Tell us about your cell phone

[Ayan]

What cell phone do you currently have? I have the Razr2 and I just realized the pictures on that phone are pretty awesome, I just printed some of them and the quality of them are amazing!

[AKmaro1]

For my cell phone I use a pre-paid service Tracfone, and have a Razr style phone as well, it's a Moto W370. It's pretty good, but lacks some higher end stuff being that it's pre-paid and they neuter these phones somewhat. But I'm very happy with the service, I get nationwide coverage plus into Canada as well for approx. $7 per month. I don't use it that often, so I can't see spending $50 per month for a "regular" phone when this works just as well.

[moviemom]

I have a Moto RAZR V3R. It works ok I suppose, nothing fancy. We don't get good reception out in the country, but it does fine in town. I place the blame for that on my carrier, not my phone. The pics aren't the best in the world so I guess the best thing I like about my phone is the color. It is a bright fiery red!

[oldmoviebuff]

I am old school, I guess, as I don't carry a cell phone and don't plan on it. I just plain don't want to be that connected all the time. Maybe it's my age or maybe it's just my personality, I don't know.

[moo6]

Blackberry for work and personal use, we are on a shared plan for the entire company so minutes are not an issue. I like the email on the go and its the only phone I know that has kept service through nasty storms before.

[Tyrfingr]

Cellphone. Another of my observations of social and mental declination.

It is a rectangular piece of plastiqe filled with microelectronical components, which emits highfrequent micropulses. Originally the idea was intended to be used primarily for business people in situations of dire needs; such as gathering vital information to attend an important gathering of sorts, or sharing information while on the move, and/or other emergency calls like 911.

Like any good ideas, the corporate swine grossly disfigured and overexaggerated the mobile phone into a trinket of toy for the common man. In recent years irrationality has completely overtaken the populus with the introduction of text messages that can be relayed to people when their saliva has dried out, or when someone feels the urge of sharing their immidiate thoughts to someone. Gone are the days when people got together to discuss issues of worth. Instead it has passed on to anxiously awaiting an incoming call to discern how well-modulated the voices through their newly aquired cellphone is, and then spending a portion of time adjusting volume and equilizer to maximise the audible comfort.

When simply stating the fact to a phonemasturbator that "It's just a fuc***g phone". The respons usually omits bewilderment in the recipient for a full minute of grunting sounds, as arguments for his new toy is slowly taking form in the rational part of the brain, failure is naturally imminent since no logic can defend the product with all it's cheap useless gimmics. Instead, and slowly the mouth of the person blurts out the quickly summarization of defense/offense-attack. That your oppinion are more in the line of belonging to a retired old fart with no notion of modern technology, and that you have completely lost grip with progress... And suddenly you realize the only reasonable answer to frequently using a cellphone with a hip new scale and recently downloaded and personilized ring tone, that you can switch off annoying people at will.

[Stubblecat]

I'm with you there. I gots me a cheap-ass Virgin pay-as-you-go thingie. It has my home number and my wife's cell number as the only two contacts. If it rings, it's either my wife or my kids.
I put about 20 bucks a month on it at the most.

If you were to ask me to text you something, I could probably do it, but I'd most likely get annoyed and just call you on a land line and tell you whatever the hell I need to say.

[Binkleywalker]

I never got the notion that adding a texting feature to a phone was a good idea. I kinda understood a camera. Anyway, same deal here. Got a prepaid thing with T-Mobile where I add minutes if I need them - renew the plan once a year otherwise. I think I'm at the point now after a couple years where I either need a new battery or a new phone, but otherwise I'm quite satisfied going prepaid.

I'm lazy and didn't want another monthly bill.

[filmfanatic]

I use Net10 prepaid. My phone is used mainly for emergencies. My calls are a flat 10 cents a minute from anywhere to anywhere and I put about $15 per month on the phone.

[Stubblecat]

I'd lay even money that those of you who are like me and only use their cell occasionally are in their mid-30s.

It's funny how the Generation X / Generation Y split is so evident. It wasn't even gradual, like it was decades ago. Either you grew up always having a microwave, a push-button phone and a home computer (with internet) or you didn't.