Why are your phones so useful?
 

I'm sorry but i still don't get it.Phones come up so often on the gadgets thread as must haves

What do they do that make you claim that you can't live without them and they are so important to you?

Porn on the move :D:thumb:

.........surf the net in the boys room :D

Shaun

Pretty much the porn thing, though work have spoilt that now by putting policy software on it and the admin took great glee at reading my porn preferences back to me :D

satnav, watch tv/movies, listen to music, upto date weather/news, email, websurfing, game playing oh and make phone calls.. and all in the convenience of one pocket sized gadget.

I have been listening to Stephen Fry's history of mobile phones on radio4. He also reckons that mobile phones are very useful. My mobile phones are used to keep in touch with my family, work and friends; specially when I am out and about. I also use the calculator on them quite a bit. I am liking the temurature thing on my iPhone as well, which mentally prepares me to face the freezing car park, after being in a roasting office all day. I think compass will be useful to find my way in the snow.

It is useful to me to make calls to other humans with such technology.

Email, satnav, SSH, web, music, Much much more

Ideal for QPT (quality poo time).

Unlike some I'm not sat at a pc all day and work field base. So my iPhone is essential to me I couldn't live with out a smartphone

My iPhone even has a app to give me info for my satellite Internet installs.

Its never been so cheap to convey the most trivial of information with someone you can't see and probably doesn't care.

Which just about sums it up.

Oh, and the users have never been so bloody loud.

Mine makes calls (2 last week) and sends texts (maybe 3 last week). Haven't needed to type an email for weeks, and most of what I receive are deleted without reading. Rarely need satnav, but have a TomTom in the glovebox for that. Simply can't justify anything over a free phone and a £3/m contract. I know iPhones are great, but it would be a 'want', not a 'need'.

Mobile phones as such are quite useful and I've had one for ... eek ... many years. Including one of those useless 'Rabbit' things that allowed you to make calls if you were near a base station (google it).

For the current generation of phones they are great. It allows me to work from where-ever I am (email) and keep in touch where-ever I am (through Skype or iMessage).

Could I live without it? Of course. That is true ofe verything apart from air, food and water but I wouldn't want to ...

Steve

I play snake on mine. And achievement points on the Xbox live thingy... DON'T GET A WINDOWS PHONE IT'S PONY,

I have just under 2000 contacts in my phone (BB 9700) so it serves me well as a fairly handy contact and address book - I only use it to make calls and send text messages. The camera has been handy on occasions and I use the calculator to work out my mpg when I fill the tank. Oh and as my wife goes to bed before me and likes our bedroom to be as dark as the blackest corner of hell, I have an app on there that lets me use it as a torch to find my way to my bed, without bumping into furniture etc on the way there :)

Smartphones, you either need one or want one.

If you need one, you are given a smartphone for free and accept the limitation, or not and pay the off tariff fees.

or

You want one and find ways to make it useful in day to day life and like me pay, a stupid amount to do so. This is the last contract regards telecoms i ever get.

Jesus, remember those, there is still I think an old bank in Old Trafford that has the Rabbit logo that said you could make a call in that area, or it did a few years back. The whole thing was crap !

Me and J4ckos mate used to rock the NEC chunky brick type phones, like Bruce Willis had in Die Hard, we thought we were the bollocks :D battery life measured in minutes and it weighed a tonne, had a Nokia Cityman first which turned out to be stolen, bought it from "UK phones" a dodgy little outfit above the Manchester Microwave Centre in Chorlton, basically just villains selling stolen phones, mine turned out to be nicked which was embarrassing as I worked for the Police ! nearly had to go to court to give evidence, was not going to get in any trouble as I bought it in good faith and had a receipt but I got a right grilling off the copper, basically accusing me of knowing it was stolen and telling me I may be liable for prosecution !

Apart from the obvious...Sat Nav, Email, Tracker for hiking/walking.

Its a funny thing, but just like before the advent of clever 'phones, when I am away from the house I find I can manage very well without having to have access to all that information that you mention.

They are of course handy for necessary phone calls but I can do those other things when I am at home on my desktop whuch does them very well, and I can concentrate on the reasons that I actually went out for in the first place. Its so much easier to enjoy the surroundings too.

Seeing people playing games on the phone in public seems a bit manic to me!

Les

I use mine for accessing the Internet, spur of the moment pics of the daughter, sending SMS and Facetime calls to the parents. It's a nice 'all in one' unit.