Out of the loop - don't judge me!

Legs.Eleven

I'm not getting a smart phone. Ever. Not unless normal run-of-the-mill phones become obsolete and I'm forced to buy one. The reason? I don't want or need one. I've got the most basic of Nokia phones and it's perfect for my needs. It's got Snake, a flashlight, a little calendar to note down birthdays and Shark Week and it can text and make phone calls. It also has a ringtone sounds like a baby giggling and who doesn't love a (cute not ugly) baby? I'm happy as Larry!

Recently people (friends and colleagues) have actually been scoffing at the fact that I don't own one. Up till about 2 years ago no one batted an eyelid but now people openly laugh at me and my phone and now they have a right auld gawk at it like I've taken out a tube of thrush cream to make a phone call on. I feel like I'm making some kind of one woman protest against smart phones when all it comes down to is the fact that I simply don't want one.

Am I the only one? Anyone else like me? Anyone else feel persecuted? And if you do judge, why?

Phoebas

Worse than Hitler.

fullgas

We don't care.

crazy cabbage

Dont get one so...

joetoad

How can you not have one? access email, facebook, browse the internet from anywhere, mp3 player, google maps with navigation, youtube whereever you are. Same as carrying a laptop around with you but on a phone

Legs.Eleven

Eh....okay.

lintdrummer

I thanked the op for the shark week comment.

Legs.Eleven

fullgas wrote: »

We don't care.

You cared enough to post! Ha!

Ilik Urgee

Hear hear!! Bingo all the way!!

Gummy Panda

But whatsapp makes it easier for girls to send me pics of their love kebab

Yitzhak Rabin

I can't watch high definition pornography on the LUAS on my nokia 3210.

Sure I can look at text message based porn such as ( . Y . ) and 8::::::: ) - - - , but I haven't been able to masturbate to that stuff for years.

LowOdour

Have you gone into a store to try one out, see how you it feels? A smart phone can do all you said above, but a whole lot more. Dont get an iPhone though...you will belong to a cult or something

Legs.Eleven

joetoad wrote: »

How can you not have one? access email, facebook, browse the internet from anywhere, mp3 player, google maps with navigation, youtube whereever you are. Same as carrying a laptop around with you but on a phone

I don't need to do those things though and didn't we all get by perfectly fine without them? I can wait 'till I get home. I have an mp3 player already. I'll admit the google maps thing appeals but not enough to fork out for one.


Doesn't it bug anyone else that many people seem to have their faces stuck in them most of the day even when talking to them? It's a bit rude, no?

Koptain Liverpool

Legs.Eleven wrote: »

Am I the only one? Anyone else like me? Anyone else feel persecuted? And if you do judge, why?

Yes I'm the same. Please don't use the baby giggling ringtone. If i met you and heard it I'd have to punch you.

I bought a new phone last week because my old Nokia (which was held together by sellotape) finally died. I bought a similar candy bar Nokia phone for €35. The main reason I don't want a smart phone is because I already spend too much time on the internet, and also because any time I've had an expensive phone I've lost it. I'm gonna hold out as long as possible but I'm sure in a year or two a smartphone will be a necessary not a luxury.

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar

we all got on perfectly fine without anti biotics too but they're still bloody handy to have around

Ficheall

Legs.Eleven wrote: »

I'm not getting a smart phone. Ever. Not unless normal run-of-the-mill phones become obsolete and I'm forced to buy one. The reason? I don't want or need one. I've got the most basic of Nokia phones and it's perfect for my needs. It's got Snake, a flashlight, a little calendar to note down birthdays and Shark Week and it can text and make phone calls. It also has a ringtone sounds like a baby giggling and who doesn't love a (cute not ugly) baby? I'm happy as Larry!

A flashlight? Well, lah di dah...

OneArt

joetoad wrote: »

How can you not have one? access email, facebook, browse the internet from anywhere, mp3 player, google maps with navigation, youtube whereever you are. Same as carrying a laptop around with you but on a phone

I don't have one either. The Internet is for when I'm sitting at home with a cup of tea or doing work. When I go out I go out to do things and socialise with people, not stare at my phone.

