Answer your fucking cell phone Kurado!
 

Vote! Anyway, I'm about to get a cell phone next week because it's become necessary. If this poll were made on a board with only Guatemalans, and probably all of Central America, I'd imagine at least 95 percent of people would have cell phones. Because of the prices most people I know in this country don't have lines at home, probably because you get charged for making calls. Ridiculous.

Funny when you see even the Mayan Indian people here striding by while talking on their cell.

I wouldn't be able to operate without a cell phone, and we don't even bother getting a landline for our apartment. With demands of work and communication with family and friends, nothing short of a cell is acceptable.

I've used one regularly since the mid 90s. I like being able to carry my phone numbers around with me, and I find SMS messages very useful too. My girlfriend doesn't use one, which I found slightly strange at first, but she's not going to be convinced to use one by me or anyone else... so I just had to get used to that.

I have a cell (mobile over here) phone but I hardly use it. I usually use it to check the time when I'm out. I only ever call or sms someone if I'm gonna be late to a particular event or something, just to let them know. I could definitely live without one but I guess it's pleasant enough to have in case of emergencies.

I just recently purchased a Sony Ericsson W810i and I'm happy with it. It has a nice design and functionality. I'm with a Rogers plan (also my broadband provider) with 200 anytime minutes. It came with a 1GB memory card plus I sent away for a free 4GB card. My only grievance with the phone is that Rogers screwed with it and it doesn't allow me to use unprotected MP3s as the ringtune which means I have to purchase them from Rogers at $3 a pop. Extremely annoying because I really want to use the Metal Gear Solid codec call as my ringtune. :(

Only my two best friends call me sporadically on the phone, and even so, only when they know I'm around school and not at home. On the whole, I use it mostly for the incredibly lifesaving calendar+reminder combination, as well as to show off the large squeezable monkey keychain I attached to it which is half the size of the phone itself. It's also hilariously convenient for checking when the bus comes.

Was I just tricked into hearing Skate's fucking voice, Devo? =/
That's exactly the phone I'm considering buying. What kind of memory does it come with?

And what the hell's SMS?

I got my first cell phone during a stay in San Francisco for Christmas/New Year's 2004, a Kyocera Slider with VirginMobile. That phone has since been abused and mutilated. This summer I switched to Cingular with the LG CU500. <3

Text messaging. =D

I have a cell and I use it as my primary phone. Never use the landline, since it's expensive and unecessary.

I get calls quite a bit, but I rarely answer the line if I don't recognize the number. In other words, I only talk to people who I know/know me.

I actually find SMS to be incredibly useful during the day, when you don't want to talk or make a call - just send someone a note or reminder~

I agree with Drex and Sassafrass in that I don't even bother with a landline. My cell phone's the easiest way to reach me. It's more reliable than e-mail.

Oh, and I could text for the entire country. And to think when I first got a cell phone, I thought text messaging was the most useless thing in the world.

I have a really cheap cell with T-Mobile, was less than $40 after the rebate. Mostly, I just use it to tell my ride when to pick me up. As a result I can get an entire year out of the pay-as-you-go plan for less than $50 a year...

Pretty sweet deal, I have to say! ;)

I have a RAZR V3C but I rarely use it. And when rarely, like once every 2 months unless an important event comes up and I have to use it.

Otherwise, I don't yak on my cellphone.

I've got one. Got a Black Chocolate. Obviously I have Verizon. I don't get why people hate the Chocolate though. It's not bad once you get used to it, but I have heard some of my friends bitch that it doesn't have the clicky feel that most cellphones should have.

I heard the biggest complaints with the chocolate was generally the sensitivity of the front button things.

I have a cheapo phone right now, but I'm eyeballing the KRZR for beginning of next year. I like the SLVR better, but it's buggy and as yet unreleased through Verizon, so I'll take what I can get.

The W810 uses Memory Pro Duo.

No, sorry. I meant how many MBs of space does it have. For music.

Cell phones are far more convenient. Anyone can reach you, anytime. You can (potentially) reach anyone, anytime. I don't even have a landline. Why bother? Cell phones rule!

I have a cell phone, though it's one of those pay-as-you-go types that you can add money and minutes to when you need it. I generally use it only for emergency purposes, or when someone wants to tell me something that'll take like a minute.

One of my friends on the other hand, has a cell phone that he never fucking answers for literally anyone.

Yeah, that's what i've been hearing... But it's not that big of a deal. <_<

People complain too much about small things.

Well my RAZR just recently broke (the screen stopped working) and it was withing 2 weeks of the 1 year manufacturer's warranty expiring, so I got a replacement phone for free. Yay.

Oh, and about people not having landlines... it bugs the living shit out of me, because my mother is one of them. She lives in a condo where it's more like an apartment complex so you have to call in to get access in through the main doors. Well she's technologically dysfunct enough that she doesn't know how to adjust her cell phone settings to "ring" because she has to keep it on either silent or vibrate mode all the time at work... and it bugs the fucking life out of me when she demands to come visit and I can't come up into the room because she doesn't know I've been calling her outside of her condo for the last 30 minutes.

