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I feel old. My cell phone is like 2, maybe even 3 years old. It's kinda heavy and chunky and doesn't have anywhere near the cool options everyone else's does. Oh, no!

This got me to thinking about how not only are the newest, coolest models of cell phone so damn prevalent - in my little society, everyone I know has one. Except for the preschooler and the baby. - but cell phones themselves are. And like a lot of people who grew up without the existence of a technology (say, computers or cell phones) and who then witnessed the birth of that technology, I had a moment of WTF where I just tripped out on how fast culture changes due to technological cancer-like abundance.

Perhaps a better question for this would be... do you NOT have a cell phone?

I get a new phone every year on my contract. Score!

http://www.digitaltechnews.com/photos/uncategorized/tmobile_dash.jpg
Thats my new phone

I have one, I hardly use it.

I do, but i don't like it much.
If i'm gonna bother with one ... i'm going to have to have one that i can load my soundbites and songs and such onto. As yet, more important fiduciary matters have priority.

i got a new one recently for my birthday!


course, i had to pay for it :(



but i LOVE it


mainly because almost a year ago, i had a real kickass phone, then i broke it and got a different one, and i HATED it

i mean, with a PASSION

because if you're gonna be passionate about something, it might as well be your cell phone :cool:

I have a Sony Ericsson T-610. Several years old, and I need to upgrade, 'cos I b0rk3d it.

i have a cell phone that i use to make and recieve calls when i am away from home.

my niece recently passed her camera phone on to me when she needed a new one because she changed servers. i have a camera to take pictures with, i have no interest in using the crappy lens on a camera phone. i certainly have no need to read and compose email on my phone, listen to music on my phone, watch music videos on my phone, or browse the net on my phone.

Yes. I try to avoid using it.

I've got two. One is my own, but I never use it unless I'm back home or texting someone (which is never). And then my crappy work phone, one of those yellow motorola phones that you can go play baseball with but not really cause the suck the nut. I'm on my 2nd one of those, the first had "unobvious water damage" according to motorola.

No, I have a mobile phone :p

I lost my cell phone that was three years old and they sent me a replacement that's newer, because mine was obsolete and I guess they aren't selling them anymore or something. This one has a screen that's in color! And I can even pick a background or something! :)

My mobile telephony device is indeed useful.

No, I have a mobile phone :p

Heh ;)

I have an N-Gage, which I bought a couple of years ago because it was cheap and has a built-in FM radio (which was really the main thing I used my mobile for at the time). Sometimes my boss or girlfriend actually calls it.

It does seem to enjoy corrupting the MMC when I put music on it though :(

We call them mobile phones here. :p

Yeah, I have one. Not only is it two years old, the phone uses technology that is about to be discontinued for public use (it's a CDMA phone, and the technology has been superceded by 3G technology). It's definitely showing it's age - the camera in it's crap. In fact, my standalone digital camera's crap. Most phones have about the same quality in their cameras now... :eek:

I have had a cell phone since the 80's. Started out with a suitcase phone that could be carried about. The second phone I had was one of those brick phones that would get so hot after talking awhile one had to put it down or risk burning their hand.

No, I have a mobile phone :p

To be fair "Cell phone" is more descriptive of the style of operating then just "mobile"

To be fair "Cell phone" is more descriptive of the style of operating then just "mobile"

Indeed it is. My landline could be described as mobile, to a degree.

Yep. Though the particular phone I have is a result of O2's incompetence and/or deafness of their "retentions" department. I specify I want a one-piece (ie. not a flip or slide design) phone that's not black. I get a Motorola RIZR Z3 (a slide design), which is, you guessed it, black. The contract's cheap-as-chips, mind (and the phone itself was free), so I didn't complain.

Perhaps a better question for this would be... do you NOT have a cell phone?

That's what I thought when I read the title of the thread...

