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Be careful or you end like me where I have a giant plan and become a heavy user.

I used to be like you. Felt that phones are phones and not toys. Then I got a Blackberry and liked how I could surf the Web on my phone when I am bored. Then I went to an iPhone 3 which had more stuff like good games and a better browser.

Now I have a Galaxy S5 and I have switched phones four times in two years or five phones in three years. Though most of them was a result of either damaged or lost phones.

Don't get me wrong the period where I had no phone, no Internet, no computer and no cable back in February and March, I didn't care.

Captain Picard's Hair wrote:I figure, why not? The device itself replaces two devices with one, faster and more capable than either. Even for a light user there are all kinds of ways it can be handy.

That's my experience. I can go months without making or getting a call on my phone. But I use it to play music through the car radio when I'm driving, I use it as a satnav, I use it as a portable disc drive, I use it to play my folks cute cat videos through their TV, check emails on the move, and about a dozen other things.

I receive and make probably one call a week. Of course the moment I leave the phone at home for a few hours, someone literally dies and I get fifty calls.

Ummm... what's the trick to not getting calls on your phone? I can't work for a solid 15 minutes without stopping to answer the damned thing three times.

Mikey wrote:Ummm... what's the trick to not getting calls on your phone? I can't work for a solid 15 minutes without stopping to answer the damned thing three times.

Having no friends helps.

Graham Kennedy wrote:

Mikey wrote:Ummm... what's the trick to not getting calls on your phone? I can't work for a solid 15 minutes without stopping to answer the damned thing three times.

Having no friends helps.

This is true.

Hmm, I'll give that a try.

For good or ill, in truth it's normally either my wife (who, interestingly enough, gives me grief about the one time every week or so that I text her during her workday) or some sort of personal business - setting up or utility arrangements, deliveries, doctors' offices, etc., etc. I think the issue isn't one of too many people who want to talk to me, but rather one of the normal number of people but me only being home for a few hours a day before it's too late to call.

Graham Kennedy wrote:

Mikey wrote:Ummm... what's the trick to not getting calls on your phone? I can't work for a solid 15 minutes without stopping to answer the damned thing three times.

Having no friends helps.

That's done the trick for me (for better or worse). Let's... not be friends

Well, part of my Thanksgiving has been spent getting the new toy set up more fully with potentially useful apps and such (and a lock to protect said apps and data). There's an MTA bus time app (one thing about living even in the least of the five boroughs of NYC, it is still part of the legally defined city and integrated into it's world-class public transit system). Also, an app to track diabetes (one of those you wish you didn't need). yadda yadda, et cetera, et cetera and so on and so forth...

Meanwhile, a Mythbusters marathon runs in the background.

Hell, there's even office mobile (plugged into my cloud account).

I just picked up a Pebble Smartwatch. Not as powerful as the more expensive Smartwatches, but its visible in daylight and will go 5 days without needing a recharge.

Very useful if you don't drive and spend as much time walking about as I do. It lets me read txts and dismiss phone calls without having to get a fairly expensive phone out and waving it about in public. Will also relay directions from Google Maps, check weather and calendar appointments, acts as a remote control for my phones media player, and is linked to Evernote so I can tick off checklists on there.

Got a large Lego playset for my daughter in some Black Friday shopping.

The wife is not convinced that the gift is entirely for my daughter...

sunnyside wrote:Got a large Lego playset for my daughter in some Black Friday shopping.

The wife is not convinced that the gift is entirely for my daughter...

Gee, I wonder why.

Anyway, my mother's in California visiting my sister, so I'm spending the weekend with my father. I worked four hours Thanksgiving, but it wasn't nearly as bad as I thought it'd be. I loaded TVs and missed out on about 80% of the craziness.

And my mother's back from California, safe and sound. She had a great time and bought me a wooden dinosaur.

Graham Kennedy wrote:

Mikey wrote:Ummm... what's the trick to not getting calls on your phone? I can't work for a solid 15 minutes without stopping to answer the damned thing three times.

Having no friends helps.

Yep.

With a 25% off discount and a healthy bonus in my check, I got all my Christmas shopping done in one fell swoop. 8)