It's prepaid. My dad got it for me a moving out gift this past June. I really don't use it that much, mainly because I only fill it with $10 a time (35 minutes), and when it gets used up I find I can't spare the cash for a few weeks.

Or, you know, I spend it on beer instead.

Considering I receive one phone call every week (I guess that tells you quite a bit about my social life), a cell phone wouldn't be too useful to me.

That alone should be sufficient reason for me not to bother with a cell phone, however, I feel I must also admit something else: there is absolutely nothing I hate, loathe, abhor and despise more than a cell phone ringing during class, or, to a lesser extent, pretty much anything of even remote importance. There is even something I've promised myself should I ever become a professor: whatever classroom I use will have an hydraulic press, provided with funds from my own pocket if need be, and in the very first lecture all students will be informed of the two choices available to them should they forget to turn off their annoying little toys and said toys start to emit whatever nauseating series of sounds. The first is to instantly drop the class I'm teaching and never come back. The second is to have me crush their little omnidirectional sludge pump in the aforementioned hydraulic press.

Well, a man can dream I guess.

I hate cellphones with a passion! However I may get one just for a emergancy, like if my car breaks down or something...

I need my phone fairly often. Whether it be friends, family or my students, people need to reach me. It also helps me out in a jam in a variety of situations.

I have a mobile. It's a Sagem myX5-2. I've had it for a little over two years now, it's getting old and slow though, so I'm thinking of a getting a new one in the new year, not sure what I'll be getting though.

I almost never use my phone, but I carry it, and I feel safer with it

The phone comes with about 20mb for all the default settings, apps, ringtunes, and contact list and other stuff. The memory card itself is what you'll be using to store MP3s for listening so really you're only limited by which size memory comes with the phone. I'm using my 1GB card solely for music and the odd photo I take.

Wait... don't they have that where you are? How about when you were in the US? It's a text message service. You can send short text messages to other cellphones. It stands for Short Message Service.

Hey, OO. Once you get your phone you'll be up for some conference calls, right?

I have a cellphone through cingular wireless. I use it for friends, work, and any important business calls I need to make. I heard my job might be giving me a phone strictly for business so I won't eat up my personal minutes on my phone when I use it to troubleshoot issues with someone back in the office.

I have a cellphone, but I don't like to use it for things other than two-way (walkie-talkie). Otherwise, it's pretty useless, as I am more inclined to use the landline above anything else.

JackyBoy: 1MB isn't so bad for a phone I guess. considering that's what it automatically comes with.

Soluzar, I just didn't recognize SMS at all. I had a suspicion it was something to do with text messages, but with no T in the acronym I wasn't sure. Yeah, they have there here. MENSAJES DE TEXTO.

Miles, of course. If for nothing else, the fact that I've speken to Tails and not you is enough of a reason.

I have no need for a landline since it's much easier to reach me on my cell phone during the day. I started using a phone in 2001 when my brother no longer needed his older model, but those were too bulky. I just had it with me in case of emergencies since I did a lot of walking to school during those days. None of my other friends had phones at that time, so I didn't receive many calls at all.

Nope. No cell phone for me. Actually kinda sucks, but I don't have the money to get a cell, and I am home for much of the day so my Lan phone is fine for me. Besides, I hate being available all the time and I would probably forget to turn it off when I went to class. Which would be very embarrassing if it went off during an exam or lecture....

I have a prepaid. I use it for quick calls while I'm out or if there's an emergency.

My first phone was a pre-paid, as was my second. What pieces of shit those are. I will never, ever use pre-paid again. It's fine if it's a phone just for emergencies, but nothing else.

I've been on a contract with Alltel for 7 years total -- two with my Mom and five on my own plan. I couldn't be happier with the service. Don't have a landline since that's pretty much unnecessary.

Now, I almost had a landline in my apartment because BellSouth forced me to get a landline/internet/cable combo package. Fortunately, Comcast didn't. In any case, I've no plans to get a landline until I own my own home. But cell phone are the way to go now.

I'm still using the first one I've ever owned. It's been handy in the past for taking calls while I was out of the house, but now that I'm in college it's almost a necessity, because I don't have a landline in my room. Also, my contract is about to run out with Verizon, which apparently means that I'm eligible to receive credit toward a new phone. Therefore, I'm planning on heading to the Verizon shop tomorrow and seeing if I can't score an LG VX8500 for not too much money.

I've had a Motorola ROKR for about a year now and it's the best phone I've ever had. I like it better than the Samsung t809 that my friend got me. It gets incredible reception everywhere I go, including Cabo San Lucas (just ask anyone here who got the phone call on Christmas Eve while I was tanked), allows me to do transfer all the shitty little pictures it takes via Bluetooth so that I never have to plug it in and since I clip all my MP3 ringtones on my own it also supports MP3 as ringtones. It's a pretty sweet phone considering I got it for free.

The only thing I don't like about it, really, is the fact that it only lets me put 100 songs into iTunes regardless of the size of the memory card. But then again, I have an iPod for that too.

I got a Nokia 6230i and use it for most calls, since my employer doesn´t mind.
I have a landline, but only because it came with the DSL package. Why use something fixed when you can have the same thing mobile?