Legs.Eleven

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar wrote: »

we all got on perfectly fine without anti biotics too but they're still bloody handy to have around

In fairness, we didn't. We were dropping like flies left, right and centre. The fact that we're building up a resistance will eventually lead to pandemics. They're a little more than just being "handy".

fasttalkerchat

you probably get better battery life too

Legs.Eleven

I sound like an old fuddy-duddy when I say I think they're destroying face-to-ace interaction. I see every teenage person with their faces stuck in it constantly and I wonder what the future holds. There has to come a point when we say "enough is enough" and I think we're well beyond that point at this stage.

DeanAustin

Can understand if you don't want a smartphone because you just don't think you need one. If you're not buying one just to make a point then that's a bit silly.

I have two (one for work and my own HTC). I'm not remotely into phones or Facebook or any of that crap but Smartphones are impressive pieces of technology and I find them useful.

That said, I was away with three mates last weekend and two of them had their smartphones out most of the weekend. Taking pictures of every damn thing or checking their Facebook status constantly. That's the issue I have - no-one experiences anything anymore, they take pictures to put on their Facebook page but that problem wasn't caused by smartphones, they just facilitate it.

Legs.Eleven

fasttalkerchat wrote: »

you probably get better battery life too

My battery lasts about a week.

dark crystal

Legs.Eleven wrote: »

Doesn't it bug anyone else that many people seem to have their faces stuck in them most of the day even when talking to them? It's a bit rude, no?

I'm with you OP. I don't have a smartphone, not do I have any desire for one.

Maybe if you need one for work, I could understand, but the whole obsession with pointless apps and having the internet everywhere you go - I just don't get it!

My fella has one and he's never off the flippin' thing. It's a pain in the ass.

LowOdour

Legs.Eleven wrote: »

I sound like an old fuddy-duddy when I say I think they're destroying face-to-ace interaction. I see every teenage person with their faces stuck in it constantly and I wonder what the future holds. There has to come a point when we say "enough is enough" and I think we're well beyond that point at this stage.

Bit odd coming from a person who just went on line to complain about irrelevant stuff about phones

Legs.Eleven

LowOdour wrote: »

Bit odd coming from a person who just went on line to complain about irrelevant stuff about phones

I'm sitting here at home planning my classes for the week for work. I was online anyway.

snubbleste

The Nokia 3200 is the coolest phone. It looks like a colouring book. Phone of the year 2004.

Conway635

Legs.Eleven wrote: »

Am I the only one? Anyone else like me? Anyone else feel persecuted? And if you do judge, why?

I feel your . . bewilderment.

I too am viewed as something skin to a serial killer for making a domestic-technology choice that most other people don't agree with.

Now, unlike you, I do have a smartphone. Love it. Wouldn't be without it. But absolutely and totally accept anyone else's choice to love/hate do with/without whatever. If your current phone is right for you, it's right for you.

I got rid of my television a year or so ago, after I found myself watching it less and less over the years. i gradually got to the point where I would only use it every three weeks or so, and eventually the benefit of decluttering won over the small amount of utility I still got from the TV.

Now, I'm not a media-phobe. Far from it. I get a lot of news and current affairs from radio and the web, and entertainment from books and the odd DVD on my laptop. But I just fell out of love with live TV as a device.

You would think I had announced a career as a kitten-killer from the reaction I got from colleagues at work.

People insisted that I must have decided to get rid of it because I had an addition to it from which I was trying to free myself. Others asked how I managed to "cope" when visiting other people who had a TV. Did I asked them to turn it off? Was I offended? Did I just stop visiting people?

(the answer to all the above being No - makes no difference to me if other people watch TV, just as it makes no difference if they have a Black & Decker Workmate, a Renault Laguna, or a deep wool carpet, all things which I similarly do not desire myself, but don't object to others enjoying.

So, OP, I know how you feel.

C635

Three Seasons

Legs.Eleven wrote: »

I don't need to do those things though and didn't we all get by perfectly fine without them? I can wait 'till I get home. I have an mp3 player already. I'll admit the google maps thing appeals but not enough to fork out for one.


