Community weekly poll: What do you use your cell phone for?
- 1/16/07 5:18 PM
Cell Phone Use
by wheelzup - 1/17/07 9:57 AM In reply to: What do you use your cell phone for? by Marc Bennett
I only use it as a phone, all of the add on junk costs to much for my blood. Add to that I'm disabled with limited use of my hands and fingers and with the buttons being so small make it very difficult for me to be playing around with menus and so on. It's hard enough programing in the phone numbers I need.
is a phone camera useful
by leftylucy - 1/17/07 10:14 AM In reply to: What do you use your cell phone for? by Marc Bennett
Yes. I would never carry a camera with me but having one on my phone has been very useful. I do NOT play games on the phone, listen to music, use the internet, text messaging. My phone must sync with with my computer for addresses, calander and notes. I like my phone simple, large enough to find (went swimming with my razr in my back pocket-too small and flat to find). The feature I'd like is the old original palm ability to scrawl notes on the screen and store them
try the Treo
by pammig - 1/18/07 10:06 AM In reply to: is a phone camera useful by leftylucyThe Treo's still have Palm (make sure to get the Palm version and not the Word) capability and use a touch sensitive screen. You can use a program to write on the screen and store into the memo fields. I love that.
I am not sure if the Word version has a program like you had on the original palm, but the TREO does have a touch sensitive screen...and I love that.
Apple's iPhone
by servaes_marc - 1/17/07 10:20 AM In reply to: What do you use your cell phone for? by Marc Bennett
First, let me tell you what I use my cell phone for. To make phone calls. Have the manufacturers and marketeers forgotton that function?
Most phones tout so many other functions that are pitched as making your life better. I had one of these multi-function phones for about a week. I realized I would never use all those ******** after the first day when the novelty wore off. To actually use one of those to make a simple phone call proved more difficult than using a simple dedicated cell phone. Plus, it's so much bigger and consumes so much more power.
I'll take a small shirt pocket phone that actually makes a call in the areas I happen to frequent, thank you. My present phone goes a week without a charge. I have a digital camera that takes much better photos than any cell phone camera, and the two items together are smaller and less expensive than the multi-function phone.
Hey, cell phone companies, you want to pitch something that will really sell? How about lowering your rates? Advertise 30 bucks a month, including unlimited minutes, domestic long distance, unlimited SMS text in a small, easy to use, battery efficient phone and you'll probably get 80 percent of the market share. Most people tend to make calls when they need to, and not make more calls just because it's free. With the exception of some teenagers, most folks won't clog the networks with free calls all day long. They have better things to do with their time. But hey, that 30 bucks amonth unlimited everything marketing approach would work on anyone, regardless of how many minutes they would actually use.
Rick Bennette
www.FineArtVideo.com
phoneless
by PerryFitz - 1/17/07 10:31 AM In reply to: What do you use your cell phone for? by Marc Bennett
I don't have a cell phone..
Cell Phones are needs based Toys/Tools
by Steve_OConnor - 1/17/07 10:39 AM In reply to: What do you use your cell phone for? by Marc Bennett
For work, I just purchased Cingular's Treo 750. I was waiting for a High Quality MS based PDA phone. I looked at the Cingular HP/iPAQ released earlier in 2006. Didn’t like the feel or form factor. I looked at the Cingular 8525, didn’t like the bulk or sliding keypad.
The Treo 750 was the best selection for me. It is a PDA phone using MS Mobile 5.0. It has everything my HP/iPAQ PDA has with this very important addition-push email on the go. The Treo 750 also supports/is compatible with Cingular’s 3G/UMTS (A lot faster than EDGE) high speed network. The 3G/UMTS coverage is now available in a lot of areas. I know about Blackberry and had a Razr with email, but this is better. Now I don't need my phone and PDA with me at all times.
The Treo sync's flawlessly with Media Player 11.0 and sounds great. Pictures are ok/useable. Internet browsing-if you have nothing else available-is actually pretty nice.
Overall, I will use this phone for everything:
1) Phone
2) Email
3) Organizer
4) MP3 Player
5) Internet Browser
6) Camera
cell phone use
by 4138168 - 1/17/07 11:19 AM In reply to: What do you use your cell phone for? by Marc Bennett
mobile phone in my case are only used for, urgent calls when away from home and for short messages ie texts they should not be able to work in a car unless the engine is off
Uses for my phone
by AaronX - 1/17/07 11:47 AM In reply to: What do you use your cell phone for? by Marc Bennett
I cannot emphasise how much I despise using the telephone, so that's the last task my mobile phone is put to.
