Cell Phones

[Damelon]

I have an iPhone 4S. I use it mostly for mobile browsing rather than for the phone - even though these days I give it out as my primary number. April, the month my mother died, was the first month in years that I used up my minute allotment.

I don't see much difference between it and my last phone, a Motorola Droid. The iphone maybe lasts a bit longer on a battery charge.

[sgt.null]

samsung. t mobile carrier. flip top. makes and takes calls and emails. not much else.

[Cagliostro]

Maybe I'm a cheap bastard, but now that I don't have a free cell phone with where I work, I can't believe the prices for smart phones on a monthly basis.
Currently I have none. In the nearly two months I have been without, I've only missed it twice. My wife has a pay as you go affair, and I suspect I'll end up with the same. At the moment, I am happy to be free from the constant recharging.
Then again, I have no friends.

[Shaun das Schaf]

I'll be your friend Cag, but I'm not very good at keeping in touch so I'll never call and your lack of phone won't be a problem.

Similar to Av, I have a state-of-the art, all mod-cons included, trusty brick like this....



I also have this even stater-of-the-arter model as a back-up, but I do miss the lack of predictive texting when I have to use it.



Sometimes I miss having a net connection on the go; mostly to check work emails when I'm skiving off in town for the day, but I can go to a library for that and if it's important, work will call the brick... or sack me. I think about updating but I can't be bothered and I'd probably just spend more time on the phone which would be bad for my RSI.

P.S. Hi David, welcome back.

[Cagliostro]

I'll be your friend Cag, but I'm not very good at keeping in touch so I'll never call and your lack of phone won't be a problem.

Yay! A friend!

[Iolanthe]

Mine's a bit like your blue one, Shaun, but probably older, has silver buttons and orange bits round the side and where you turn it on, but I do have predictive text.

I used to have my daughter's old first phone which was much bigger than this. When it went kaput I took it to the shop and asked if I could have a new one like it. The woman in the shop took one look at the phone and laughed out loud. Needless to say, I ended up with this one.

[aliantha]

You guys are funny. The first thing I did with the new phone was turn off predictive text. It drives me nuts.

[Vader]

I used to have a simple Nokia 6700 classic cell. During aour last camping holidays I found ouzt that simple stuff like checking the weather over the internet with this thing wasa pain in the lower back.

Well, my contract with T-Mobile runs 2 years and everytime I prolong it I get a "new" phone. Just a few weeks ago I renewed the contract again and they gave me a Samsung Galaxy Ace GT s5839i smartphone.

I never really was into cell phones before and the Nokia was just lying around uncharged most of the time, but now I can hardly imagine a live without smartphones anymore. I turned into an appoholic. :p

[sgt.null]

i am hoping when our contract runs out someone wants to give us better phones to sign up.

[Shaun das Schaf]

You guys are funny. The first thing I did with the new phone was turn off predictive text. It drives me nuts.

No, YOU'RE funny. And nuts. You gotta use 3x as many keystrokes without it. Each to their own and I fully respect your preference, but you're still nuts.

Vader, I think that's why I won't update. I know I wouldn't use a smartphone responsibly. I figure any downtime from the net is good and a smartphone would head in the opposite direction. But yeah, I do miss the mobile functionality.

[Menolly]

You guys are funny. The first thing I did with the new phone was turn off predictive text. It drives me nuts.

No, YOU'RE funny. And nuts. You gotta use 3x as many keystrokes without it. Each to their own and I fully respect your preference, but you're still nuts.

I'm thinking ali has a QWERTY keyboard available on her iPhone, SdS.

If not, and it is the standard alphanumeric keypad I have, then I totally agree with you. T9 is a PITA at times, but most often it is a time saver for me.

[Shaun das Schaf]

I'm thinking ali has a QWERTY keyboard available on her iPhone, SdS.

If not, and it is the standard alphanumeric keypad I have, then I totally agree with you. T9 is a PITA at times, but most often it is a time saver for me.

Ah, well possession of that particular mod-con changes things a little.
I still think she's nuts but I guess I'll have to present other evidence.

[aliantha]

Presented as evidence: www.autocorrectfail.org/

And yeah, the QWERTY keyboard makes all the difference. (Even though it's a virtual one, which has its own, uh, joys.) I forgot you were doing the "for the letter S, tap this key three times, turn around once, point your phone due north and stand on your head for ten seconds" thing.

[rdhopeca]

Presented as evidence: www.autocorrectfail.org

and this: www.damnyouautocorrect.com/category/best-of-dyac/ NSFW...lol...

[Shaun das Schaf]

Presented as evidence: www.autocorrectfail.org/

And yeah, the QWERTY keyboard makes all the difference. (Even though it's a virtual one, which has its own, uh, joys.) I forgot you were doing the "for the letter S, tap this key three times, turn around once, point your phone due north and stand on your head for ten seconds" thing.

It's actually 12 seconds but you still made me laugh out loud, which is my favourite thing about people who are nuts.

Those autocorrect errors are good evidence for turning it off, but I always read before sending because I'm an obssesif editer.

[Avatar]

You guys are funny. The first thing I did with the new phone was turn off predictive text. It drives me nuts.

Amen!

--A

[SoulBiter]

I have no desire to own a web-phone. Not because I'm not technological. I'm very up to date on tech stuff. But because I'm frugal.

My phone, no web access, limited texting, no bells and whistles.

LG Cosmos.

[I'm Murrin]

I'm using a Sony Ericsson Xperia Arc S. Mostly use it for Twitter, RSS feeds from blogs, and lately, Google Maps (comes in very handy abroad. Don't have to be connected, it caches the area you were looking at last time you had internet access (and GPS is free, when it actually works)).

[Iolanthe]

You guys are funny. The first thing I did with the new phone was turn off predictive text. It drives me nuts.

Amen!

--A

Er, I said my phone has predictive text, not that I actually use it.

[MsMary]

Presented as evidence: www.autocorrectfail.org/

And yeah, the QWERTY keyboard makes all the difference. (Even though it's a virtual one, which has its own, uh, joys.) I forgot you were doing the "for the letter S, tap this key three times, turn around once, point your phone due north and stand on your head for ten seconds" thing.

It's actually 12 seconds but you still made me laugh out loud, which is my favourite thing about people who are nuts.

Those autocorrect errors are good evidence for turning it off, but I always read before sending because I'm an obssesif editer.

Ha! I can see you are an obsessif editor.

Autocorrect can be annoying, but I get used to words being completed for me really fast. Like Shaun, I find it saves a lot of time.