How long can you live without your cell phone?

I used to listen to music too, in my old cell phone! Now with the smartphones the battery needs charging every day if I have music on so I avoid it. It's a shame because I like it a lot :)

My smartphone lasts for almost 3 days if I just use it for calls and around 1 day if I go online, play games and listen to music. My friend just got a motorolla smartphone and she needs to charge it every 6 hrs without using the internet etc. She needs to have a charger in her bag, it's crazy! When it comes to the battery life i miss my old phone, I don't remember how many days it lasted because they were a lot, maybe 4-5 days.

I have older phone so it's not a smartphone and with all listening to music it's battery lasts at least two days, sometimes even a few days, so those older phones aren't that bad at all. I heard those new iPhone 4S batteries last only for a day without doing anything, listening to music or something like that. It's just that those processors for these new phones are so powerfull, and batteries are just too weak.

Well thezone... I don't know about being evil, but I do think that they can cause to many problems for people because they use the phone when they should be doing something else...like driving! I was in a store the other day, a fabric store and looking at fabric and this lady says "well, do you think these colors go together?" I thought she was talking to me so I responded..."yeah, those look great". She says something else, I respond and notice she is looking at me really funny like. Well, a few more responses and it turns out she had a bluetooth in her ear...she wasn't talking to me, but to a friend on the phone! i was so embarresed! The next time I went to that same store...I was looking at some fabric and a lady comes next to me and she asks..."do you think these are 70's colors?" I again, respond... and after a few...she tells me "oh, I'm talking to my daughter. I am making this for her daughter so I was just telling her about the colors". Again, totally embarresed! Third time I go to that same store...a lady comes to my side and asks that same question...i look at her and say" are you talking to me or do you have a bluetooth?" She looks at me like I am being rude and says, "no, I was asking your opinion as matching colors is hard for me". I explained to her why I asked her that and she bust up laughing and saying that has happened to her before, no don't feel bad, no problem etc. We chatted about the fabric and I helped her come to a decision! So cell phones also cause alot of embarresment and miscommunication!

Ha ha that has happened me many a time coffeebreak. I blame the ones with the tiny phones and the blue tooth earpieces are even worse lol

Hehe, that's a funny story coffeebreak! I never had an experience like this, but sometimes when I get a taxi for a long ride I tend to talk on the phone as I am in the taxi and meny times the driver is confused thinking that I am talking to him. So now I just talk on the phone with my handsfree and I have the microphone visible in front of my mouth when I am in a taxi :)) Those stories are quite funny though and i enjoy them!

Hmmm.. I don't know if I could choose between internet and my phone, I need both! I guess internet can replace the phone in some ways for example with skype etc (in terms of calling). But you can't have internet everywhere unless it's in your mobile! Dilemma..

Sandee - I think alot of people would be surprised that life can go on without a cell surgically attached to their hands! I have one only cause my daughter wanted me to have it for emergency cause I was daycaring her daughter and picking her up from school and all. But I dont' use it for anything but that. I don't pick her up anymore, but only take it when I leave the house and the only reason for that is for emergency since there are any pay phones around anymore...thanks to the cell phone! But if I need tow or something, I can call. We got along just fine last decade without them...I think cell phones are far far far FAR to much out of control! When was the last time you saw someone WITHOUT a cell in their hands!!!LOL!!!

I bought my first one in high school but didn't use it much at that time :) I hope one day I will be able to say the same with you! At the moment I literally take it everywhere with me!

You are right on that one besweet! My GD got her first cell at age 9! I mean come on!! But really, her mom got it for her cause due to divorce, she was at daddys one week, mommys the next and daddy kept "forgetting" to pay the land line so there was no way to contact the child! So mom got her the cell to use between them and me and a few friends. Butnow.. age 11 she has a "smart phone" or is it an Iphone...I am not up on all that, but she plays games on it, texts, calls, and has the internet option, but I dont' think mom has included that in her plan as she doesn't want her online without supervision. But cell phones and ones life being on that little gadget is the wave of the future so I guess it is good that she learn how to use them...like computers, they are here to stay...possibly even replacing computers for many! That is scary!!!

because of cellphone many college female drop out because of cellphone you know why? secrete i think you can guest what i mean.