I get a new phone every year on my contract. Score!

ditto.

this is what i got now:
http://img170.imageshack.us/img170/2304/847452445bbc5c22af7.jpg

this is what i want next:

http://img170.imageshack.us/img170/7959/nokian95saun8302fp6.jpg

Indeed it is. My landline could be described as mobile, to a degree.

Then you have "hotspot" or wireless skype style phones which use a 802.11 standard ...

Mine fell into a pond and a fish ate it before I could get it back out.

Damn you, nature, for taking away my technology!

I have a mobile phone, though I hate it. I don't use very often.

I have one of these.
http://www.handynow.de/handy-zubehoer-1/nokia-3310.jpg

*wins*

I must confess I find the camera and video on my phone bloody useful at times; generally concerts, when trolleyed or when I'm on a vanity rampage, but the walkman serves little purpose, what with my IPod holding more songs.

Not sure why I signed up to a £25 per month contract to be honest, except to get a snazzy new phone free.

I feel old. My cell phone is like 2, maybe even 3 years old. It's kinda heavy and chunky and doesn't have anywhere near the cool options everyone else's does. Oh, no!

This got me to thinking about how not only are the newest, coolest models of cell phone so damn prevalent - in my little society, everyone I know has one. Except for the preschooler and the baby. - but cell phones themselves are. And like a lot of people who grew up without the existence of a technology (say, computers or cell phones) and who then witnessed the birth of that technology, I had a moment of WTF where I just tripped out on how fast culture changes due to technological cancer-like abundance.

Perhaps a better question for this would be... do you NOT have a cell phone?

I don't have, nor do I feel the need for, a cell phone.

I still have the same cell phone after 5 years. I don't know where it is, since I never use it.

I bought a new phone yesterday. It's a Samsung SCH-u740 in black. Hot stuff.

http://www.uberphones.com/photos/2007/4/all-black-sch-u740.jpg

Yeah it opens two ways.

i have a 4 year old kyocera phone with the copper bristle end of a gun cleaning rod jammed in where the antenna broke off.

In nine days when I leave for china, I will finally retire it.

I feel old. My cell phone is like 2, maybe even 3 years old. It's kinda heavy and chunky and doesn't have anywhere near the cool options everyone else's does. Oh, no!

This got me to thinking about how not only are the newest, coolest models of cell phone so damn prevalent - in my little society, everyone I know has one. Except for the preschooler and the baby. - but cell phones themselves are. And like a lot of people who grew up without the existence of a technology (say, computers or cell phones) and who then witnessed the birth of that technology, I had a moment of WTF where I just tripped out on how fast culture changes due to technological cancer-like abundance.

Perhaps a better question for this would be... do you NOT have a cell phone?
There's worse things than that... At least we know how the world was like without mobile phones.

And I have this chunky old bone:
http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y223/GermanNightmare/nokia_3110.jpg

Not going to get a new one unless it really gives in, either. I just don't see a reason to.

There's worse things than that... At least we know how the world was like without mobile phones.

And I have this chunky old bone:
http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y223/GermanNightmare/nokia_3110.jpg

Not going to get a new one unless it really gives in, either. I just don't see a reason to.

Now that is a relic! *applauds*

Now that is a relic! *applauds*

Hey! I had a much more relicy one until about a year ago. Also didn't see the point of getting a new one. Until I was slain by the technically flawed beauty that is this:

http://phone.mobile9.com/img/siemens-sf65-4.jpg

Apart from loving my pretty new phone, I don't like the things much and am notoriously bad at remembering to switch them on. I always carry it aound with me in case the car breaks down or something, though.

I have one of these.
http://www.handynow.de/handy-zubehoer-1/nokia-3310.jpg

*wins*

Best 'phone evar!
Well, along with the 3410, 1100 and similar Nokias that're basically all exactly the same.

Three! OK, two are crappy phones with broken something and bad batteries but the current one is a Nokia 6131.

