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Who here has yet to jump on the smartphone bandwagon?

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Paying for a data plan really rubs me the wrong way.

And my iPod Touch does 80 percent of what I'd use a smart phone for anyway. The only obvious place it fails is when there isn't Wi Fi. Which is becoming increasingly less common.
 
I was on (got an iPhone on launch day) and leaped back off (currently sporting a Motorola Karma... yeah, you're going to have to look that up).
 
I'm living on the edge, European style

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I have a flip cell phone, but only because the hospital requires that I carry it for when I'm on emergency call.

If the calling number isn't my workplace, I usually don't pick it up.
If I'm in my car, the cell phone is ignored until I'm out of the car.
If I'm in public, I try to find at least a semi-private spot so that I'm not "That Annoying Dick Talking On His Cell Phone In Public."


I hate cell phones, smart phones, etc. If I could go back in time and halt the progress of portable cellular communication technology to the year of 1982 (i.e. large, corded brickish car phones), I'd probably do so.
 
I was asked to set up a BES server by the CEO of my company, who had invested in RIM when they were just starting to get big. Anyway, I carried a Blackberry (electronic leash) for six years. So, no thanks... just give me a real nice dumb phone. Too bad docomo phones don't have english menus...
 
I think I am like one of 2 of my friends without a smart phone. Pretty much all my friends who have needed a new phone recently has gotten one, even though they are on computers all day and don't really use the internet on their phones.
 
I resisted for a long time and only got a smartphone because my work issued one. Once you have music, email, and a map application with GPS you'll never go back. Everything else is gravy.
 
At one point in time I thought having a phone wasn't needed. I lived for two years using my friends' phones. People would get calls for me on their phone's.

Then I got a phone and thought, "Wow ... how did I ever live without it."

When smart phones came out I thought they weren't needed as well. I thought data plans were too pricey. I thought internet on one's phone was extravagent.

Then I got a smart phone and it changed my life. Even things like the Yelp application has been fantastic when out of my area. Traffic. GPS. Weather. News. My emails never been cleaner. ETC ETC ETC.

They really are amazing.
 
I have this (the original Samsung Instinct), it is technically a smartphone cause it has email and GPS..but damn it feels old as fuck and typing texts on that beatup touchscreen is like pulling teeth.

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I havnt bought a new phone in 5 years. This was given to me by my friends sister who upgraded to the Palm Pre at the time. My contracts been up for over two years, Im ready
and now able
to get a newfangled smartphone, I hope Sprint gets the Galaxy S II, I wants it.
 
I'm waiting for the Motorola Triumph. The 5-way D-pad on my Samsung Intensity is lousy and I want a touchscreen with a good calendar function. I can't wait to escape from Verizon.
 
Still using a Razr. I am so careless with things like phones that I could never justify spending several hundred dollars on one.

I'm waiting for iPhone 17, when they can just put a chip in me.
 
I'm about to jump off the band wagon. I have the iPhone 4 and while its cool, I don't really use all the shit that much. The only thing I would miss would be the maps/gps and Hanging with Friends. But I could easily cut my bill in half by getting rid of it.
 
Me! I had a little flip-jobbie for over four years, and only now that it finally crapped out have I upgraded to a slide phone with a keypad. It still doesn't do much beyond call and text though.

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Im still using the freebie phone that comes with your plan each year or so.

I'm content to use my computer for internet and crap like that. No need to pay more $$$ for that luxury.
 
YuriLowell said:
Once you get a smartphone there is no going back.

You cant live without it.
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I disagree. I could live just fine going back to my SLVR.

Edit: I was actually debating going to the Motorola FONE F3 before I bought my iPhone.

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Great battery life, slim profile.
 
I haven't yet, but I have an iPod touch and love the apps. I'm also probably going to switch to Sprint in the next few months so I can get rid of my wireless broadband card and et grandfathered in on unlimited data, because I'm guessing it'll go away eventually.. If it wasn't for that, I probably wouldn't upgrade to a smartphone. They rape you on data charges.
 
omg.kittens said:
If data plans were cheaper, I'd be all over it. In the mean time, talk + text is good enough for me.
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Pretty much this for now. Spending $75 - $100 a month for a cell phone is a tough pill to swallow imo.
 
Rocking my ghetto Sony Ericsson K750i

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It's covered with battled scars, camera no longer works and phone memory backlogged with 100s of text messages I'm too sentimental to delete.

Wouldn't mind a smartphone, but have an office BlackBerry, and in a foreign country so no way am I getting into a phone contract.

