i have lost faith in surveys

[danny_galaga]

WTF?

http://tech.yahoo.com/blogs/hughes/18837

i would give up my mobile for a month for 100 bucks...

[Joystick Jerk]

Is there any prize for those of us who have never owned a cell and have no plans to ever buy one?

[jbox]

Yes. Enjoy it:

[patrickl]

WTF?

http://tech.yahoo.com/blogs/hughes/18837

i would give up my mobile for a month for 100 bucks...

I pay 45 euro a month for my phone so 100 bucks back doesn't like much to me.

A million dollars is just silly though. I doubt the people who answered that they wouldn't give up their phone for a million, took the question seriously.

[danny_galaga]

Yes. Enjoy it:

 

[Joystick Jerk]

Yes. Enjoy it:

Bah! People could still get in contact with me if I had that.

[patrickl]

maybe you can trade it for a stone tablet and a chisel?

[Joystick Jerk]

Nah. By chiseling on that someone could perhaps stumble across it and then some rudimentary form of communication has taken place.

When I leave the house, I don't want anyone to be able to get in contact with me. That's "me" time.

[shmokes]

Is there any prize for those of us who have never owned a cell and have no plans to ever buy one?

Obsolescence? 

[ChadTower]

I don't have a cell, don't plan on getting one, and still people go to effort to contact me.  They just have to, gasp, leave a message on my answering machine at home and wait until I call back.  The horrors.  Or they send me an email and wait until I get home to see it.  Oh noes.

[patrickl]

I notice people try to reach me through e-mail more and more. I receive e-mail on my "phone" so I'm easy to reach that way. I like this a lot. It means less of those pesky and intruding phone calls. I have to admit I "train" people to do this by hardly ever having my phone ringer on. When I have the time I answer my phone, otherwise they go in the voice mail. So a voice call basically gets treated like an e-mail. Actually I'm more likely to quickly answer an e-mail then I would answer a phone call (phone calls just take much more time).

[shmokes]

I like phone calls, but I HATE voicemail.  When I was a network admin I strongly encouraged people to contact me via email if they wanted a response.  And I had my office phone permanently forwarded to my cell phone, not because I wanted all people to be able to get a hold of me at all times, but because I simply did not want to have to manage the voicemail on my desk phone.  Ever.  The problem with voicemail is, if it's not an emergency it doesn't move to the top of my to-do list, but voicemail is organized so poorly that I'm liable to forget about it entirely and never actually address whatever the person was calling me for.  I mean, sure, when I listen to the message I push the button to save the message, but if I ever want to listen to it again I have to get by all the other saved messages in order to hear it. 

Visual Voicemail is by far the biggest innovation brought to the table by the Apple iPhone, as voice messages are displayed onscreen exactly the same way email is displayed in a typical email client, and you can listen to messages in order of importance, or file them away based on whatever criteria you want.  It's the way email works, but more importantly it's the way any type of messaging system should work.

[patrickl]

On my PC I do get voice mails in my Outlook inbox. On the PDA not no. That would be nice. Although I get a lot less phonecalls each day now.

Actually, I do basically the same thing, but manually. Now and then I scan my voicemails and I listen and put them on my todo list and delete them from the voice mail.

[shmokes]

Oh yeah . . . there's no question that if I displayed proper discipline there wouldn't be any problem.  But I'm ADHD and have a great capacity for procrastination.  And I'm unorganized.  Voicemail amplifies these deficiencies, while email alleviates them.  If I don't address a problem in an email right away, it will still be staring me in the face the next time I open my email client, right there with the sender and subject of the message clearly visible to keep me from putting it off until I forget about it.

[ChadTower]

Visual Voicemail is by far the biggest innovation brought to the table by the Apple iPhone, as voice messages are displayed onscreen exactly the same way email is displayed in a typical email client, and you can listen to messages in order of importance, or file them away based on whatever criteria you want.  It's the way email works, but more importantly it's the way any type of messaging system should work.

It's not innovative, really.  I worked on a product for NTT that was doing that nearly ten years ago.  It wasn't a mobile product as it predated reasonable cell phones but you could log into your home voicemail with a web browser and read it like email.  The only way this sounds different is that it's on a mobile device instead of your home PC.

[shmokes]

It's been available in corporate phone systems for slightly longer than IP phones have been available and pushing to replace PBX systems too.  Nevertheless, it has never before been possible on a cell phone, so it is an innovation that Apple brought to the table with the iPhone.  They may not have invented the idea, but they were the first to bring it to the cell phone table.

And, regardless of whether you prefer to call it an innovation or a feature, it is its #1 selling point for me.

[TOK]

WTF?

http://tech.yahoo.com/blogs/hughes/18837

i would give up my mobile for a month for 100 bucks...

I would pay 100 bucks a month NOT to have one. When mine rings, its never good news.

[danny_galaga]

WTF?

http://tech.yahoo.com/blogs/hughes/18837

i would give up my mobile for a month for 100 bucks...

I would pay 100 bucks a month NOT to have one. When mine rings, its never good news.

mine never rings 

[boykster]

Mine rarely rings, but that's because I almost NEVER give it out to anyone.  Only a few close friends and family members have my mobile number, and on occasion I'll give it to specific people for emergeny contact. 

[HaRuMaN]

After my cellphone was stolen and my wireless carrier dicked me over, I switched to prepaid.  I'm never going back to a contract.

[ChadTower]

I had one a few years ago... the only people who ever called it were my mother and wife.  Needless to say I wasn't paying $40/month for that.

[hypernova]

I like it when mine rings.

Then once stop the ringing to answer it, I don't like it anymore.

I edited Family Guy's PBJ time .mp3 as my ringtone.  Anyone want it?  During the middle of Brian's song, Peter interrupts (which I removed,) but I think I managed to splice the ends decently.

[danny_galaga]

Mine rarely rings, but that's because I almost NEVER give it out to anyone.  Only a few close friends and family members have my mobile number, and on occasion I'll give it to specific people for emergeny contact. 

thats what makes me so sad. i reckon ive given my number to half the women in this town...

[ChadTower]

What bugs the crap out of me are the people who put their ring volume on max, put in an annoying ringtone, and then leave their phone in their cube so I have to listen to it ring all day while they're off doing other things.  Shut the ---smurfing--- thing off if you're going to leave it in the workplace.

[boykster]

What bugs the crap out of me are the people who put their ring volume on max, put in an annoying ringtone, and then leave their phone in their cube so I have to listen to it ring all day while they're off doing other things.  Shut the ---smurfing--- thing off if you're going to leave it in the workplace.

or take it with you.  what's the point of a mobile phone if you leave it at your desk

 

[Jouster]

My wife is the only one I really talk to on my cell phone...but since we don't have a land line at home, I don't really have a choice but to have the cell.

Jouster

[jbox]

Wow, that's pretty harsh. What exactly did you do so that she wont even talk to you at home? 

[Jouster]

Why...need some pointers?

Jouster

[DrewKaree]

Mine rarely rings, but that's because I almost NEVER give it out to anyone.  Only a few close friends and family members have my mobile number, and on occasion I'll give it to specific people for emergeny contact. 

206-man-dals?