It's my MP3 player, radio and alarm clock now.

mainly because almost a year ago, i had a real kickass phone, then i broke it and got a different one, and i HATED it

i mean, with a PASSION


Me too! I had the kickass Sony Erricson w600i. Greatest phone ever made in my opion. It broke![WHY?!?!:( ]Anyway they replaced it with an LG CU500. It was so inferior. Had not nearly half the features.I used to think well a phone's a phone. It's meant to call people. Well upon comparing the two I missed my 600. Plus even though I had the same network I got much,much worse service. I traded it in. Now I have my Sony Errison 810i. It's great.Totally awesome. I know what you're thinking, it's the same phone. Yes, but I still miss my 600.

The Good (http://photobucket.com/mediadetail/?media=http%3A%2F%2Fi46.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Ff129%2Fmd_randy%2F2057ecd6.jpg&searchTerm=w600i&pageOffset=2) I put the blue cover on! :D

The bad/ugly (http://photobucket.com/mediadetail/?media=http%3A%2F%2Fi154.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fs249%2Fbcdemail%2FCingular%2Flg%2Flgcu500.gif&searchTerm=cu500&pageOffset=4) Horrible service! :upyours:

And the almost as good but not quite (http://www.2nd-handys.de/img/sony_ericsson_w810i.jpg)It's awesome.

No, and I never want one. I'm not keen on radio waves being beamed from the cellphone right next to my ear. (They're dangerous. Ever been near a relay station? I have, and I was knocked unconscious by the sheer power of the radio waves.)

I need one because finding a public phone is impossible and if you do find one, it's vandalised - and if it works, then it does not give any change anyway.

Now that is a relic! *applauds*
speaking of........
http://www.topmarket.co.il/products_pictures/image/1100_mainpage_s1-nokia.jpg

^ Smunk's old ass phone.

Is it ghetto? Yes! It is ghetto!

also, I can compose my own ringtones.

No, and I never want one. I'm not keen on radio waves being beamed from the cellphone right next to my ear. (They're dangerous. Ever been near a relay station? I have, and I was knocked unconscious by the sheer power of the radio waves.)
I have too ... no effect

Gah. I hate phones. *shudder* It bothers me when I use them....

No, and I never want one. I'm not keen on radio waves being beamed from the cellphone right next to my ear. (They're dangerous. Ever been near a relay station? I have, and I was knocked unconscious by the sheer power of the radio waves.)

Umm...Maybe it's your metal springs?

No, and I never want one. I'm not keen on radio waves being beamed from the cellphone right next to my ear. (They're dangerous. Ever been near a relay station? I have, and I was knocked unconscious by the sheer power of the radio waves.)

*NOT* good.
:eek:

*NOT* good.
:eek:

Hmm...Perhaps some implants he doesn't know about? Of the...bionic persuasion?

Hey! I had a much more relicy one until about a year ago. Also didn't see the point of getting a new one. Until I was slain by the technically flawed beauty that is this:

http://phone.mobile9.com/img/siemens-sf65-4.jpg

Apart from loving my pretty new phone, I don't like the things much and am notoriously bad at remembering to switch them on. I always carry it aound with me in case the car breaks down or something, though.

That's a phone?
What's it sitting on anyway ... your special type of scrying spheres?

That's a phone?
What's it sitting on anyway ... your special type of scrying spheres?

I had them pegged for whiffle balls...

Hmm...Perhaps some implants he doesn't know about? Of the...bionic persuasion?

Ah, could be. I know i've stuck springie thingies in weird places before.
:p

I had them pegged for whiffle balls...

Could be. I could see WYTYG as having her own romper room. :p

...

Why would I have metal springs?

I was seriously knocked unconscious. If it hadn't been for a friend being with me(who got some serious headaches from that bloody relay station) I may have died.

Or at least awoken with a headache to rival the worst hangovers of history.

'Course, it could have been the sheer strength of this particular relay station that did it...

I'm not about to waste money on a phone I'll never use.