Denial is the greatest pleasure...
 
was on then jumped off because my blackberry 8220 battery died (along with the phone being a total POS)

Gunna jump back on when my contract expires and i can find a nice cheap QWERTY android phone.
 
Still stuck on a Samsung Knack for a good while after using something even more primitive----really don't know when I'll arrive at the world of smartphones.

At the very least, MAYBE it'll have settled down a tad by the end of next year or the year after---or if not I'll marvel at the kind of ridiculous progress the lot of it will have made by then.
 
... Can I be a bit snobby?
It annoys me when people buy expensive smart phones and their accompanying contracts - when they can't even afford to pay household bills or have a job to cover the costs of buying the handsets.

I know someone who triumphantly exclaimed that he hasn't even been able to pay off the cost of his iPhone 4 and there will be a new one on the horizon soon (that he covets)...
Is it wrong to jump on the smartphone bandwagon if you can't afford it?
 
Sir Garbageman said:
Pretty much this for now. Spending $75 - $100 a month for a cell phone is a tough pill to swallow imo.
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T-Mobile offers $10 data plans. Sure it's only 200MB, but it's cheap.

Sprint gives you 450 anytime, unlimited any mobile to mobile minutes, unlimited text, and unlimited data for $70.
 
I have a smartphone, but might as well not have one. I don't have a data plan and outside of calling, texting and listening to podcasts on the way to work, I do nothing with it.
 
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Samsung Droid Charge. I got it last week as my first smartphone (I was waiting for the Samsung Galaxy S II but Verizon put an end to that plan) and love it so far.

The price of the data plan is offset a bit by the fact that I don't need a texting plan anymore (Google Voice!)
 
FINE-LINE said:
Untill data plans get cheaper/reasonable, I'm not hopping on.
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yeah, the main reason i got my first cellphone (which was a smartphone [HTC Titan/Sprint Mogul yea boyeee]) was because of the $30 SERO plan. i didn't feel bad at all when upgrading to SERO Premium to get an Epic 4G either.
 
YuriLowell said:
Once you get a smartphone there is no going back.

You cant live without it.
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I can live better with more of my money staying with me.
have a LG dare and plan on keeping it until it die, then I'm not sure what happens.
 
I really wanna hop off the smartphone bandwagon, my android 4g has such a terrible battery, it barely lasts me through the work day and would def not if i didn't charge it in the morning in the car.

A simple blackberry or sliding keyboard phone would make me perfectly happy

although i would probably have WordFeud withdrawals
 
I'm still on a EnV3 or something like that. No data plan. Just use it to talk and text.

I will never buy a smart phone as long as I am forced to pay for data. If I could just buy an iPhone and use wifi for data and have a normal talk plan...I'd do it.
 
Gamecocks625 said:
I'm still on a EnV3 or something like that. No data plan. Just use it to talk and text.

I will never buy a smart phone as long as I am forced to pay for data. If I could just buy an iPhone and use wifi for data and have a normal talk plan...I'd do it.
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Well, the data requirement is for getting your phone aubsidized in most cases. You can buy a smartphone and no data plan, you just won't get a discount.
 
I still have an old flip-phone but my resolve is weakening; only problem is whether to get a blackberry or an iPhone. I already have an iPod touch so I can't see myself rationalizing why I need an iPhone over a Blackberry.
 
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made the switch 2 days ago

battered Nokia 6021 --->> Samsung Galaxy S II

uh yeah ... wow ... never spent more than a couple of minutes with most smartphones (except with my dad's terrible HTC Touch Pro...), had been eyeing Android phones for two years though, and finally decided to jump onboard with these new dual-core phones

it's incredibly fast in use, has a gorgeous screen and it's just such an incredibly versatile tool :

calendar, mail, navigation, internet, remote control, media/movie player (currently Handbrake'ing my 1080p mkv's lol), it has a decent camera/video function

and I'm pretty sure it's a better phone as well with the sync'ed address book and all :p
 
AbsoluteZero said:
I disagree. I could live just fine going back to my SLVR.

Edit: I was actually debating going to the Motorola FONE F3 before I bought my iPhone.

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Great battery life, slim profile.
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Amazing phone; a elegant cellphone from a more civilized age.
 
I'm rocking a Samsung GT-E1080i. Have been quite unlucky with my phones lately, so I'm not interested in purchasing an expensive one just yet.

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Guevara said:
Amazing phone; a elegant cellphone from a more civilized age.
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I owned that phone.


Biggest piece of shit known to mankind.


Such a piece of shit you made edit my post to add this line. I'm a little aggravated just remembering that shit.
 
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