Mobile phones, anyone else who doesn't need one?

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As the title I just don't see the point in owning one for myself, I'm either busy at work and it would be stuck in my locker ( don't get me started on young ones in work checking there twitter )
If i'm not at work i'm at home or out somewhere where I don't really want to stop what i'm doing to answer a phone call.
I don't really know what i'm asking tbh, I suppose I'm asking why should I get one?
 
Coming from the opposite side, don't you find it worrying how you feel you are unable to cope without your mobile phone?
I mean how did we all manage to survive before hand? we should have been extinct by now :P
 
The last phone I had was a Samsung S3 mini on O2, when I used it as a phone, sat there on a bus or where ever I couldn't even hear the person on the other end the signal was so bad.
For apps, well I just wasn't into them on FB and tinder while on my break sat on the toilet. Tinder on the toilet you say, swipe and wipe?
Yeah I just don't need one for everyday life, but as others have said, it would be handy if you're in need of emergency help, but that's a bit like paying for home insurance for years and not using it huh?
I don't have any home insurance, I just put £40 away into a rainy day isa account.
 
Everyone of my pals lived in the same area and we all met up at 6pm at our old primary school, the half way walking point for us all.
Then I was the odd one out at 14 when my mum decided to move to a better area and I had to get a bus at the weekend to meet up with them.
 
Jean-F said:
Agreed, but if you broke down halfway between two of those phones, in torrential rain and at -2c,
I bet that you’d wish that you had a mobile phone then.



We all survived when we had to get up and push a button to switch channels on the TV,
but wasn’t it so much easier when remotes became available?
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Wasn't it better when we only had the 3-4 tv channel and it was easier to settle on one show, today we have so many channel that we spend most of the night channel hopping not watching anything.
Like having 200+ music CD's or DVD's and not knowing what to watch or listen to :P
 
FoxEye said:
At first, probably yes.

Today, the UI on a lot of devices is unbelievably poor, confusing and inconsistent. I know loads of people who cannot for the life of them figure out how to use Sky, etc, and find modern remotes far too complex and confusing.

And I must say I sympathise. There is so much awful UI design in modern electronics and modern remotes aren't simple or easy for a lot of people.

I bought a phone recently specifically marketed at older people, claiming to be easy to use. Like **** it was. I could use it, but when I did I immediately noticed how buttons would do one thing in one place, and something completely different in another place, and there is absolutely no thought put into how to make these things consistent and obvious.
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I still laugh about going to my grans on a Sunday and pushing the teletext buttons on the remote and my gran warning me not to break the TV.
 
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