Thread: Am I the only one in the world who never had a cell phone ?

Originally Posted by JimmyHAD

They laughed at me because I still have a land line. Until the hurricanes knocked out the power for days and then everyone wanted to use my phone.

For me, the annual cost of maintaining that landline is hardly worth the ability to talk on a phone during the rare lengthy power outage.

I have VoIP and a prepaid cell.

I always say I will get a cell phone when they make 'em like a real phone, by cracky. With a crank to call Central, and one piece to hold up to yer ear and another piece to yell into.

~Rich

I've had a phone off and on for a few years - ages ago, when I had an old beater of a car, my parents gave me a pay-as-you-go phone, that I paid $10 a month to top-up - I hardly ever used it, and would frequently lose my minutes because I forgot to renew in time.

Now I have a Blackberry for work that does email and phone - I've used the phone feature 3 times in a year. I have the thing turn itself on at 7am and off at 6pm, M-F.

Other than that, I hate those digital leashes. I don't want to be in contact 24/7.

Mark

I've got a pre-paid phone that was a hand-me-down from my 16 year old son.Hardly ever use it.Only time I like it is when my wife and I are shopping and separated.I call her to say "are you almost done?"Wonder why she doesn't answer sometimes?

i have had a cell phone for 6 years now and can't wait to switch it to pay-as-you-go in February when my contract is up. the actual phone is the best one i have had yet quality wise, but i hate the expense and i hate the health risks of using them too often. i keep mine in the car and that is where it will stay for emergencies when i switch it over.

i also got rid of all my cordless phones.

i was at a second hand store the other day and bought an old rotary phone that is like new for $5. it works great and has much better sound quality then my newer ones.

I need one for work but I can't stand it.

Here's my favorite thing about my cell phone other than all the other things I love about it so much:

• It beeps at me incessantly if someone leaves me a voicemail.
• I check the voicemail and delete the voicemail when I'm done listening to it.
• Then......after putting the phone down, it beeps incessantly at me.........telling me that I missed answering the call that ended up being a voicemail!

We got rid of our cable TV and don't have an antenna on our house and therefore don't get network TV. Aside from the internet I'd LOVE to turn off and drop out.

No, I don't like cell phones.

Chris L

the next thing for me is getting rid of my Bell Expressvu satellite. it was great at first but the movies they keep playing over and over again for like 3 months without changing them! if i wasn't sharing the bill others in the house it would be gone! it is very tempting to just get rid of it and spend the money on getting my high speed internet back. then it will be download central.

Cell Phones are great. Phone,email, web, gps, mp3. Gotta love it.

I delayed as long as i could to have one Cell phone! But when i got out of the college, started to work and started to date with my wife that lived far away..i was forced to have one..pre-paid thought! Now if i left / forget the phone in home, i feel "naked" all day! ..worst than that its that now i have to buy another one to my own office..1 private + another for business..and this one has to be a Smartphone...

Originally Posted by JimmyHAD

I was in the PO this morning picking up a package that needed a signature. In the line were a couple of people with those "ear bug" phones. So they are babbling , one of them in what sounded like Swedish, and it appears to the casual observer that they are talking to themselves.

In the fifties and sixties it would have appeared they were crazy and I always am slightly amused when I see someone doing this. If they don't have the ear bugs their elbow is bent with their cell phone firmly pressed to their ear. Driving, in line at a store....even while getting tattooed cell phones are ubiquitous.

Is there anyone else out there but me who has never owned a cell phone ?

Jimmy HAD I have never had a mobile phone, in fact do not know how to operate one. If I had my own business it would be different. Being a luddite, iffen it don't run on kerosene I aint interested. I never wish to be either that important or that contactable. I hate the things going off all over the place and the incessant nervous thumbs constantly stabbing key boards.

Cheers all