What do you mostly use your cell phone for?

When I lived in Spain, my mobile was used for in and outcoming calls. Pay-per-use kind of thing, really. When I got to the US, pay-per-use wasn't even out there yet, but I didn't really need a phone with the landline options my parents have. Overseas, my father used it for internet connection b/c it was cheaper than actually using a landline. I was about 16 at the time.

I needed a phone when I went to college -- landline or not. I didn't need to open a landline account at my dorms and pay the rediculous amount of money there. I could easily call my parents esp. with the mobile-to-mobile free option. Once US phones started catching up with the European phones, they became more convinient. Long distance calling is cheap, I move a lot, so I don't have to always change my number. If I'm lost, I can call who ever I'm going to see to get directions.

I work at a place where traffic is fairly slow (at a store) and so I play games and find it entertaining. I hate talking on the phone, and it seems like a waste to pick up and call for a "btw" thing you can just text. (get unlimited txt's).

I didn't really care for the hip ring tones or anything like that, but since I got my new phone, it's useful for knowing who is calling. Kind of an auditory caller ID feature. I know how fast I need to run to the phone if it's in another room.

I thought the walkman/iPod phones were kind of stupid, but then I got one as a gift, and I don't use it that much (the earbuds are awful), it's entertaining at the airport, and you carry less crap around with you.

I use the calendar more now because I don't tote a purse and a calendar with it. Easier at the Dr's office. Had I not been given this phone (Sony Ericsson w600i) -- I probably would still be with my ol' phone that did nothing but had a colour screen and came "free" with my 2yr contract). The pics are surprisingly clear when you put them on the computer. the whole megapixel gives an incredible amount of clarity.

But, yeah, I hate when my friends put me on hold to check their txt's while they're talking on the phone with me, or customers (I work at a coffee bar) that come up with their Blutooth headset. But then again, cell phone users aren't rude, it just adds a whole new level of rudeness to people who were rude in the first place.

I still can't get into browsing.

I have an LG6100. It's not the fanciest or the sexiest phone out there, but for me it is a very convenient device to own.

I take pictures. Not the best quality at 330KP, but it gets the job done when it's all you have.

I put my schedule in it to keep me on time for my appointments.

I use the alarm for a variety of purposes.

The clock provides nearly perfect time at all times. World time is a nice feature.

Text messaging is very convenient and a money saver.

The calculator is always handy.

Notepad and Voice Memo often come in handy.

The phone book is essential.

Oh, and I also use it to make phone calls. It's a radio and like all radios, the signal varies with conditions, but most of the time, it does just fine.

I love my cell phone.

I call my Treo my electric brain because I use it to keep up with things I need to remember. I use it as phone, camera, PDA, alarm clock, and occaisionaly entertainment system (reading or music, no games).

I found the survey totally inadequate since I was not allowed to give more than one response. I clicked on the first thing I use it for and expected to be able to click on another, but then I clicked another time or two thinkng I had missed the box when a check did not appear. So I probably skewed the survey towards the camera response.

I realize that we are not typical mobile phone users. For us our primary need here is to maintain communication links while we are on the road in our motorhome. Typically we are gone for weeks at a time and it is important to stay connected with our home base. The mobile phone and our laptop computer provide great coverage for us.

The constant stream of added gimmicks is viewed by us as the ongoing marketing efforts designed to keep potential customers interested in buying the latest models. Games, music, text msg, stock reports, internet, photography, etc., are cute gimmicks but of little interest to us. Perhaps as some of these innovations mature into real applications our interest will be peaked but for now that has not happened.

well, GPS is useful, but other than that, i use it to prop up a short leg on my coffee table.

I purchased a fully optioned phone (MP3 player,camera, video cam, etc.) to find out that the only useful function is the phone.
I wish someone would make a phone with a streamed internal answering machine storage(not having to call a voice mail number).

I recently had to buy a new watch, I bought a silly watch I can hardly make out the time, therefore, I now use my Cell Phone I can read it perfectly.

Hellooo: It is a phone! Remember when they were used just to make calls? There is a reason why all the cell phone carriers are adding all the "Xtras", to drain your wallet or purse faster!!!
I will admit one xtra that is nice to have - GPS directions that are voice guided through the phone. A Garmin can cost $750.0 plus. With my carrier it is only $10.00 per month. A bit of simple math and you can see why I like this affordable option.
As a road warrior I can be anywhere in the country. Why pay Hertz extra for the same thing??!
Martin

_I can't understand the quasi religion of the cell phone. Is it that people feel so isolated they need an electric umbillical cord?
They constantly fool with the phones as though they were prayer beads. Limit the use of cell phones, and the users behave as though their religion was slandered.
Phone folks evangialise the intrusion of phone noise as a requirement of civilisation. No matter that all that cacaphony has no meaningful value.
They will go to any lenth to justify their phone use. That is clear proof the phone god is of little value. The users leap to answer hopeing for a revelation.
I am shure that for some the revelation is that they are addicted. Need profe, hide their phone. Be advised, this is very dangerous! Even the sugestion of turning the phone off for just a little while will cause hysteria.
What to do? I have no Idea. Even Prozac has little efect. Dr. Hoo

I use two phones. One is T-Mobile with about 300 minutes for use in rural areas. The other is a Verizon EVDO with only internet. This is my primary phone, as I use Skype on my Pocket PC. I also have a SkypeIn number in case people call me. Now that Skype is free, I have unlimited minutes. So this way, the primary function of my phone is internet data, not regular voice calls.

Other than A.G. Bell's originally envisioned use as a real-time, person-to-person voice transmitter, I haven't the least interest in my RAZR's plethora of ''talents'' - excepting the camera function. I do not take-send ''fun fotos of friends'' or other trivial usages; however, the one example of its utility I offer proves the point.

Recently, I experienced what appeared to be the most minor of automobile incidents - bumper-kissing - when the vehicle ahead of me abruptly stopped when halfway through a slow-mo merge. Although it was immediately obvious that nothing was damaged on the sedan before me, I nonetheless exchanged insurance info, etc. w/ the driver (The police refused to come to the scene since there weren't any injuries, damages, or raging-bull behaviours, hence no official Report was entered into the Record.). As a near afterthought, I snapped several photos of the other vehicle's rear, license plate prominent in each. Good thing I did, because as it turned out, she/they attempted to defraud my Insurer by claiming extensive damages AND physical injuries to driver and occupants !

Time-Date stamped photos transmitted to my insurer via Net w/ my written accounting proved more than sufficient to halt the crime-in-progress, they proved sufficient to pursue the perps' prosecutions in Court by State Farm Insurance.

Yeah, just like insurance itself, it may seem expensively unnecessary; but, it takes only the one time for it to prove itself invaluable.

A cell phone is primarily just that-you use it to make and receive phone calls, not to play games etc. Why is it that every review I read about a particular cell phone only talks about all the features it has such as games, music etc. I only want to know how well it receives and transmits calls but they never address that. What gives?

Charlie