Lack of a Cell Phone

I personally don’t own a cell phone. I have had one before, and I know many people that do have them, including my younger brother, and my fiance, but I don’t currently have one.

You might be wondering why, but the answer is very simple: I don’t need one.

Shocking isn’t it? In our society there are increasingly few people that don’t have a cell phone. Some people have more than one, so why can I live without one currently?

It is not that I can’t afford it, but instead is mostly because most of the people I know, I don’t talk to on the phone, be it on a landline or something else. We talk through e-mail, over instant messaging clients and in person.

It is funny that a technology that is as pervasive as cell phones is starting to see laws and rules against them as we move forward. People are tired of cell phone users not following the proper etiquette when using one, as well as the fact that they can be distracting when driving or trying to concentrate on any task really.

What would I need a cell phone for? It could be nice to have it so I could co-ordinate with my fiance, but since I work from home, that kind of situation does not come up often.

I am probably the perfect person for a BlackBerry or other device that would allow me to access my e-mail or even better, the MSN Messenger instant messaging service, where I have the bulk of my friends and contacts.

As I watch the cell phone market grow and change, I continually watch devices add more and more features making them convergent devices that people have been talking about for a long time. I am the type of person that owns a MP3 player, and a digital camera, and so I wouldn’t need those devices wasting my cell phone’s battery life.

Will I ever buy a cell phone for myself? Probably, but it will most likely not be until I have a family, a car, and more of a need. If nothing else it sure is fun to watch them evolve over time.

June 15th, 2006 Posted by David in Article at 4:24 pm 2 Comments »
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2 Comments »

  1. Go get a blackberry, Dave! :)

    Comment by J. Angelo Racoma — June 17, 2006 @ 7:29 am

  2. […] If you’d rather not own a mobile phone, you can at least get your WiFi-enabled laptop or PDA its own telephone number so you can receive calls from anywhere as long as you have an Internet connection. It basically involves signing up for a free redirection service that routes calls made to an ordinary telephone number to your VoIP client. Some details at the J Spot. […]

    Pingback by Signing Up for a Free US or UK Number - Cell Phones Blog — August 24, 2006 @ 10:39 pm

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