mobilphone - or human remotecontrol?

[Ruben A]

I´m getting more and more nuts to see how people stand on streets just looking on their mobilphone - fingering the buttoms fast, trying to read/send a sms.. up to many times... some of them even tries to move at the same time?! It´s so classic! Everywhere you look - your eye will catch a person looking on the mobilphone.
THat´s sick!! I wish we could try the days back then without mobilphones!! That was life.

yes, I do have a mobilphone (Ericsson T18s) - but it stands in this charger at home because of a crashed battery.. and I really don´t want to go around with it. Though I use it when I have to meet up with friends in the city or night.
SMS´ing; not much.. mostly reply the SMS´s I get.

What model do you have - how much does it mean to you?
Are you talking much in the "thing" and do you perform professional "sms"´ing??? :illin:

[pille'ocheoni]

im in debt, cus i didnt pay my bill 2 yrs ago, i have house phone now

[Atarythm]

Well, 4 years ago I was a total anti-mobilphone as I really don't needed one... But I'm now since 4 years far away from my family and my friends and this little beasts helped me a lot to keep the contact and I don't think I could now live without one (oh shit, I'm addicted... :) )... I'm more a "professional sms'er" to use the words of Ruben ;) ...

[karitek]

when i was in england, i was a total mobile phone junkie (had the great sony phone - dont know the model number, but i love that phone!!)

but now, i leave it at home quite frequently and dont even care. i like that freedom of not being able to be always contactable.

i think that the worst part about mobile phones is the fact that i dont remember any phone numbers by heart anymore :(

[Sheridan]

what is sms?
is that like text messaging?

I don't have a cell phone as we call them in the states. but I am planning on picking one up for my birthday in a few weeks. I too, like karitek, like being not readilly available. but that is why I only plan to give me number to certain people. and plus you don't have to answer it all the time. and I look at it like this, I have a hard time remembering peoples phone number nowadays anyway. why not just free up some space. also I am looking at getting this really nice nextel phone with voice activated calling so I wont spend all my time glaring at some small screen and paging for numbers.

[aleks]

i am proud to say that i never owned one...and won´t own one. why do you need one? i never needed one before all that mobile madness came up and i don´t need one now...when people what to call me and i am not at home, well, bad luck! the only thing a mobile is good for is saving the telephonenumber of chicks you meet...it happened three times that i didn´t have anything to write and the girl seither, so i had to let them go...a mobile would have saved me some hours of pleasure i reckon, too bad :(

[Lady E]

i love my mobile and would be lost without it - it means i can divert my office phone to my mobile and not miss phone calls if im not at work or have to travel or do meetings - its important as im running the business on my own for the day to day stuff

also i find its really useful for saftey being a woman - like if im coming home on my own late at night i can call someone to tell them what im doing and if i feel unsafe i can talk to them whilst walking , being on the train etc. or if im stranded somewhere i can ring up.

another thing - in the Uk it wasnt / isnt the case that 100% of homes have landlines. the cheap availability of mobile phones means that many people who the tepelphone companies wouldnt deem eligible to have a landline can have a telephone. its a communication revolution

of course there are massive downsides to this, and i find text messaging increasingly tedious but its bloody great for flirting! like most effective technology i cant remember how i managed before having one.

[owain_k]

Well, i used to hate mobiles with a passion....until i bought one !

It is very useful at times but also an unnecessary intrusion at others....text has certainly made life easier.

I must say it does annoy me when i go out to eat with friends or family and they don't get switched off as it kinda inhabits ppls attention from both eating and conversing.........grrrrr

[Lady E]

yes phones should be off in restaurants. there is etiquette with them like anything else.

[aleks]

i once saw on tv that in japan they have text messages cafes, teen girls sitting at a table and writing text messages to each other...ill communication, huh? crazy japanese people...

[tsr_tomas]

i know you gonna love it when the mobilphone get Digital camera as standard in the future ;)

i do know what you are talking about. i hate the 20min with train to stockholm city. always lot´s of people playing games with SOUND ON. damn, i want to stab people like that sometimes.

cheers
tomas

ps. love you !

[Daddys Girl]

I've got a nokia 3310 (which I'm about to upgrade in a few days for either a Samsung or Motorolla) - I also have a blue Motorolla V100 communicator - looks like a mini organiser - don't ask me why I got it, but I did....

Definately with Emma on this one - mobiles should be off or at least on silent in restaurants etc - I feel terrible when I'm out with friends and my phone goes off in the middle of a meal/drink (if I've forgotten to put it silent...:) )

I've had mobile phone(s) since I was 14 - my dad decided I should have one for safety and emergency situations (providing I didn't pull it out in public for someone to jack if off me on the way home from school).

Call me a techno-retard if you wish, but I actually don't see the point in having a phone that has a video camera in it - picture phones I can kinda understand, but why would you want a mobile video phone? In order for it to have a point, dont you actually need another person to have the same model of phone so if you want to use the gadget, you can? I don't think they look very nice either - there pretty big to me - there's a girl at my University who has one, and it just looks silly....

D_G ;o)

[tsr_tomas]

i want to upgrade my nokia to a motorolla Flear.. it´s not only a mobilphone. it´s also an Weapon !

[jukka]

i used to have a one mobile phone.....and it got more and more on my nerves....then it started to make fakes...and i crashed it !

i won't buy another one....it is just good in some situations.

[The Janitor]

i got a sony phone. so far it's been cool.
i ile the ones with cameras though.
my bro st tom as we call him bought one in just the other day...
it rocks.

[Basic 2: The Revenge]

I don't believe I've ever bought one, but the ones I did have I lost. The girlfriend bought me a new one last year and so far so good. I never have any credit though.....

[Sheridan]

random cell phone story:

a friend of mine at school in florida had a cell phone and he had this rule where everytime his phone dopped a call, he'd drop the phone. so subsquently his phone was all hammered up. cracked screen, tape keeping it together. I watched him throw it off a roof in miami when it dropped a call. so anyway he finally gets a new cell phone and what happens? the first day he has it he accidentally drops it and cracks the screen. I laughed my ass off for so long when that happened.