Doesn't it bug anyone else that many people seem to have their faces stuck in them most of the day even when talking to them? It's a bit rude, no?

You will have one, give it time. Everyone I know who had your exact attitude now has a smartphone and "don't know how they lived without one". You'll join that group, it's just a matter of time.

Legs.Eleven

Three Seasons wrote: »

You will have one, give it time. Everyone I know who had your exact attitude now has a smartphone and "don't know how they lived without one". You'll join that group, it's just a matter of time.

Begone you harbinger of doom! Begone!! :eek:

krudler

dark crystal wrote: »

I'm with you OP. I don't have a smartphone, not do I have any desire for one.

Maybe if you need one for work, I could understand, but the whole obsession with pointless apps and having the internet everywhere you go - I just don't get it!

My fella has one and he's never off the flippin' thing. It's a pain in the ass.

No all apps are pointless, right now I can pull out my phone, transfer money to my credit card, search and book a flight over to my parents place, book a rental car if I need one and pay the toll price to get up to dublin before I leave, and arrange a hotel and transport to the airport.

on a phone.
That's mad no matter what way you look at it, I find it funny that the people who decry smartphones the most are the ones who don't own or want one. Course there's pointless uses for them but nobodys forcing you to do anything, you can get a perfectly good android phone for 100 quid and do tons of stuff that's really handy to have if you're stuck, yay for options.

Legs.Eleven

Conway635 wrote: »

I feel your . . bewilderment.

I too am viewed as something skin to a serial killer for making a domestic-technology choice that most other people don't agree with.

Now, unlike you, I do have a smartphone. Love it. Wouldn't be without it. But absolutely and totally accept anyone else's choice to love/hate do with/without whatever. If your current phone is right for you, it's right for you.

I got rid of my television a year or so ago, after I found myself watching it less and less over the years. i gradually got to the point where I would only use it every three weeks or so, and eventually the benefit of decluttering won over the small amount of utility I still got from the TV.

Now, I'm not a media-phobe. Far from it. I get a lot of news and current affairs from radio and the web, and entertainment from books and the odd DVD on my laptop. But I just fell out of love with live TV as a device.

You would think I had announced a career as a kitten-killer from the reaction I got from colleagues at work.

People insisted that I must have decided to get rid of it because I had an addition to it from which I was trying to free myself. Others asked how I managed to "cope" when visiting other people who had a TV. Did I asked them to turn it off? Was I offended? Did I just stop visiting people?

(the answer to all the above being No - makes no difference to me if other people watch TV, just as it makes no difference if they have a Black & Decker Workmate, a Renault Laguna, or a deep wool carpet, all things which I similarly do not desire myself, but don't object to others enjoying.

So, OP, I know how you feel.

C635

I don't own a tv either. I understand completely. It's the genuine scoffing I can't abide.

Legs.Eleven

Legs.Eleven wrote: »

I don't need to do those things though and didn't we all get by perfectly fine without them? I can wait 'till I get home. I have an mp3 player already. I'll admit the google maps thing appeals but not enough to fork out for one.

I couldn't be without one now, we got on ok before them but people got on ok without electricity, without computers, without the internet etc so should people not bother with these too.

Smartphones are one of the greatest inventions of modern times, I cant imagine not having one now. I have to send my phone back to apple for a warranty repair and I'm dreading being without it. How can I keep constant track of sports I'm following, check facebook and twitter, bet on the move, check emails, quickly look things up online, free text people outside the country without what's app etc etc.

Sofiztikated

So you have what, actual conversations with people?

How do you instagram pictures of mediocre food, while saying its the best meal evarrrrr?

How do you take selfies with your besties?

Can you actually find your way anywhere?

How can you breathe without an app to remind you?

Peregrine

I'd never be able to live without a smartphone.

WiFi and data is brilliant, it gives me free texts (use your 600 free webtexts..on you phone!), Viber and Skype gives me free calls to most people I call.
Browser means you can find out anything whenever you want, it's great for me cos I Google everything.

