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Could you live without your Mobile Phone for a whole month |
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if they nicked my phone then I'd have to call an ambulance to get them sectioned, I doubt anyone would give me £1 for it
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#52 |
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I've had all the technology from early Amstrad to latest smartphones but the novelty wore of a while ago.
I still would prefer a washing machine , central heating and a landline to a smartphone. |
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No I couldn't as I don't have a landline and my computer is broken
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No problem. I hardly ever use it as anything other than a phone. For any internet stuff I just wait until I get home.
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With the greatest of ease.
I use my laptop for online forums etc and my phone is so ancient it belongs in the Hull and East Riding museum. Without my mobile I would still have my laptop and my landline so would probably manage without texts. Some texts such as nameless Merry Christmas circulars are a bit silly anyway. |
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Yes.
I hardly use it. |
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I've had all the technology from early Amstrad to latest smartphones but the novelty wore of a while ago.
I still would prefer a washing machine , central heating and a landline to a smartphone. |
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Same here. The Windows phone version of the washing machine app is useless.
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I couldn't live without my phone but I could easily manage without TV for a month, perhaps longer. I had no TV during the summer and it was bliss
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I couldn't live without my phone but I could easily manage without TV for a month, perhaps longer. I had no TV during the summer and it was bliss
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Could you live without your Mobile Phone for a whole month
Easily. |
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I can't leave home without my tv
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Yes. I own a 10 year old mobile for emergency use only. Some years I don't use it at all.
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My work phone I could go without that for a whole year!
My personal phone - possibly. |
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I find the answers in this thread to be rather heartening.
Some people would have to be surgically removed from their phones but not as many as I would have thought. If you saw mine you would understand why. http://img.timeinc.net/time/photoess...la_dynatac.jpg |
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No.
I use mine for everything, so no phone, no texts, no messenger, no fb , no internet.. No! Its essential for me nowadays |
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I couldn't live without my phone but I could easily manage without TV for a month, perhaps longer. I had no TV during the summer and it was bliss
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I don't bother much with TV either. The tablet has all the necessary things.
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I have an Samsung S7 and use it for phoning (as it's cheaper than using my landline), texting and... umm... err.... not much else apart from the odd photograph. It's a nice little luxury I could do without for a year never mind a month but I'd have to go back to carrying my camera bag with me everywhere again "just in case".
The bonus of using it this way is that the battery lasts for 3 days between charges. |
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I often see comments like this and they're totally ridiculous, I'd argue that the phone does exactly what I ask of it and provides an incredible service to me, the phone is very much at my beck and call so the phone is therefore my slave.
Then you might need a hard copy map and/or compass. |
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Maybe at home, but it would take some adjusting. Probably not when I'm travelling.
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I don't have a mobile phone - I can manage perfectly well with my landline (I don't get out much!). I would need a mobile phone if I bought a car, in case of a breakdown. I would not like having to rely on public phones which are decidedly sparse.
One annoying thing is that many online forms ask you for your mobile number, and it is a mandatory field. So what do you do if you don't have one? I have been advised to put down a made up number such as 07897 654321. Not an ideal solution really. |
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What would you do if you're out, need to get to a new place and you don't know what bus to get or how to walk somewhere?
Not difficult at all. |
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Well I used to be able to read the A to Z but have you seen the size of it recently
- now where are my reading glasses. I have to travel around a lot for work and also live on a train route that has chosen not to run for the best part of a year so use TfL before I leave home, at the train station, when I get off the tube, getting onto the bus and then invariably googlemaps to do the last bit on foot. I only realised how inconvenient it is not to have any means of finding out live informatoin when my phone and tablet broke at the same time and I had nothing for a few days. Yes it's doable, of course it is. But it's a bit like another thread I have just read on this board about the tracing paper loo roll we had in the 70s. It does the job, just about but not efficiently or pleasantly. |
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No, I'd be lost. I have all my contacts in it, onlinebanking, emails & orders for my side business of baking. Plus taking pics of my child, family, nights out and again baking. Wouldn't want to have to get a camera out every time.
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For example, I was out early on Friday and wasn't going to be home til late, texted my son to make sure he took his key to school with him otherwise he'd be left on the doorstep. Texted my husband to remind him to walk the dogs because I usually do it and he wouldn't think of it and to remind him to feed them their tea before he went to work. Texted my son after school to make sure he he put his uniform in the basket and not leave on the floor for the dogs to chew and to be sure he locked up the house and left for his bus on time as he was going to my parents to help with their pc. I could leave notes but you can't be sure they'd be read, it's easier to text.
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- now where are my reading glasses.