How do you feel about owning a cell phone?

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How do you feel about owning a cell phone? Has it made life easier for you, or does it overwhelm you? Sometimes I feel over-stimulated by apps popping up at me, emails, texts, calls, etc. The idea of always being connected to the net and people sort of overstimulates me too.

Initially I had wanted to just own a real good computer and do all of my communications over it, with Google Voice as my phone.

When I was younger my mom would buy me Trac Phones and add pre-paid minutes to them so I could use it in case of an emergency. I always kept the phone off, lol.

What confuses me too about cell phones is gaming. There have been some decent game releases and re-releases, but wouldn't you think by now we'd have some sort of gaming cell phone model with a controller?

I'm clumsy and easily drop / break things too so I was always weary of buying a good cell phone. That and I don't like spending a lot of money.

Right now I'm using an Xiaomi in the US (a Chinese phone) because it was so cheap, but still a decent quality phone. Plus the screen is huge which is good for me, I have a hard time reading and touching little screens (it is sort of like a tablet phone hybrid). From what I've researched online, Xiaomi is the equivalent of Apple over in China or something.

I think one benefit of the cell phone is being able to text and knowing people will read it. I just am bad at keeping an actual conversation going via text. It is so informal so I get nervous having a serious conversation over text. I'm worried I might accidentally mis-interpret what the person meant and cause offense or cross a boundary.

Your not alone, I only have a phone so I can be contacted but I have it on silent all the time..... But I have progressed to having it on vibrate recently I can't abide it making noises. I also am rubbish at keeping a conversation going via text I will read it contemplate my reply then forgot to send it

If your not going to use it much or just for calls text just buy the cheapest thing you can that works well for you.

Sony did release a phone for gaming https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xperia_Play never used one though.

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I don't have a cell phone. I can't stand ringing things begging for my attention.

I have one but I don't like it. It makes me jumpy and anxious. I've never really liked talking on the phone, and while I prefer to text, rather than talk.. I don't like it much better.

But I think it's good to have one.

I think the biggest problem is that everyone else expects you to keep your phone at all times, and respond to them in short periods of time. I just try to warn people that I won't be doing that.

I like my cell phone but I don't know when its appropriate to contact people and I feel I get in trouble with it.

A necessary evil, to spend money on, but when you really need one, the money is cash well spent.

I currently have a POS Kyocera that is everything but a cellphone, and a bigger POS ZTE with a cracked screen that is my cellphone. The ZTE's processing and camera specs are about on par with a Galaxy S-4, but everything else sucks about it.

The next one I get will most likely be a Galaxy S-5, because I want a waterproof phone like the above mentioned Kyocera, with a removable/prepaceable battery, which the ZTE does not have.

About the only people I call are my parents & I text my girlfriend a lot when we're apart. I like being able to check email on it, browse the web alittle & listen to music on it when traveling. What I really don't like about it is that I need a phone with a physical keypad & the droid4 is the best android phone with one & alot of the newer phones have better specs. It also p!sses me off that Verizon rose the price of my data plan by $20 a couple months ago.

I don't mind it for emergencys ect but i get made fun of at work for owning the old nokia and constantly getting asked why not up grade your phone but it does what i need it calls people does messages has decent mp3 player and camera and the battery lasts all week without charging and most of these aps on these newer phones that tell you what the ski resort snow fall is going to be ect just seem like aps for aps sake just to sell phones and waste batteries and i'm on pay as you go as I'm paying for home broadband as part of my satelitte tv package so i don't want to pay more to have internet on my phone as there is nothing that important online that can't wait till i get home to look at on a proper sized screen .Dinosaur and proud at 42

I deliberately choose to have a basic phone that's only good for making and receiving calls and texts, but doesn't have all the bells and whistles like internet, apps, etc. I don't want a smartphone. I don't like the idea of being able to be bothered by communications and alerts everywhere I go.

I grew up in an era when people only had one landline phone in their home, and not even answering machines were in domestic homes for decades of my early life. If someone wanted to get hold of you they phoned your house. If you weren't in they tried again later and you never knew until you were there to pick it up. Life still managed to go just fine. If there was an emergency out and about, there were public phones. We still all survived.

I like the internet but I'm content to only get to use it when at home. I don't need to carry it around with me. I'm still not particularly happy that someone can phone me anywhere I go.

And I think other people are incredibly rude with their usage around others. I don't appreciate being somewhere having a conversation with someone and suddenly their phone rings and that's the priority. Nobody lives in the actual moment anymore -- there's always something more interesting happening on their phones. That's not a world I used to live in.

Bird in Flight, you mirrored my cell phone sentiments almost exactly, with a few differences.

I like always having a camera with me, especially as a visual notepad. I dislike that anytime something interesting happens, people don't actually experience it in the moment. Instead they all stand with their cameras held in front of them & then busily send the image off to be posted. Meanwhile, they didn't actually experience that moment or event!

I like having a phone on me for emergencies, or even the possibility of emergencies. But I held off as long as I could because I abhor telephones. They make APD ten times worse and no matter how I try to explain it, even my siblings get frustrated with me when I can't understand what they are saying. Doesn't help that people don't *think* when they are on the phone, don't stay still once they find a spot of good reception, and seem to avoid actually talking INTO the microphone.

I use an old HTC G2, mostly b/c I bought a half dozen on eBay for cheap to work on a hardware data collection project. I fried the usb interface on two of them with the project, fixed one & use it daily, gave one to my spouse and lost one. That should give a fair idea of how - unlike most NT's from what I've seen - "precious" a cell phone is to me.

I have one but I don't text a lot on it. I just use it to check WP during school breaks.

I have a phone, but I don't really use it like a phone, more like a mini-tablet :p
Seriously though, I never hardly ever make phone calls or text people.