Haha :) If you make me choose, I will say food! In a survival case I might trade my phone for food :P I remember that I grew up with out a cell phone, they were rare then and in the size of landline phones! I bought my first when I was 16 I think but I wasn't using it because only a few people had one. Since then, it has been part of my life for many years and if you get a habit of using something so much then it needs a lot of effort to change your habits. I like my cell phone though and they have become "mini computers" now so I keep everything in there so I wouldn'i want to change that! Nowadays kids grow up with cell phones from so young and I believe it must be even more difficult for them to live without a phone!

True, I carry it with me all the time and all of my friends do the same. Yesterday I was out with my friends and one of them is really obsessed with her cell phone. She is sending messages to her boyfriend all the time so we took her cell phone for 10 minutes because she was constantly checking it, waiting for a response! It was funny how she reacted, she was anxious that she would have a message and she wouldn't see it immediately and she was checking the time waiting for the 10 minutes to pass! I like my phone too! But when I am with my friends I leave it inside my bag and have fun. Maybe I will check it every hour to see if I have any texts and that's it!

What makes it so necessary is that without it I wouldn't have any other alarms to set! So I would probably oversleep, be late for my job etc.. We have invested so many things on the cell that if we should live without having one, we sould search for alternatives!

Haha, that is correct about the durability of the new phones. The more functions they have, the more problems you might get. Personally, I have an iphone just because I need to check my e-mails all the time due to work but it's very cheap and easy to get a new phone nowadays that people just change them every year or less. My old phone is 5 years old and it is still working perfectly (I am using it sometimes as well). It has fell down several times and nothing happened to it. My new phone is only 5 months old and it closes by itself sometimes, and I have to say that I have never dropped it!

I undestant what you say. The amount of numbers that we store in our cells is crazy. And personally, I haven't stored those numbers anywhere else so my cell is the only way I can communicate with my friends and people that I know! Thanks for the response, have a great day! :)

When I am outside I find GPS and time/date the most important features of the phone! GPS helps me to always find my way and I never carry a watch so mny phone tells me the time, if I forget it I lose the sense of time and I hate asking people in the street! Thank you for your comment Rosa!

In holidays, it is sometimes annoying when people in the bach just can't stop talking on the phone. It is stressful and we are there to have fun and relax! I still take it with me to keep in touch with my family but I never ever take it with me to the beach!

If you have made it for month without a phone then you are not addicted at all! It must be quite relaxing to know that noone will interrupt your calming moments when you just want to get away for a while!

Hehe :) We have to admit that it is too important to stay away! As long as it is useful for the correct reasons! Thank you for your comment pxlpourvie!

Spending 10 dollars/year in my cell sounds like a dream! That is very good for you, I think that in order to keep the number you need to renew with the minimun amount at least once a year or else it will be deleted. Spam sms are annoying indeed! Thanks for your comment!

There was a period of time that I was doing the same, I even had my phone placed on an approachable place when I was showering! Now I am more relaxed and I leave it on my desk but I always run to get it when someone calls!!

It is part of our life though, it is usually required from many jobs to own a cell phone and at the end of the day I don't know if it is your choice. I will tell you for example that my parents bought a cell phone when they were 55 (not many years ago). They were "forced" to learn how to use it because they always needed to call me on my call phone or others. Calling from landlines to mobiles costs a fortune so they decided to buy a cell, do a family program and get free minutes to others which is significantly cheaper. Having a mobile wasn't necessary for them but everything works in a way that you can't live without one.

My phone is full of memories as well. This tiny device has so many photos from different times in my life and I feel nostalgic sometimes when I look through them. However I regularly trnsfer everything in my computer to be safe. My phonebook is not saved anywhere else though and I will lose everything if something happens to my phone. By the way, I have noticed that before cell phones come in my life, I used to remember many phone numbers, birthdays etc. Now that I have everything with me when I need it I don't remember anything, I have to check first!