That is one sexy phone. I too miss flip phones, RIP Samsung S401i wherever you are.

First Nokia 3310, then Nokia 2100, but I really miss my Samsung D900, which made me realize how wonderful slider phones are. I still check ebay occasionally to maybe stumble on a box forgotten in some warehouse.

Was forced to upgrade to a Nexus 5 last year. It's so sad that it's impossible to buy a decent dumb phone anymore.

I'm surprised so many people claim they've never had a mobile phone. Either they never call anyone or receive calls, or fixed phone lines are still popular where they live?

I don't even recall the last time I've seen a fixed line phone here, maybe 10 years ago? Public phones are pretty much gone etc. So not having a mobile call basically means you won't be calling anyone, and no one will be calling you.

I admit though that much of correspondence goes via other channels anyway. I mainly call or text message (daily) only with my wife and occasionally (rarely) with some of my siblings, but e.g. all work related stuff goes through email, as does most stuff with my siblings, etc. And occasionally when I've called abroad, naturally I've used either Skype or VoipDiscount for that (no reason to pay roaming charges, they are insane). Sometimes I might call some bureau on official matters though.

So the legacy voice calling and text messaging has dwindled down somewhat. And I don't even do Facebook or WhatsApp or whatever there is nowadays.

You do realize that having a phone with you is not an obligation to answer every call you get, right? I certainly don't answer every call if I can't be bothered. Just as I do at home on my landline.

Yes, I have my phone with me almost all the time, so that people can reach me. But it's still my choice alone if I want to be reachable for a particular person at that particular time.

I keep my phone on silent so that I won't hear anything when it rings. If it's something important, they'll leave a message and I can call them back from my landline later. My landline is usually unplugged unless I want to make a call.
When I exchange my cell phone number with people and they ring it shortly so that I'll have their number as well, they are often baffled when they can't hear my cell phone ring. Because I leave it at home most of the time, negating the mobile aspect of mobile telephoning.

My first phone was an LG flip phone.

Second phone was a Casio G'zOne, which lasted me for 6 years and which my 12-year-old now has. Also a flip phone---ruggedized and still going strong. I only replaced it because changes in texting software meant I wasn't receiving texts sent from family members. Daughter uses the phone very rarely, mostly it's for when she's going places away from us or in large crowds where we might get separated. (Older daughter is glued to her iPhone4, younger daughter uses tablet.)

Third and current phone is a Kyocera Brigadier. Also ruggedized, so I don't use a case, and the sapphire screen hasn't scratched even though I tend to accidentally drop my keys in the same purse pocket with it. Also I no longer need to carry my mp3 player for audiobooks.

I'm the opposite from some other posters: I intentionally refused to set up voicemail on this phone. On my last phones, I found it to be faster just to do callbacks for recognized numbers and ask what they wanted, instead of calling the voicemail #, listening to the message, and then generally needing to call the person back anyway. For unrecognized numbers, I've realized they'll call back if they actually need to talk to me.

My first cell phone was an LG flip phone with no camera and very slow internet access. I got it while job hunting if I remember correctly. That was around 2007. I hated carrying it around along with my wallet and my ipod touch so decided early on that I would soon upgrade to a smartphone.

8 years later (my "soon" tend to be longer than the norm) I got myself a [url=http://www.lg.com/ca_en/cell-phones/g3?s_kwcid=TC|18468|g3||S|p|49104670839&gclid=CM-tz8bE78cCFUKRHwodIiEG6A]LG G3[/url]. I plan to disconnect my land line in a month.

I ordered a wallet style cover for it along with a screen protector.

Jimmy Kimmel trolls Apple fans:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=177&v=sfkbxzilVC4

Just went through my tech drawer and found my wife's old Nokia 101 sans charger.

Its pretty cool as it has a 2 sim slots. If I can find a charger for cheap it may just be my new phone.

It has a microSD slot so I can still play my music. Unlike my POS Iphone which wont even sync or let me install custom apps. Fuck apple and their hipster software bullshit.

I had many phones, starting from Motorola, which were big and heavy as bricks.

Even now I still have and use 3 cell phones, and it is a bit of nightmare with constantly charging them.

It took a while for my paents to finally get around to it. They hadn't used it in ages but were still paying the phone company.

Everyone I know save for some elderly folk, only use cell phones.

I still have a soft spot for novelty phones ^_^

My neighbors sister had this and i thought it was the coolest.

As with owning a computer, just as now with a smartphone, I was a late adopter with cellphones.

My first one was an Alcatel One Touch 311: http://www.dummy-sammler.de/pics/Alcatel%20OneTouch%20311.jpg

It didn't last me long alas, after some 3 years or so the battery was broken, but when I replaced the battery it was only another year before the phone itself broke down.

My second one was a Nokia 1100: http://www.nokiausers.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Nokia-1100.jpg

Very reliable phone and the battery lasts me almost a week. It stopped functioning well after 5 years or so, by which time it was out of production, so I bought one second hand.

This third one, the second hand Nokia 1100 I'm using still. The markings on the keyboard have faded, but I kept my original Nokia in a box and replaced the keyboard cover with the old one that remarkably wasn't faded.


This summer I bought my first smartphone, a Fairphone 2, which will leave the production line in november: https://www.fairphone.com/phone/

Fairphone is founded by a Dutchman, Bas van Abel, who was active lobbying for fairer and more sustainable production of smartphones, as they tend to be frequently replaced (I'm shocked as to how many phones some people in this topic have used over the years - think about all the energy and resources that went into it), taking up lots minerals that are often from conflict-zones. Plus the world is about to face mineral shortages as well as an overheating climate.

https://www.fairphone.com/about/

When Bas van Abel met reactions saying fairer more sustainable production can't be done, he decided to start producing one himself, creating the Fairphone company. Their pillars are fourfold: striving to get all minerals to be mined conflict-free (not by leaving miners in the Congo without work, but striving to work with mines that aren't controlled by warlords), a phone that's designed to be repairable: you can take it apart and replace modules that broke down, the phone is expected to last 6 years - it's an expensive high-end one though for that reason -. Third it will be produced with a keen eye to worker's conditions and worker's rights in the chinese factory they've made a deal with. Fourth they're trying to create a cyclic process where phones can be returned, refurbished or recycled to create new Fairphones, thus closing the loop so we don't have to plunder the earth so much.

I had decided I didn't really want a smartphone for fear of security risks (phone getting hacked or stolen), but I got so very enthusiastic by how this company is trying to make more sustainable and fair electronics, that I decided to buy one and I hope one day they will extend their values and methods to things like tablets, laptops and desktop computers.

So technically you might as well use a smartphone, because you've just distributed its capabilities over multiple devices... :D

Ah, but not all of the capabilities.... I never have to worry about being bothered by a phone call when I'm not at home, which is something I very much find to be a positive, not a negative....

It seems like the good thing about cell phones is that no matter where you are, you are in contact with anyone and the bad thing about cell phones is that no matter where you are, you are in contact with anyone...