Do you need your Cell phone ?

[Case]

I use my phone for everything. Calls, texts, music, alarm clock, calorie counter, kitchen timer, price checker, to do list... I could still do without it quite easily.

It really is like the Swiss Army knife of modern electronics. Soon, it'll be able to change a baby's diapers and drive us to work. lol

 

[Solivagant]

I got my first smartphone in 2014, so I could communicate with one person. I use some of the other features moderately. I'm still learning about all the things I can do with it. Before that I alternated between intervals of having no cell phone and having a basic phone with a prepaid plan solely for emergencies, when I could afford it. I had no one to talk to so my usage was rare in terms of talk and text, but I often used the alarm, camera, notes, voice memo, and etc.

Before my smartphone, my favorite was the LG VX8600 I got in 2007.

It was slim and well-formatted and did everything I wanted exactly as I wanted it, and it even had a quality camera. Then smartphones came into popular use and other phones were dumbed down. Basic phones today fall far short of that level of usability, and I'm finding that more and more things are requiring the use of a smartphone.

 

[Lacrecia]

When i moved back to town i never bothered to get a phone. About a year later, on changing jobs my new employer required me to have a phone, so i went to have one hooked up in the house. The phone company was pretty weird about it, like they thought i was trying to pull a fast one on them because i had no previous number to give them for that time. I didn't realize that some seem to consider it unusual not to have a phone at all.

I was at a small gathering the other week and of the seven of us gathered around the table, four were absorbed in face book or playing candy crush on their phone oblivious to the presence of the rest of us. For the first time i saw some value in cell phones. I may have to check into one of those critters

When you get a cell phone, will you give me the number so thàt i can harrass you?

 

[AmytheTemperamental]

I only really use mine when the internet goes out. Lol

 

[lonelyfairy]

Phone is important to me, not for social media though since not using it almost at all but I use my phone for others things as email, calendar, taking photos, listening music and some other helpful apps.

But I'm not one of those people who are 24/7 staring their phones like zombies, lol. I want to enjoy the present moment, so even phone is important to me, it's not something which I use all the time, maybe once in a day.

 

[blackdot]

I have never figured out what cell phones/smart phones are used for.
And I work for Verizon.