GPS is probably one of the handiest inventions ever to be available on a mobile phone, I can always always find out where I am and go where I want, it's brilliant if you live in a city.

Music on your phone..come on you can't do that on an old Nokia 3210.

Camera is as good as a digital camera.

I even love my Alarm Clock App that won't shut up unless I do a maths sum! Plus it goes off at the same time Mon to Fri.

I'd rather a smartphone than walk around with an mp3 player, sat nav, camera, phone and a laptop.

Use a smartphone for a month, you won't want to part with it.

Guy:Incognito

Legs.Eleven wrote: »

I don't need to do those things though and didn't we all get by perfectly fine without them? I can wait 'till I get home. I have an mp3 player already. I'll admit the google maps thing appeals but not enough to fork out for one.


Doesn't it bug anyone else that many people seem to have their faces stuck in them most of the day even when talking to them? It's a bit rude, no?

People got by without mobiles before too so why have one at all ? Same with lots of things.

DerekDGoldfish

The main reason I havent switched to a smart phone is I dont want to be one of those people who needs to recharge thier phone every 2 minutes, It appears every smart phone user is constantly rusing from location to location as fast as possible to re-charge thier phone in case they might have to go a few hours without playing angry birds or tweeting about thier latest ****e.

Legs.Eleven

Chris Witty Resort wrote: »

I couldn't be without one now, we got on ok before them but people got on ok without electricity, without computers, without the internet etc so should people not bother with these too.

Smartphones are one of the greatest inventions of modern times, I cant imagine not having on now. I have to send my phone back to apple for a warranty repair and I'm dreading being without it. How can I keep constant track of sports I'm following, check facebook and twitter, bet on the move, check emails, quickly look things up online, free text people outside the country without what's app etc etc.

Fair enough. I suppose I know myself and I don't want that kind of reliance on technology for things that can wait 'till I get home. Creating a need where there isn't one. I spend a fair amount of my spare time on the internet while at home (I'm not at home much) but I the fact that when I leave the house I'm having a break from it and live my life like a relatively normal, adjusted human being.

I CAN see how it could be handy but it hasn't got to the point where I feel I need it yet.

krudler

Nimrod 7 wrote: »

I'd never be able to live without a smartphone.

WiFi and data is brilliant, it gives me free texts (use your 600 free webtexts..on you phone!), Viber and Skype gives me free calls to most people I call.

GPS is probably one of the handiest inventions ever to be available on a mobile phone, I can always always find out where I am and go where I want, it's brilliant if you live in a city.

Music on your phone..come on you can't do that on an old Nokia 3210.

Camera is as good as a digital camera.

Browser means you can find out anything whenever you want, it's great for me cos I Google everything.

I even love my Alarm Clock App that won't shut up unless I do a maths sum! Plus it goes off at the same time Mon to Fri.

I'd rather a smartphone than walk around with an mp3 player, sat nav, camera, phone and a laptop.

That "ohh I already have all those" oh..you have 6 devices or one device that probably does everything they all do. on the flip side I dont own an mp3 player, it'd be pointless since my phone IS an mp3 player

Legs.Eleven

Guy:Incognito wrote: »

People got by without mobiles before too so why have one at all ? Same with lots of things.

I suppose the fact that every one got one meant you were excluded from things and missed out on things because you didn't have one. Twas the reason I eventually got one. It'll probably be the same with Smart Phones eventually, I suppose.

irish bloke

Legs.Eleven wrote: »

I don't own a tv either.

Ah jeasus, your must be a hippy so??

krudler

Legs.Eleven wrote: »

Fair enough. I suppose I know myself and I don't want that kind of reliance on technology for things that can wait 'till I get home. Creating a need where there isn't one. I spend a fair amount of my spare time on the internet while at home (I'm not at home much) but I the fact that when I leave the house I'm having a break from it and live my life like a relatively normal, adjusted human being.

I CAN see how it could be handy but it hasn't got to the point where I feel I need it yet.

