i dont have an iphone..

[Mattemma]

I don't have one,but dh does. I am always calling it an Ipod.He loves it. In fact he wants the new one and wants to give me his old one. No thanks.

I have an old ...samsung...I think.Rooster ringtone and shows the time-that is all I need. Dh pays an extra $30 a month a month for net stuff for his phone.Waste imo,but it is what he wants.

 

[MoSo]

We both have cell phones, mine has a few bells and whistles (Verizon LG Versa) and his is very plain (my old Samsung, probably 8 years old). No iphone for us because AT&T is terrible as a carrier here (and ont he west coast in general) and the first thing a cell phone has to be is a PHONE - my son and best friend have iphones, and they drop calls all the time. I admit that all of the gadgety things that the iphone can do look amusing.

If I lived in a large city an iphone would be far more useful - when my best friend and I went to Chicago for a meeting, the iphone was very useful for looking up transit schedules, getting maps and directions, finding out museum hours and rates, getting restaurant reviews, scheduling an airport shuttle, etc etc.

The main use of a cell phone here is when we do our weekly shopping trip to town, we can take our separate lists and split up yet still stay in touch and meet up. Very handy, that. Likewise for traveling I like having a cell for safety reasons. My car has one of those hands-free bluetooth thingies so I can do the (infrequent) phone call while driving - I don't like the distraction while driving, but it's very handy for confirming appts, setting etas and other very quick uses.

My 25 yo son also sends me text messages and pictures, and I appreciate getting something from him so frequently, especially now that he lives so far away and I don't see him very often.

Other-gadget-wise, I have a desktop, a full-size laptop and a netbook (which is dying and about to be replaced with an ipad). A GPS unit, which I've come to appreciate after first thinking they weren't very useful. An ipod and a nano and noise-canceling headphones for travel. Digital cameras, of the "point and shoot" variety. Oh, and my other favorite gadget, the Amazon Kindle. I've had one since they came out, have probably 500 books on it (or available to it on my PC). About half the books were free (older, out-of-copyright) and I LOVE the thing. I have an eye problem and my vision gets worse as the day goes on - no problem, just hit the "increase font" key until I can read comfortably again! Love, love, love it, although it would be nice to have one a little larger and that displayed magazines better.

 

[cmjust0]

I have a cheapo NET10 prepay phone. It's an LG 300G bar phone. Literally, the cheapest phone I could buy. Makes calls, though, and seems to almost never need recharging.

I'm thinking of switching carriers, though...to Common Cents prepaid mobile.

NET10's $0.10/min vs. CC's $0.07/min, and CC rounds down minutes. I like prepaid phones because I don't like the idea of having to fret over a stupid phone..

Case in point...I dropped my last prepaid phone in a grocery store parking lot and some random guy picked it up.. Instead of walking it 20' back into the store and leaving it with the service desk in there...or calling the contact called "!Home"...he decided to take the phone with him.. He called my friend Ed at like 11pm, then called my dad and woke him up. He called my work the next morning.

Never called "!Home", though.

I felt like the guy was up to something -- nobody's that dense, right? -- but the phone only had like an hour of talk time left, so he could really only get me for like $6 and the phone itself...which was free, since it cost $30 but came with 300 minutes.

Long story short, I went and "bought" a new phone ($30, but it also came with 300 minutes...so I really just bought minutes and got a free phone again) and switched the number and remaining minutes from the old phone to the new phone, which immediately disabled the old phone.

I did end up getting it back by agreeing to meet the guy's girlfriend at the store where I'd originally lost the phone...like, three days after my phone was lost. Just as I was about to hang up, I was like "Ok, I'll see her there at 7.. Oh, hey, but if I'm not there she can just leave it at the service counter OKTHANKSBYE."

At 7:15...after sitting in the parking lot for like 20 minutes, watching people come and go...I found that she'd actually left my phone at the service counter.