If I'm meeting someone, I turn the ringer off - because I find it impolite to be interrupted by someone else's phone when I'm with them. I mean, that's what voicemail is for, surely. Unless they're expecting an urgent call, in which case fine. When I forget to turn my ringer off, I'm always amused at people's downright shock when my phone rings and I don't bother to answer it - we're such slaves :~).
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Don't have a smart phone. I could very easily live without a cell phone, and in fact wouldn't have a cell phone except that on the whole it's cheaper than having a land line on top of cells for the rest of the family (and I do want my wife and son to have cell phones so I can harass them whenever I feel like it).
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Are you kiddin? It's the right side of my brain... I have tons of data on it...I don't use the phone as much as I do the PDA functions. Checking mail is also important.
I'd say my phone / text use is 5-10% of total use.
My job can live if I turn it off. I only check work email so that when someone emails me I can respond quickly. It can wait, but this way the people that are total slackers can't say that they can't get ahold of me.
But I can do that with an iPad.
I downgraded to the $15/month plan because I was tired of paying so much per month. Now I watch my data usage like a hawk.
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it's not asking you to go off the grid, just relegate the FB etc communications to the computer when you can get in front of one.
But this is exactly why smartphones are great. My phone saves me hours of time at night. Instead of coming home, and getting on the computer for hours to catch up on personal emails and correspondence I can do it throughout the day.
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I have tons of data on it...I don't use the phone as much as I do the PDA functions. Checking mail is also important.
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