And yes, when spammers call and YOU have to pay for the call, that's as wasteful as it gets.

...

Why would I have metal springs?

I was seriously knocked unconscious. If it hadn't been for a friend being with me(who got some serious headaches from that bloody relay station) I may have died.

Or at least awoken with a headache to rival the worst hangovers of history.

'Course, it could have been the sheer strength of this particular relay station that did it...

You're prolly just weird. Or epileptic-ish.


...Unless you guys did something stupid like hopping some fences?

No, and I never want one. I'm not keen on radio waves being beamed from the cellphone right next to my ear. (They're dangerous. Ever been near a relay station? ....)

The key is dose. The amount of actual energy produced by a cellphone transmitter is really tiny compared to a station of any sort. Never mind that one is already being bombarded with all sorts of radio and other electromagnetic energy (human made or otherwise) as it is anyway, all with no permanent brain damageAMAGEamageAMAGE!@#!@#$%*$&^^$&^CARRIER LOST

Cell phones are evil and completely unnecessary. I do not get the love affair with them at all.

You're prolly just weird. Or epileptic-ish.


...Unless you guys did something stupid like hopping some fences?

There were no fences...it was just high up on top of a mountain we were climbing.

...

There were warning signs all over the place that we stupidly ignored...


The key is dose. The amount of actual energy produced by a cellphone transmitter is really tiny compared to a station of any sort. Never mind that one is already being bombarded with all sorts of radio and other electromagnetic energy (human made or otherwise) as it is anyway, all with no permanent brain damageAMAGEamageAMAGE!@#!@#$%*$&^^$&^CARRIER LOST
It's the dosage over time that would concern me.

But even if that weren't the case, I don't need one anyway.

Yes I do.

Rarely use it, and my old one was more durable in my opinion.


It could kill a man at fifty paces.:cool:

I have an electronic leash. Mostly I try to ignore it, but occasionally, it's been useful. A couple of times I've forgotten my camera and used the phone for pictures - the quality isn't as good as the camera, but it does the job.

Due to the high cost of fixed phone service contracts (3 times higher than mobiles), it's only reasonable that we all have mobiles in Belgium.

http://www.sonyericsson.com/images/spgd/GPD_46300_26_0_4000.png

The SE K850i, with 5 MP camera and a tonne of other goodies (among them HSDPA, which is very nice). It isn't due to be released to the public for another month or two, so I get to feel all special for a little while because I got a review specimen that I can use for as long as I like. :)

No, I don't have one. I want to get a wifi phone eventually maybe...

Though I think it's more likely that I'll eventually get a pda with some sort of internet capabilities and use it to hack people's cell phones and change their ringtones on them. mwahaha

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Why would I have metal springs?

I was seriously knocked unconscious. If it hadn't been for a friend being with me(who got some serious headaches from that bloody relay station) I may have died.

Or at least awoken with a headache to rival the worst hangovers of history.

'Course, it could have been the sheer strength of this particular relay station that did it...


I call BS. Thats like saying you were knocked over and rendered unconcious cause someone shined a flashlight on you. So what, your friend has superpowers that renders him immune to killer radio waves but you were overcome and nearly killed? Did his tinfoil hat save him?

Now that is a relic! *applauds*
http://www.studip.uni-goettingen.de/pictures/smile/stars.gif
Hey! I had a much more relicy one until about a year ago.
But as you've discarded it since, it doesn't count anymore. :p

I neither have nor need one. I don't use phones away from work and see no reason why I should start.

I get a new one every 18 months on my contract. Atm I have one of these (http://www.purepc.pl/files/Image/aktualnosci_lipiec_2006/samsung_z400.jpg). It's modern enough for me to feel cool, and it's robust enough that when I sit on it/drop it, it doesn't break.

My girlfriend is buying always the lastest new models. She is changing models every 3 months, no kidding.

But, I have a 20 Euro gsm since 4 years now.:)

No, I have a mobile phone.