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Living without your phone for a day

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Admittedly, I saw this on Kathie Lee and Hoda this morning. Interesting video:

How lost are you without a phone? Are you able to keep it tucked away in social settings?
I'm usually quite good about doing it, but sometimes I want to show friend a photo or Google something real quick. :o
 
For the most part I wont use it, except for a group photo or to show others something.

I don't sit and text for 15 minutes straight or anything like that... which I see people doing occasionally.
 
If I'm out with friends or just out in general my phone stays in my pocket. I won't even answer a call unless it's my son.
Of course there are occassions when someone asks a Googleable question or wants to see a picture or something along those lines, then I will bust it out. But, for the most part, it just stays in my pocket.
 
At the moment, my average day will see me look at my phone once early in the morning then switch it off until late evening.

To be honest, I am perfectly comfortable without the phone and don't feel anywhere near as lost without it as I used to.
 
No problem to me although I'm probably a bit of an oddity in that my phone is PAYG and if I go out in an evening I do not want to be communication from people away from where I'm am (only family and two friends have my phone number - the phone part is really mostly emergency contact) or to otherwise, eg. Internet, be distracted by it.

I changed to a smart phone when my old Sagemem was dying. Interest in the technology rather than being "permanently connected" attracted me to the smart phone.
 
out of ideas said:
a better question is can kathy lee and hoda do a morning show without drinking wine? ;)
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They occasionally go with cocktails. ;)
Hey, I'll admit I love em and watch whenever I have a weekday morning off of work. :)
Plus it was quaint to hear KL not know what a Bluetooth headset was. :p
 
I consider myself a bit of a power user when it comes to my phone. Since my phone is my main music player, source for internet (home & on the go), and portable game console, I'd be lost without my phone. Especially when having to make 2+ hour commutes to and from work everyday.

EDIT: I use public transportation.
 
I used to rely on mine more for commutes when it was longer (on the bus). Now it's super short, so no big deal. I don't use mine much at home, but it's my music player at work, so it'd be rough without.
 
I remember that... It ended with me curling up in a ball sucking my thumb and yelling, "Make it stop!" Worst nightmare ever.
 
went on a cruise. no service, phone was useless as a phone, so it stayed in the bags.

was interesting not having the answer to "what is that....?" in my hands a few seconds after the thought popped into my head, but other than that it wasn't really a big deal.
 
I'm probably a bit of an anomaly in today's world, as I really don't rely on my [smart]phone at all.

I've mentioned [many times!] that I get absolutely no reception here at my house, so using it as a phone is out unless I'm...out somewhere.

But since I'm home most of the time, I don't text or do anything else that others use their smartphones for...since I have no signal.

I'm always connected to my wireless network, though, so I do use it occasionally when I'm outside and want to quickly check something. It's hard for me to see things, like web pages, without expanding them, so I limit that to when I really want an answer RIGHT NOW. :)

I do play games on my phone, certain games, that are easy to see.

So the bottom line, for me, is that I'm not at all lost without my smartphone. I can take it or leave it. :D
 
I can do without the phone - my old Palm Sony Clie still works. It takes notes and has Astromist, I can toss all my how to PDFs in it.
 
MoodyBlues said:
I'm probably a bit of an anomaly in today's world, as I really don't rely on my [smart]phone at all.

I've mentioned [many times!] that I get absolutely no reception here at my house, so using it as a phone is out unless I'm...out somewhere.

But since I'm home most of the time, I don't text or do anything else that others use their smartphones for...since I have no signal.

I'm always connected to my wireless network, though, so I do use it occasionally when I'm outside and want to quickly check something. It's hard for me to see things, like web pages, without expanding them, so I limit that to when I really want an answer RIGHT NOW. :)

I do play games on my phone, certain games, that are easy to see.

So the bottom line, for me, is that I'm not at all lost without my smartphone. I can take it or leave it. :D
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Why don't you switch carriers?
 
Gmash said:
Why don't you switch carriers?
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Good question! :) I've had AT&T since the last millennium, and since I don't need to use my phone as a phone when I'm at home, I guess it's just not worth the effort. (FWIW, I have an actual, hard-wired, landline at home--and will until they're obsolete! I love the boring certainty of it--always a good, strong connection, no dropped calls, no fuzzy wuzzy sounds, no charging, and it still works even if the power's out.)
 
I probably could do without my phone for the day, but I'd have to carry a notebook and pen around with me instead, or a filofax. I keep my timetable and appointments on Google Calendar, and I'm always taking notes for ideas and thing. I don't have a commute as such as I live on the school campus, and I do have a laptop at my desk. If people wanted to contact me, they'd have to come and find me instead of just phoning or texting, or ring the office phone, but if I wasn't there they'd have to leave a message. Basically it's going back to the old ways of doing things.
 
Not if I want to look up a bird, flower or rock formation. It's also a reference library I can't do without.

Also can line up a telescope with an astronomy program.

That isn't your usual use, but I like it.
 
I am what some might refer to as a 'junkie'. I would be completely lost without my phone... I get terrible reception at my house, so I don't use the actual phone part of it, but since I don't have service, I use Facebook Messenger on my wifi in place of texting. Everyone that knows me well enough to text me, is also my friend of Facebook, so that's that. Since I got my phone, I have barely opened my laptop at home. Anything I could use my laptop for (Google, paying bills, Facebook, AndroidForums ;) ) I do through my phone. My phone is my main music player, at home and at work, whether it be Slacker Radio or the Sirius XM app, and i basically open it when I get to work, put on Opie and Anthony, and don't shut it off until I leave ;)

If I didn't have my phone, I would be completely shut off from the outside world, especially at home, unless I sat in front of my laptop all day with Facebook open (which is something I absolutely refuse to do, because I hate Facebook, I just like their messenger ;) chat heads, ftw). Basically everything I do that requires even the slightest bit of technology I do on my phone... Hell.. It's even my only flashlight ;)
 
i am required to keep my phone at home during the work week, because my boss finds it distracting. so it remains plugged in and sitting on a counter even when i return home. the only use i even get out of it lately is connecting it to the Bluetooth stereo in my car when i go out for the weekend.

However, had this thread been titled 'could you live without Android and use a dumbphone from now on?' then i would have to say otherwise. i tried to do that once to save money on my bill ($10/mo vs. $50-90/mo) but i just couldn't do it.
 
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