Sophisticated Cellphone - Do We Really Need Them?

Philippines
June 4, 2008 6:20am CST
I wonder why most of us including myself love, always want to have a new and sophisticated cellphone whenever a new model comes out. We want the latest model with the most features that it has to offer like a higher resolution built-in camera, an mp3 player, 3G capable phone, a high expandable memory, and others when in the first place, cellphone's main purpose is just to make and receive calls as well as short text messages. My question now is, do we really need those kind of cellphones or we just want them to be 'in' with our group wherein most of our colleagues have them, or we just want to satisfy our desire to have the best in everything. What is your view in this?
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@challs12 (548)
• Malaysia
7 Jun 08
Well, I'm not really concern about sophisticated mobile phone. But I do pray that one day my mobile phone can let me run internet confidently, safely and capable to run all my computer function. I really need something that can me feel confidence about the security before I can use my mobile phone to replace my computer. I know there are few models that can let us brows and chat using our mobile phone, but the level of security is very poor.
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• United States
6 Jun 08
All my husband and I look for in a cell phone is just your average cell phone. We don't do texting or any of that other stuff. We don't even want a camara on our phone. They are for making and receiving calls and that is all we need on a cell phone.
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@sk66rc (4250)
• United States
5 Jun 08
I'm not sure if I would consider my blackberry 8120 as "sophsticated" phone, I've seen some phones that will do more stuff then my computer does, lol... As far as most of the functions on my phones, I use them... I do agree with you in that main purpose of cell. phone is to make & receive calls... But in my case, since I use my cell. phone for work purpose as well, I use for emails I get from work, camera for taking pictures of project or sites & others... I don't use internet on my phone that much but I do use it to do simple banking, checkinb my balance, to see if check cleared, pretty much simple stuff... And also to check the balance on paypal accuount, checking weather, movie times, so forth... I guess I really don't NEED that but it does make my life a lot easier & helps me to use my time more efficiently...
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