Monday, February 16, 2009
Technology Poll
You know, I really thought more people would have two or more cell phones.
I was also expecting snarky comments on my options. :)
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You know, I really thought more people would have two or more cell phones.
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February 16th, 2009 at 8:48 pm
You didn’t specify two or more live cell phones. Or whether cell phones that you pay for but that are used by members of your family count. Details, details. I might have more than anybody, though… there are currently 6 live cell phones and 4 disconnected cell phones residing in my home – and I pay for 3 of the 6 live ones.
February 16th, 2009 at 9:41 pm
Someone want to explain why there’s a need for more than one?
February 16th, 2009 at 10:12 pm
Michael has two. One for work, and one personal.
If you work tech, you do NOT want people (other than your boss of course) to have your personal cell phone number, but you need to be able to be reached when you’re out and about fixing things. And you don’t really want to carry around your work cell phone for personal things–it’s good to be able to turn it off when you aren’t needed.
Plus, his work cell phone doesn’t do cool geeky stuff.
And there are five phones on our plan, and I’m the one that pays all the bills, so in theory, that means I have five cell phones, right? No. :) All our old cell phones were donated to the phones for soldiers program. They even taken broken phones IIRC.
February 16th, 2009 at 10:56 pm
I didn’t own one until last year, and I mostly succumbed because I needed a new PDA.
February 16th, 2009 at 11:09 pm
Never having to pay for long distance is nice.
But not as nice as being able to txt instead of talk to people. :)
February 16th, 2009 at 11:35 pm
I have one personal (that I use for work and submit on an expense report). I have one work phone paid by work that I don’t use and need to disconnect. I have one test phone for work that we use to test roaming rating and data down here on our network. Then the sons and the hub each have a phone. Among us, we have Verizon, Sprint and AT&T Wireless, so someone almost always has coverage in any given spot.
February 17th, 2009 at 10:40 am
When I finally get a real job I will get a cell phone. I’ve got a friend who has a couple spares lying around (including a blackberry) after he upgraded, I’m hoping I can talk him out of one and then just choose a provider!
Until then, people will have to deal with not knowing where I am! ;-)
February 17th, 2009 at 10:57 am
I would have to change my answer then. I voted to or more, but misread the poll. I just read how many phones do you have, in which case I have my cell and there’s the house line.
February 17th, 2009 at 1:40 pm
I’ve got one, wife has two (work and personal), and my son has one.
If I didn’t need fax capability, I get rid of the landline.
We got the kid a phone after long deliberation. It’s one of my old phones (a Kyocera slider, with little tiny keys and screen that I can’t read), so it didn’t cost me anything – including activation, our plan allowed us to add a third phone for no additional fee. He’s not allowed to carry it all the time, but when we’re in town or at the store, he likes to go off on his own (he’s 12 and is embarrassed to be seen with his parents) and the phones allows me a degree of peace of mind. If he goes down to the park to snowboard with his friends – I can stay in contact with him and he’s got a way to call for help if dangerous wildlife or people show up. It’s also good for after school events and such. He can only call me or Becky on it – and a couple of emergency contact numbers.
I love my cell phone, voice commands and bluetooth earpiece are perfect for me. See I hate talking on the phone, hate being wired to a conversation – the cell and BT earpiece allow me to keep working while talking to people.
February 17th, 2009 at 4:12 pm
I keep thinking I should try out a bluetooth ear piece. I hate holding the phone to my ear. Ugh. However, I’ve noticed I’m having a harder and harder time hearing when I’m on the phone, so I don’t want to spent money on something that is going to only exacerbate the problem.
February 17th, 2009 at 7:13 pm
Hmmmm. Work vs. personal makes sense.
But I also know of teenagers who have two or more personal phones, and all their friends know all their numbers. That makes no sense to me at all.
February 17th, 2009 at 9:10 pm
One for texting one for talking?
I’m just making that up as I go along.
February 18th, 2009 at 12:03 am
I got my first cell phone, a pay-as-you-go (phone was free, put in $20 every two months, I think, and I never used all the minutes) when my mom was in the hospital for a month before she died, so that my father could contact me at any time — mostly to come pick me up to visit her — when I was on dial-up internet, and he couldn’t call on the land line. After she died, he called me every day (which I loved) until he died 2-1/2 years later, and I didn’t have to stay off the internet until after he called (nor more expensive internet service, which I didn’t want back then). It suited my needs.
I use my current phone for both work and personal use. Actually I don’t get a lot of calls for either (which is fine with me, I don’t like to talk on the phone much, except for my weekly call with my daughter, usually a couple of hours, go figure), but I like having the necessary departments at work be able to contact me, anywhere. Well, anywhere they I have reception. That’s the big problem with this (and my former 2 phones). Lousy reception in my apartment, and in my lab.
I’ve never used a bluetooth earpiece, but both the original earbud headset and a replacement in-ear-canal headset came with a microphone so I could make hands-free phone calls with the phone in my pocket. I loved that, other than the fact that I was one more person who appeared to be talking to myself. (Crazy person? Or just cell phone user?) But I’m pretty hard on the wires (flying around my lab and catching them on things), as I was with iPods, and neither lasted very long. After burning through two hideous headband sets, I recently bought another in-canal set that I love and seems sturdier (fabric covered wires rather than plastic), but, like the headbands, it has no on-the-wires microphone. A compromise. Back to holding the phone to the ear.