Life without your cell phone
What was life like before cell phones? What would you do if your cell was taken from you? 
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Yessssssss, pleassssssssssssssssssssse!!!!
Life without a cell: Heaven!!
I do not have a mobile phone and will certainly never have one.
I actually lost my cell phone somewhere in the snow 3 days ago. Except for not having my calendar with me for work (which is brutal), it's actually been kind of nice not being "available" 24/7.
De verdad, perdí my celular en la nieve hace tres dias. Además de no tener mi calendario para mi trabajo (que es brutal), realmente ha sido un poco bueno a no estar 'disponible' 24/7.
Correcciones, por favor.
If you mean one of these - no thanks.
My cell phone does not even take pictutres - can not connect the internet - has no keyboard - has no colour screen - no radio connection etc etc.
I don't know how I survive really.
The first portable phone I had weighed about 5 Kgs - had to be plugged into 240v and only worked in London.
Trust me, there used to be life without mobiles and there still is life without them! I would hardly be affected if my mobile was taken from me.
I only use my mobile if I'm on duty and have to be available 24/7 for three days in a row. After that, it is switched off and stays like that for weeks. I carry it in my purse and occasionally use it when I missed a train or am otherwise delayed.
Using them makes my ears buzz and glow, makes the area behind the ear painfull. I attribute that to a possible allergy or sensitivity to its radiation. A mobile also makes me act like a nervous idiot, since I can't seem to avoid checking the blasted thing every few minutes even though I'm perfectly aware that it didn't ring or buzz.
I don't get asked to tagg along with friends as often as when I did use it, since they all invite each other by text message. But I feel less stressed and healthier.
I'm a regular 'cell' user (I find the term, 'cell' strange....why do Americans use that word?), and life without the mobile phone would be not inconceivable but it would be slightly problematic. I'm not addicted to the mobile phone like many of my friends are.....but I'm dependent on it as I'm a usually on the move.
I have one but I do not use it so frequently, but when I was in college I was hooked to it..
No mobile phones! No tension!
On one project that I was assigned to I had to carry my company cell phone, my personal cell phone, a Nextell walkie talkie cell phone for the contractors, a pager, and use the field office phone with an answering machine while people called me on the fax machine line. Nowadays I just make calls online and forget cell and land lines.
Great, I get to disagree with everyone!
My mobile is essential, not at least when it comes to learning languages:
I've installed programs for reading books, comics, listening to audio, lots of dictionaries, watching TV series and movies, remembering vocabulary, chatting with natives..
And it works great! I can be reading book in Spanish (or French, in my case), and press a key to switch to the English version of the book; press again and continue reading. Click on a word to look it up immendiately in a dictionary, press a key to start and stop the audiobook (which I conveniently have) of the same book, etc.
If I didn't have my mobile with me to do those things, I'd have to sit down in front of one of those computer things. Yuck.
As for SMSes and phone calls, I filter them. Easy peasy. I'm still the boss. 
I agree that mobiles (cell phones) are a mixed blessing! They have certainly become more popular within the last five to ten years!
I never used to have one and distrusted them quite intensely but because so many 'British Telecom' public phones in England were vandalised and seemed to have fallen into disrepair some even with broken side windows, I felt the time had come to have my own telephone in case of emergency.
I was concerned about the use of radio waves and the effect on children's developing brains but each mobile gives off a different amount of energy is given off measured in S.A.R. (I forget what these letters represent)
After many years of private research I narrowed down the field and became increasingly impressed with what Blackberry Smart phones could offer me: both in terms of business and personal use! I use it primarily to make calls but also to receive and send e-mails, I have a good built in language translator app (application) for over 15 different langauges which is free called Navita which I use to check difficult sentennces I want to construct but I seldom ever use it for Spanish Dict I actually prefer to work it out myself and improve my Spanish! I have a Spanish Dictionary app and Penguin Root verbs app so my mobile has become a small portable language laboratory lol hehehe It also has a built in calender and many other clever features
What would I do without it? I have had it for just under a year on contract and I guess life would go on without it lol hahaha and I would have to adapt but it is a very useful tool!
I have one of those pay as you go cells $7US per month and only use it in emergencies. I am a contractor and it irritates the hell out of me when I'm talking business to someone and they have to interrupt to answer their phones. I go to a job to work, not answer calls.
Cell phones are a "mixed blessing" - I have a "prepaid" cell that I use only for emergencies, or calling out. I never turn it on, and I don't take calls, and nobody has my cell phone number (and I don't remember it anyway! 
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I love to see people at the food markets, where half of them are talking to their spouses on cell phones, arguing about what to buy, where to find some items, etc.
I don't like to see them walking into traffic in the parking lots from not paying attention. Maybe it's just "Darwin's principle" happening.
believe the term "cell" comes from "cellular network", since a base-station (radio tower) typically covers a certain area known as "cell". I'm not sure if this is specific to GSM networks or more general
I know...but 'cell' usually refers to a battery. 'Mobile phone' makes sense as it is a phone that you use when you're mobile.
Well, I also have one but, luckily, I rarely use it. Never liked text messages, really.
I agree with Heidi... No mobiles, no meetings, no critical issue, no Sunday office. Happy life.....
I was addicted to text messages when I was in college.
In college, it was not necessary but I loved it.
Now I hate it but it is necessary. :(
