAT? You have to be at HOME for me to reach you?' They seriously get angry! Can we just have faith I still exist if I'm not in my house? Also I don't much care for picking up the phone at home if it's someone I don't want to talk to. I also don't listen to phone messages. This hasn't lost me any friends or money, so I'm happy with the arrangement.

I can't hear shit on my cellphone. My best friend will call me up on it and want to have these 35 minute life conversations, and I'm like, dude, call me on my landline.

The bad thing is I have Vonage and people can't hear me anyway. ;_; looking into new options here.

Semaphore.

I could act out Wuthering Heights!

Hahah

i am finally starting to feel embarrassed that i still have a regular cell phone. it's one of those flip-phones that people would've been pretty excited about 12 years ago. i didn't care for a while -- even preferred it, and enjoyed having some separation from the internet -- but now it feels like i'm in a lonely position. well, i guess my parents, my wife, and a couple of my siblings are in the same boat, but then it just feels like i come from this weird family that hasn't caught up with the times. outside my family i pretty much never see anyone doesn't have a smartphone at this point.

the weirdness/annoyance of it occurs to me most often when i'm texting, it's such a pain in the ass to text on a regular cell phone. i know i'll update at some point but i don't feel like spending the extra money, either. i'm on a computer 8 hours a day for work anyway so that's been the main reason i haven't gotten one.

any other ilxors that still don't have one? what are your reasons?

no smartphone, no cellphone; i very often like to be left alone

i'm in good company then :)

I am a dire oldster. My wife and I share a no-contract prepaid flip phone. It gets turned on maybe 10 minutes a month on average. We give out the number to hardly anyone. It's for emergencies only. Texting? Never.

I guess it qualifies as a smartphone, but my old timey blackberry supplied by my work is the only cell phone I've ever owned and it doesn't feel particularly smart

and "owned" is obviously a loose phrase here, I don't really own it

Like Aimless, I have a no-contract prepaid flip phone and I don't plan on upgrading any time soon. The only time I ever feel like I'm behind the times is when I'm texting, which happens very rarely. I primarily use the house phone and e-mail to get in touch with people; I mainly carry the cell phone around for emergencies.

Not having a smartphone or a mobile phone sounds like bliss to me. Last Friday I was with a colleague who accidentally dropped his Blackberry. He looked genuinely disappointed when he picked it up and the screen hadn't shattered. I asked whether he was due an upgrade and he told me that it would have been a good excuse for a quiet, work-free weekend...

I switched to an Android about fifteen months ago after years of flip phone. I worried it would change my texting/surfing habits. It hasn't.

I still have a house line! I get more calls on it than on the cellphone.

ha, I wish for a similar death to my blackberry, but only because I desperately would love an upgrade, I'm not at all flooded with calls

we still have a landline at home, although we recently cancelled our long distance plan

My 10 year old Nokia phone is now held together with a rubber band, and it conks out approximately 4 minutes into calls. I'll keep going to the bitter end with it though. Why? I have no idea.

i seriously need to get rid of this thing

still free

i am ready to give up this pos except i need gps in this garbage city

my aunt and uncle have a rotary phone, they do NOT have cell phones lol

i think they feel it'd be impractical for them (which maybe it would be) and that someone would hack it to get their credit card number or something weird

Even if I didn't have a mobile phone I think I'd still enjoy the convenience of a computer I can put in my pocket. And so to have the phone piece tagged on as An afterthought is fine with me.

i am ready to give up this pos except i need gps in this garbage city

get a handheld gps, they are cool to hold in your hand and the battery lasts way longer than a phone