You can do that even if you do own a phone? You're not bound by oath to have your face stuck in it all day ya know

DerekDGoldfish

DerekDGoldfish wrote: »

The main reason I havent switched to a smart phone is I dont want to be one of those people who needs to recharge thier phone every 2 minutes, It appears every smart phone user is constantly rusing from location to location as fast as possible to re-charge thier phone in case they might have to go a few hours without playing angry birds or tweeting about thier latest ****e.

If you charge them every night they will easily last a full day unless you are using it very heavily for watching videos, using it as a wireless hotspot etc.

Legs.Eleven

irish bloke wrote: »

Ah jeasus, your must be a hippy so??

Ehhh...more to do with the fact that Spanish television is pure crud and I'd rather spend my money on Jaffa Cakes.

krudler

DerekDGoldfish wrote: »

The main reason I havent switched to a smart phone is I dont want to be one of those people who needs to recharge thier phone every 2 minutes, It appears every smart phone user is constantly rusing from location to location as fast as possible to re-charge thier phone in case they might have to go a few hours without playing angry birds or tweeting about thier latest ****e.

That's cos people leave everything on all the time and it drains the battery in a few hours, one of the girls at work was whinging her iphone wasnt lasting a day, she had wifi (no wifi in the building) on, bluetooth on, both ringtones and vibrate even though it was on the desk in front of her, push notifications for everything etc etc. you can turn all those off and it'll last way longer.

partyatmygaff

I don't see the point of complaining about it and making a point of not getting a smartphone. As it stands now, the cheapest smartphones aren't really any more expensive than your standard feature phone from Nokia. If all you want to do is talk and text, use a calendar and play the occasional game of Snake, any smartphone can do that and then some.

It's not as if being more versatile makes them less able to do the basics.

dxhound2005

I do not own a cellphone of any description smart or otherwise. I don't feel excluded from any loop.

Legs.Eleven

krudler wrote: »

You can do that even if you do own a phone? You're not bound by oath to have your face stuck in it all day ya know

Many people are addicted to their phones to the point that they can't converse with the people around them properly. It becomes a little more obvious when you don't have one.

dark crystal

krudler wrote: »

No all apps are pointless, right now I can pull out my phone, transfer money to my credit card, search and book a flight over to my parents place, book a rental car if I need one and pay the toll price to get up to dublin before I leave, and arrange a hotel and transport to the airport.

on a phone.
That's mad no matter what way you look at it, I find it funny that the people who decry smartphones the most are the ones who don't own or want one. Course there's pointless uses for them but nobodys forcing you to do anything, you can get a perfectly good android phone for 100 quid and do tons of stuff that's really handy to have if you're stuck, yay for options.

I can do all that stuff on my laptop at home, why would I need to do it while I'm out shopping? I have yet to ever be in a situation where I'm so stuck, I've cursed not having a smartphone to help me out.

An actual phone call usually does the trick if I have some sort of mini emergency whilst out and about.

DeanAustin

dxhound2005 wrote: »

I do not own a cellphone of any description smart or otherwise. I don't feel excluded from any loop.

Love the idea of that to be honest but, as much as I hate them, mobile phones are very useful if someone needs to reach you.

That said, I lost my phone for a week a while back. The only messages I had when I found it were from a golf club telling me about their latest competition and my manager's manager being a cheapass looking to borrow something off me...perhaps I don't need it after all. :eek:

BillyMitchel

Same OP, couldn't give a crap about phones. Mine is about 7 years old. Thing is I sort of cheat, I'd prob use my iPod touch more than my phone these days.

0ph0rce0

krudler wrote: »

That's cos people leave everything on all the time and it drains the battery in a few hours, one of the girls at work was whinging her iphone wasnt lasting a day, she had wifi (no wifi in the building) on, bluetooth on, both ringtones and vibrate even though it was on the desk in front of her, push notifications for everything etc etc. you can turn all those off and it'll last way longer.

No point in having a phone that does everything if you turn all those features off.

Basically your iPhone or android phone turns into to a nokia 3210

And the iphone/android clowns who say ooooohhhhhhhhhhhh look how great it looks thats why i bought it, and then go put a case on it 3 times the size of the phone :rolleyes: