OT: Am I the only one who doesn’t have a cell phone?

[Scarlett]

[quote=UCGal]Ox – I’m not quite as luddite as you – but close. I have a cell – but it’s dumb… it does calls and txts – but no surfing, email, etc. Only a small circle of people have the #.

My thinking is like Ox’s… I don’t need to be that connected. There are places the phone should NOT reach you. (Pet peeve of mine – cell phone use in public (or private) restrooms.)

It’s convenient, though, to be able to call up the hubster while at the grocery store and confirm that we need more milk, or if we have enough…
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I am the same way – I don’t care about texting – so my cell phone is well, only for phone calls. No email or web surfing. Only my family and people who I know wouldn’t call just to chat have my number.

It’s very useful in the stores, especially the grocery store as you mentioned, checking with your spouse about various things and sizes etc. I also find very useful for coordinating a meeting point and time when one party is out doing stuff that doesn’t know for sure how long it will take. Or if you are stuck in traffic, or delayed for other reasons – to let other people you are supposed to meet know.

When you have kids, you do want to be able to be reached at any time in an emergency by the school teachers. Also useful if you get stranded somewhere, an accident or something, where you may not be able to reach easily somebody with a phone.

[briansd1]

i have a surveillance system at my property. I’m able to view the cameras remotely on my smart phone. pretty cool.

[quote=flu]
If you really want to track the car, you just tap into the car’s Onstar, BMW assist, Mercedes SOS, (insert your favorite car tracking system here)…

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Too difficult for a housewife to do. Easier for her to just sign up for the tracking plan with the cell phone carrier.

[briansd1]

i have a surveillance system at my property. I’m able to view the cameras remotely on my smart phone. pretty cool.

[quote=flu]
If you really want to track the car, you just tap into the car’s Onstar, BMW assist, Mercedes SOS, (insert your favorite car tracking system here)…

[/quote]

Too difficult for a housewife to do. Easier for her to just sign up for the tracking plan with the cell phone carrier.

[briansd1]

i have a surveillance system at my property. I’m able to view the cameras remotely on my smart phone. pretty cool.

[quote=flu]
If you really want to track the car, you just tap into the car’s Onstar, BMW assist, Mercedes SOS, (insert your favorite car tracking system here)…

[/quote]

Too difficult for a housewife to do. Easier for her to just sign up for the tracking plan with the cell phone carrier.

[briansd1]

i have a surveillance system at my property. I’m able to view the cameras remotely on my smart phone. pretty cool.

[quote=flu]
If you really want to track the car, you just tap into the car’s Onstar, BMW assist, Mercedes SOS, (insert your favorite car tracking system here)…

[/quote]

Too difficult for a housewife to do. Easier for her to just sign up for the tracking plan with the cell phone carrier.

[briansd1]

i have a surveillance system at my property. I’m able to view the cameras remotely on my smart phone. pretty cool.

[quote=flu]
If you really want to track the car, you just tap into the car’s Onstar, BMW assist, Mercedes SOS, (insert your favorite car tracking system here)…

[/quote]

Too difficult for a housewife to do. Easier for her to just sign up for the tracking plan with the cell phone carrier.

[Ren]

[quote=sdcellar]Eh? Starbucks wi-fi used to cost, then it was free for AT&T customers, then it was free for everybody and now they’re actually spending money to attract people to use it. Hotels have always been hit or miss.

Don’t get me wrong, I still have my cell phone, but free wi-fi is hardly going the way of the dodo. At least, not yet.[/quote]

Then you’re a lot luckier than I am. As recently as a year ago (before I broke down and got a cellular modem), I was able to find free wi-fi about 10% of the time when looking for it, which was far less than a few years before that.

Anyway that’s good news, although I’d rather not be tied to one particular chain restaurant for my Internet needs 🙂

[Ren]

[quote=sdcellar]Eh? Starbucks wi-fi used to cost, then it was free for AT&T customers, then it was free for everybody and now they’re actually spending money to attract people to use it. Hotels have always been hit or miss.

Don’t get me wrong, I still have my cell phone, but free wi-fi is hardly going the way of the dodo. At least, not yet.[/quote]

Then you’re a lot luckier than I am. As recently as a year ago (before I broke down and got a cellular modem), I was able to find free wi-fi about 10% of the time when looking for it, which was far less than a few years before that.

Anyway that’s good news, although I’d rather not be tied to one particular chain restaurant for my Internet needs 🙂

[Ren]

[quote=sdcellar]Eh? Starbucks wi-fi used to cost, then it was free for AT&T customers, then it was free for everybody and now they’re actually spending money to attract people to use it. Hotels have always been hit or miss.

Don’t get me wrong, I still have my cell phone, but free wi-fi is hardly going the way of the dodo. At least, not yet.[/quote]

Then you’re a lot luckier than I am. As recently as a year ago (before I broke down and got a cellular modem), I was able to find free wi-fi about 10% of the time when looking for it, which was far less than a few years before that.

Anyway that’s good news, although I’d rather not be tied to one particular chain restaurant for my Internet needs 🙂

[Ren]

[quote=sdcellar]Eh? Starbucks wi-fi used to cost, then it was free for AT&T customers, then it was free for everybody and now they’re actually spending money to attract people to use it. Hotels have always been hit or miss.

Don’t get me wrong, I still have my cell phone, but free wi-fi is hardly going the way of the dodo. At least, not yet.[/quote]

Then you’re a lot luckier than I am. As recently as a year ago (before I broke down and got a cellular modem), I was able to find free wi-fi about 10% of the time when looking for it, which was far less than a few years before that.

Anyway that’s good news, although I’d rather not be tied to one particular chain restaurant for my Internet needs 🙂

[Ren]

[quote=sdcellar]Eh? Starbucks wi-fi used to cost, then it was free for AT&T customers, then it was free for everybody and now they’re actually spending money to attract people to use it. Hotels have always been hit or miss.

Don’t get me wrong, I still have my cell phone, but free wi-fi is hardly going the way of the dodo. At least, not yet.[/quote]

Then you’re a lot luckier than I am. As recently as a year ago (before I broke down and got a cellular modem), I was able to find free wi-fi about 10% of the time when looking for it, which was far less than a few years before that.

Anyway that’s good news, although I’d rather not be tied to one particular chain restaurant for my Internet needs 🙂

[Coronita]

Most of you folks suck. You aren’t helping me out financially. Go buy a nice android smartphone today, because you deserve to have one. Or get yourself a nice android based tablet…. like the Samsung Galaxy Tab…

http://galaxytab.samsungmobile.com/

Ok…Truth is that for my person phone, I only have a voice plan…And I’ve disabled receiving/sending SMS on my personal plan… I’m too cheap to get a personal web access plan…However, I deal with the data crap for work/biz all the time….

On the extreme side, where I go with my backpack, I have 4 phones, one for each carrier….So I never have an issue with a dropped call 🙁

[Coronita]

Most of you folks suck. You aren’t helping me out financially. Go buy a nice android smartphone today, because you deserve to have one. Or get yourself a nice android based tablet…. like the Samsung Galaxy Tab…

http://galaxytab.samsungmobile.com/

Ok…Truth is that for my person phone, I only have a voice plan…And I’ve disabled receiving/sending SMS on my personal plan… I’m too cheap to get a personal web access plan…However, I deal with the data crap for work/biz all the time….

On the extreme side, where I go with my backpack, I have 4 phones, one for each carrier….So I never have an issue with a dropped call 🙁

[Coronita]

Most of you folks suck. You aren’t helping me out financially. Go buy a nice android smartphone today, because you deserve to have one. Or get yourself a nice android based tablet…. like the Samsung Galaxy Tab…

http://galaxytab.samsungmobile.com/

Ok…Truth is that for my person phone, I only have a voice plan…And I’ve disabled receiving/sending SMS on my personal plan… I’m too cheap to get a personal web access plan…However, I deal with the data crap for work/biz all the time….

On the extreme side, where I go with my backpack, I have 4 phones, one for each carrier….So I never have an issue with a dropped call 🙁

[Coronita]

Most of you folks suck. You aren’t helping me out financially. Go buy a nice android smartphone today, because you deserve to have one. Or get yourself a nice android based tablet…. like the Samsung Galaxy Tab…

http://galaxytab.samsungmobile.com/

Ok…Truth is that for my person phone, I only have a voice plan…And I’ve disabled receiving/sending SMS on my personal plan… I’m too cheap to get a personal web access plan…However, I deal with the data crap for work/biz all the time….

On the extreme side, where I go with my backpack, I have 4 phones, one for each carrier….So I never have an issue with a dropped call 🙁

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