Android Smartphone here, plus I'm also currently using a Xoom too.

Heh,

My missus recently got a Samsung Galaxy which, shock-horror, she mostly uses like a regular mobile and doesn't spend hours playing games, googling and twitbooking.

When she got it, I read some reviews of it which commonly cited "poor battery life" as one of the major issues.

The way my missus uses hers, she has to charge it up about twice a week, if that.

I have a smartphone. To be honest I use it for data *far* more than I use it for phone calls.

I actually feel unhealthily passionate about not wanting a smartphone. I have all kinds of people telling me I should get one, and admittedly the phone I do have is rubbish but that's because I picked a super cheap one

My main reasons for not wanting one are:
- cost - my bill is £10 a month for something like 500 texts and 100 anytime minutes, which I never get anywhere near exceeding
- fragility - I drop my phone all the time, and I chuck it into bags and onto chairs
- just the sheer time-consuming nature of a smartphone. I know if I had one I'd be checking stuff all the time - I'd become addicted. It would become exhausting. I quote Drew Barrymore's character in He's just not that into you for an example:


And I also get uppity at spending a night with friends and they all spend their time updating their facebook statuses or messaging people or generally doing anything other than spending time with the people they're with at that moment in time. It's rude. Yes I play with my phone - but mostly sliding it up and down cause I like doing that

I have a smartphone and I since having it i don't think i could live without it.

I have a smartphone don't think i could cope with a phone that had no internet.

It's hard to imagine.

Same

Can't do without the interwebs

My first smartphone was an HTC Blue Angel. Got it in 2003 and have had smartphones ever since. Currently have an HTC Sensation.

I'm crap with phones and usually drop them or something so thought I'd get myself a cheaper Android phone to see how long it lasts. So far, so good.

Wouldn't know what I'd do on the go without all these apps & what not now, very useful.

This! But they're becoming hard to find if you don't want a cheap one. But My Nokia C3 is great, slim, sexy and pushes all the right buttons. Bit like me!

I've gotta admit to just doing a bit of mild trolling in the phone forum because there's a load of herberts arguing about Apple and Samsung patents...it's a phone people!

Yep, smartphone here too, and disturbingly attached to it.

Maps of places I'm in that I don't know (plus Yelp and other recommendation things), public transport timetables, Kindle app, email, internet (useful for pub discussions among other things), mp3 player, Twitter, camera that auto-uploads my pics...oh, and texting and calling, I guess. Cheap at the price I pay.

I've only got a Blackberry for emails and the odd occasion for the alarm. I don't care about apps Facebook, Twitter etc...

Normal phone. Apps and gadgets are wasted on me, I just can't be bothered with them. I don't know why people can't just be satisfied and content with technology as it is. It has to stop sometime surely?!!

That's probably similar to what some people said about making fire when matches were invented.

Lol, I'm sure your right. I just find it exhausting trying to keep up. Plus the new stuff isn't always better than the old stuff which bugs me. What on earth was wrong with records and cassettes??? Tomorrows World lied when they said CDs were indestructable!

We're alright now arent we? Surely we have enough!!

At least a CD doesn't get wiped clean if you pass too close to a speaker or anything magnetic.

New technology isn't always about making things better, it is often about making things more convenient. CDs had the advantage of not needing to be rewound and you could skip a track instantly. Technically CDs were better than cassettes in many ways where as with MP3s they have the advantage that you can store thousands of tracks on a memory card smaller than a postage stamp but at the cost of being lower quality than a CD. So the MP3 is more of a convenience advantage rather than a technical quality advantage.

Smart phones have many technical advantages over old phones but while you gain with the new things you can do you also loose out with a shorter battery life and less rugged design. They also have the issue that you can't use a lot of them with gloves on which is a pain this time of year.

Still got a Motorola Razr & Nokia 3310.

As long as it works, I couldn't careless for smartphones.

BlackBerry user here.

Wouldn't be without it now. It's actually the first phone I've had that hasn't had to be repaired or have problems with that I couldn't solve.

Love having the keypad too. Emails on the go. Brilliant!

Hence I love my old-skool candy-bar Nokia with large font enabled and predictive text that works well.

I'd lust over a modern smartphone, but as it would need me to wear reading glasses, I can't be bovvered.

Maps and timetables would be the killer apps for me.

I'm on the MB tariff, I can never make a call until Simon Says.

I lived in fear of that until writeable optical disks arrived. Of course I keep mine in the dark to stop them rotting (and it seems to be a success).

That's because 'phone' does not really describe a device that allows you to: surf the net, check emails, watch videos, listen to music, internet radio, gives you maps, acts as a sat nav, read documents (xls, doc, txt, pdf), take photos, record video footage, acts as a book reader, watch tv, record audio. etc

I have had a smartphone for 2 years, but until last week I might have said I would go back to a simple one as I use it so rarely. Then I got lost in Amersham without a map. I thought I'd try out the Google Navigation. Briliant!! No need for a separate satnav. I'm sure it has other uses also.

Normal phone! I have a Blackberry, but I don't use it anymore.