Do you own a cell phone?

[Restola]

I am interested in knowing how many peple have cell phones. Actually how many people dont (which i guess will be a smaller number). Its weird how this technology has exploded.

[Flamebo]

I got one, and I hate it...

[zvanut]

i dont

[bornl33t]

I do, I have 2.. heh

[graycie]

i have one, but its not attached to my ear

[Miscue]

I had one, lost it. Never replaced it because I didn't miss it.

[Mega Man]

I don't have one.......yet. But i'm getting one for Christmas! my cell phone and (hopefully if it comes out) the extreme body upgrade are my main presents!

[gimp]

I dont have one, and I'm never gonna get one either. I hate those stupid things.

[JRSJKD]

cell phones

I've got one. It's one of those things where once you have one you can't live without it, no matter how big a pain in the rear it is.....kinda like women My recomendation is, if you don't need one-dont get one....the phone that is

J.R.

[apache]

Where I'm from _everyone_ has one. And if the phone bothers you, get an answering service, put it in silent mode or use the power switch. It really is that easy

Do you have SMSs yet in the USA? (short text messages) How do they work and in what kind of networks? I'm interested in this from a professional point of view, I work between computer and phone networks.

[Cliffio]

i have one and i dont think i could live without it
im in college and really the ONLY want to get ahold of me is by my cell, cause im never home
so its great
and i have like the 6 billion minute plan from sprint

[bornl33t]

america is just coming around to the SMS stuff. I have it but never use it. with nation wide free long distance it's pointless. I had my E-mail set up to auto forward my E-mails to my phone so I could check for important E-mails before I got home. Also I used the E-mail to send grocery lists to the phone, beats carrying around a piecee of paper at walmart
My provider uses a tri band system. analog-900-1800 I believe. I'm really not shure since I haven't had to mess with it in a while. I'm pretty shure it doesnt work in Europe but won't find out till this may. ONe this I have to say, Europeans SUCK when it comes to cellphones, the fools all have the ringer so loud you can hear it accrost hte airport and then they talk into the thing even louder. No matter where you go there's constantly and I MEAN CONSTANTLY a cell phone going off. It's like they never heard of a vibrating phone. I can't live with the screeching going on all the time.
I'm home less then 8 hours a day, and that's mostly for sleep so I don;t even have a homephone. I have a line but no phone plugged in. I found that alot of places will not accept you're cell as a valid number to reach you and I also found out that telemarketers can't get ahold of you're cell too easy. Which they were the main reason for me to get rid of my homephone. When you can't sleep for longer then 2 hours without a telemarketer calling you have to resort to drastic meashures. I am booked for 1500 minutes a month and have yet to use them all up.

What's really kewl though is all the SMS features. You can even send SMS"s through ICQ AND reply to the SMS back to the ICQ user. So you can ICQ over you're phone on the road to grandmas house! When the WAP phone hit the states I'll be the first to get a hold of one

[apache]

I hope WAP does better in the US than it did on this side of the Atlantic. There were way too big expectations for it, the pricing and services just weren't on par with those at the time it was introduced. There is a great potential in WAP if the right services and user groups meet.

The SMS will change the way you use a phone in the US too, if the companies just don't overprice it. SMS delivery costs next to nothing after all.

[CoFFeY[NiTrO]]

All my older brothers have one but we don't get one until we get a car

2 more years....

[PyRo]

If someone wants to get me a christmass give you can get me a cell phone
For $40 a month, ill go find another phone