Do you have a mobile phone?

[MarciKS]

i have a mobile phone. my very first smart phone. i keep it on dnd when i'm out. and i don't take loud calls announcing my life issues to the entire world around me either.

 

[GAlady]

I have been using iPhones for 13 years. I currently have an IPhone 13 that I purchased 4 years ago. Many newer models have come out, but this one works great.

I have hearing aids with bluetooth capacity. I use the app on my iPhone to fine tune them.

 

[MACKTEXAS]

Back when I did have a landline phone, I forwarded it to my cell phone when leaving the house. That way, if I was expecting an important call, I did not need to stay home to avoid missing it. I don't play on my phone. I use it for what a phone was intended for.

 

[PeppermintPatty]

Yes. We got rid of our land line years ago.
We had no use for it anymore.
We both have iPhones and wouldn’t change them for anything.

 

[Rossana]

Yes, I do have a cell phone. We opted out the landline in 2004, like Ronni did.
At first, we had iPhones but decided to switch to android Samsung phones instead. They last longer. (I had problems with my iPhone batteries.)
My phone is a Samsung flip Z6. I like a lot because as it is a flip phone, I can carry it easily in my pockets. My husband has the same one. It is easy this way. My tablet is also a Samsung, so I can synchronize them.
I am not crazy about the updates, (on iPhones or android) they always seem to mess up something.

 

[Coconut]

First we just yelled out the window, or used e-mail.
I had a Pager, then they came out with cell phones. So we dumped the pagers.
Had a few cell phones. I have had the same number for around 30 years.
We had a landline and an answering machine until about 15 years ago. We dumped those.
It did not make sense to pay for a landline when everyone in the home had a cell phone.
I mostly use my cell for calls and text. I will look at the weather or search things I want to know about once in awhile.

I never use my cell phone when I drive. When I am out I put on it vibrate settings. If I am at any sort of appointment I turn my phone off. If I forget to bring the phone I just go on about my life. I do not answer when I am busy anyway.
Leave a message I'll call you back.

As far as the Social Media remark I made, I was not disputing anyone.
I am on social media because they consider a Forum social media now.
I was confused because the forums I had were privately hosted and paid for by me.

 

[ChiroDoc]

IMO internet phones have hastened the demise of traditional social contact and interaction. They long ago became the new smoking.-- people constantly fiddling with them and checking them. It's sad.

Look at families in restaurants. No one is talking to one another. They're all staring down at their hand-held devices in silence. I've actually had people get up off the treatment table to answer their cell phone! They've become the center piece of their lives.

And the younger set? Absolutely pathetic. Minimal social interaction. Internet phones ought to be banned for kids under 18, or even 21-- just like booze. They could still have portable phones without internet access, in case of emergencies.

 

[January]

Yes I have a mobile phone. We no longer have a landline phone.

I use my phone for lots of things.

 

[horseless carriage]

My early analogue phone had a plug-in landline style, handset. It was perfect, all that I needed. At the time I was in business with my brother. He insisted that we invest in, what was then, still relatively new, I-phones. He went and bought The Apple wotsit for each of us. He took to it immediately, I floundered. That was twenty years ago, we have since both retired, my brother has bought an upgraded phone twice since then, I am still floundering with that Apple i-Phone, and twenty years on, still cannot fathom how it connects to the internet. I would much rather have my analogue phone back.