INCREDIBLE DISCOVERY: You can live without your smartphone

[MIPS]

I have an HTC Dream. It's the first consumer Android Phone. It runs EZ Gingerbread.
It's next to unuseable because everything assumes you are running something newer. Even starting the Maps app causes the phone to simply turn off and reboot.
Short of the barcode app, I can live without a smartphone easily.

[Android phone]

On the fourth of this month I dropped $100 on the two-year upgrade thing, bought myself the new Atrix. I fucking love this phone. I foresee myself using it much longer than two years unless it dies unexpectedly.

[fruxodaily]

I think I should drop In and say I Use my phone everyday for music, text, calls, web browsing and apps. Its handy to have one

But nothing beats the old bricks

[Mister B]

I barely even use the phone part of my phone - it's mostly an entertainment device.

It's really nice to have a music player, gaming device, web surfing..thing, and yes, phone, all in one device. It's the only thing in my pocket, next to my wallet.

[editline]24th August 2012[/editline]

I do use the phone features fairly often, just not as often as everything else. :v:

[PvtCupcakes]

article written by nerd who makes a living writing articles about computers which are read by people who sit in front of a computer for 12 hours a day.

as if gizmondo had any credibility.

[Elspin]

[QUOTE=RichyZ;37397611]i remember getting my first smartphone, i was like "holy shit i can do so much shit with this"
now i just use the alarm, texting, and emails[/QUOTE]

"Aww man, my phone can just email, browse the internet, and text anywhere"

[AlphaWeeaboo]

I don't really own a smartphone but I own a nothing special cellphone+an iPod Touch so I would count that as a smartphone if put together. I honestly rarely find myself using either of them. Then again, I don't have anyone to text nor find any interesting in texting. I prefer calling in most cases.

[Elspin]

[QUOTE=RichyZ;37397756]i mean, it has a bunch of other cool shit you can do, but i just end up checking email when on the shitter, using the alarm, and texting every now and then[/QUOTE]

I know, I'm just joking. I have a Galaxy Nexus :v:

[Dori]

I get a lot of use out of my smart phone. idk what you guys are doing wrong

[Soleeedus]

tracfone master race

[viperfan7]

[QUOTE=krazipanda;37388868]I have a galaxy sII but it's hardly ever charged, most of the time I use it to just call people when necessary and not much else.

I rooted it and got custom roms and the like even though I won't use the new applications or anything, just because I wanted a semi transparent options menu :v:[/QUOTE]

cyanogen mod for FLAC only

[Pocket Medic]

I don't even have a mobile v:v:v

[sltungle]

I've only had mine for a little while and I love the thing already.

Whenever I'm out of credit (bought mine outright, don't like contracts), or if somebody is on msn/facebook that I want to talk to anyway, I simply talk to them on there (I rarely ever come anywhere close to using all 500mb of data).

I have a few sciencey apps on it that I use for uni (periodic droid is pretty damn useful), a graphics calculator app (which is good because my graphics calculator is dying). Comes in pretty handy.

Could I live without it? Sure - I did for long enough. Would I want to? Pfft. No.