I have a Windows Mobile-powered Lobster 700TV from Virgin Mobile (here in the UK), which includes digital radio and TV (although limited TV channels).
So the main uses for my phone, in no specific order:
Text messaging
Alarm
AvantGo
Calendar/appointments
TV
Radio
Media (music and video) player
Stills camera
Video camera
Note-taking
So coupled with the PDA which I still carry around most of the time, it's my mobile office and media centre.
I Love Text Messaging
by jayhelman - 1/17/07 1:40 PM In reply to: What do you use your cell phone for? by Marc Bennett
I might not use it that much, but I think texting on your phone is great. But I gotta get a camera phone some day...
Alarm Clock! lol
by x.killeddestiny.x - 1/17/07 3:07 PM In reply to: What do you use your cell phone for? by Marc Bennett
I'm like completely broke right now so my cell doesn't have any time so its just my alarm clock right now but when it has time I mostly use it for texting.
RE: What do you user your cell phone for?
by jekking - 1/17/07 4:21 PM In reply to: What do you use your cell phone for? by Marc Bennett
I use mine new SLVR L7 by Moto for all of the above. Calendar for my most important "FYI's" of the day/week. I regularly send & receive text messages to and from my domestic partner. Ocassionally I play games or listen to music (more now with the iTunes). The things that that I probably do the least of is to take photos, videos or to surf the WWW.
I use my cell phone for just about everything
by sharee100 - 1/17/07 5:35 PM In reply to: What do you use your cell phone for? by Marc Bennett
I have a T-Mobile Dash and a Samsung 612i. I use the Samsung for Sprint. I couldn't transfer phone to T-Mobile. I like my Dash, too. I use them for Outlook, Calendar, calculator, watching movies, reading books, listening to music or books on tape. I make shopping lists in EXCEL on my computer and transfer them to my phone. I send text messages and photos. I use my photo album, too. There is usually a PC available, so I don't use the internet often. Oh, and I play games on it. The Dash has a camera, too. I've used it a couple of times.
a phone is a phone is a phone.
by kodiak53 - 1/17/07 6:31 PM In reply to: What do you use your cell phone for? by Marc Bennett
I never understood the need for all of the bells and whistles on a cell phone. It should be just a phone !!! You have a lap top or PC or Mac for all of the other things. Have we turned into a society of Mutes who can't live if we can't text or keep in touch with the office every second?
Why can't we edit features online ourselves?
by adrienne50 - 1/17/07 7:11 PM In reply to: What do you use your cell phone for? by Marc Bennett
I think that the question should be: "What would you use your cell phone for, if you could?" I would be so grateful if someone would make a phone that was super at being JUST a phone. Motorola StarTac was great, for instance.
I would like to see just one simple model that doesn't look like it's made for a 5-year-old or someone who wears coke-bottle glasses. Nothing against them, but I am a normal person who just wants a regular normal phone. No games, colored moving screen savers, internet, writing letters and memos, file and photo storage, music, calendars, gps, or camera. I have much better equipment for all of that, and it DOESN'T take 15 minutes to upload when I turn it on.
And can anyone tell me why calls have to sound like they're being transmitted by string under water? I often get digital burbling and crackling even though I belong to a company supposedly rated the best for years, live and work around a big city, and have bought what I was told are great phones. Is something not clear about what's really important here? I think that the cellphone industry is so far out adding spy rings and decoders that they forgot to keep up with the actual phone technology. (Oh, yeah, oops.)
And while we're at it, since I am told repeatedly to upgrade my cellphone programming on a regular basis, I'd like to know why it isn't possible for me to customize my phone's basic features on the web. Let's get with the program, kids!
Adrienne
Listening to music (painfully)
by grtgrfx - 1/17/07 7:29 PM In reply to: What do you use your cell phone for? by Marc Bennett
My Nokia cellphone has both an MP3 player and an FM radio. The radio function needs an antenna (the headset wire) so I can't use a bluetooth earpiece to listen, though I can play MP3s through the Bluetooth headset. On the other hand, because the music player lists music in the order it's uploaded into the phone, I have no way to choose songs unless I want to click the down button dozens, maybe hundreds of times to find something I want to hear. So, I listen to the radio more than the music. Heaven forbid I have an audiobook with 75+ chapters (I do) because all the chapters have the same name except the last few characters...that's longer than the screen can display, so who knows which audio segment is which. This player is NOT easy to use. And Nokia is known for their user-friendly interfaces. I'd hate to see how other manufacturers do it.
I already know Apple's iPhone will make this unpleasant task as easy as using an iPod. Match that, Nokia!
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