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Is your phone a paperweight

Discussion in 'Chit Chat' started by AudreyB, Feb 16, 2014.

  1. AudreyB

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    With the exception of times I have initiated contact, no one has dialed or texted my phone for any reason in over three weeks, save for my boss. This is not a dry spell, it's actually typical for me.

    Remind me again why I pay $45 per month for a paperweight? :dry:
     
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    Cause we live in hope that one day people will call us lol.
     
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    Since you use it so little, would it be worth going with pay-as-you-go rather than a contract?

    My phone is also a paperweight, which is exactly how I like it. When I first got it, I went a whole year on £5 of credit. I keep it with me in case I need to call someone for a ride or something, but I basically never get calls.
     
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    Can you do that?

    I would much rather pay as I go than pay regularly for a phone I only use for emergencies. (If I want to get in touch with someone I'd rather use email. Plus I don't have many friends.)

    We just realized we've been paying for months to keep a phone that has dead batteries and a lost charger of a type you can no longer buy in stores.
     
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    No, not at all.

    I make calls (yes believe it or not), texts, emails, surf the net (I post here from it often).

    Don't play games on it but, yes I use it for its primary and secondary purposes all the time. Doesn't hurt that it's a galaxy note 3.
     
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    My phone is buzzing BBM- and Whatsapp-wise but calls are far and few.
     
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    Honestly I probably overuse it some days

    I need to back off of it I think
     
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    Yeah, mine's a paperweight too. Used to be, at least. Recently I've decided to make too much use of it by spending basically my whole day on it - gaming, programming, and visiting EC.
     
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    Why don't you just get a prepaid plan with as few texts and minutes as possible?

    For example, I pay $15/month for unlimited texts, and if I want minutes, it's $5 for 25, $10 for 100, and so on.
     
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    I don't get calls frequently, but my phone's no paperweight, either.
    I mainly use it to play games, surf the net, and text. Since my phone's 300 minutes a month, I have to conserve my minutes.
     
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    How could I survive without my trusty Android? I try to avoid calling too much. Texts are unlimited.
     
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    I dropped a few hundred on a used iPhone 4S in excellent condition as a present to myself this past Christmas. I do use it quite a lot for various functions, although not gaming since I'm not much of a gamer. If nothing else, it's useful as kind of a handheld laptop since I am internet addicted.

    However, I can't shake this old-school conviction that the main purpose of a phone is to ring. Probably should have instead purchased an iPod and just went without a phone altogether, seeing that I live an unlisted life. :frowning2:
     
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    I hardly ever call, but Facebook, Whatsapp and the internet are used on a daily basis.
     
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    I use my phone way too much actually. I don't make or receive calls very often, but Whatsapp/iMessage/Twitter/Facebook are used every day, pretty much all the time I guess you could say.
     
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    my tablet is a paperweight!
    i used to use it in uni but now ... i just use my PC
     
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    Frankly it's just laziness that I haven't yet sought ought the cheapest option. There are a couple people I rarely text but I could just as easily call them.
     
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    The vast majority of my phone calls are from my parents. I don't have unlimited texting because I only get a dozen or less messages per month. I use my phone mainly for navigation and checking public transit, facebook/news/weather, emails, and notes/shopping lists.
     
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    No. I use it quite a lot (three or four times a day seems to be a minimum), but I'm not always on it. I don't have an iPhone, so I don't waste time on stuff like Snapchat.

    I haven't used my iPad or iPod for more than one day in every second month for about a year; they're not really useful.
     
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    Mine's a paperweight!!! I really only use it as an alarm to get me up in the morning. It got more use back when I was working but even then I still constantly forgot to check it (much to the dismay of my coworkers even though I TOLD them I'm not good at checking my phone and they should call my home phone.... I almost never leave the house so why would I check my cell phone or carry it around home when there's a phone on every level of my house...?). Its really just for keeping in contact with the parentals when I'm out and about by myself.
     
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    Yeah... mine's a paperweight pretty much. I rarely get texts/calls on it and I rarely initiate conversations. Every once in a while I might get a new game which occupies my time for a couple of days but these days I really don't use my phone for um... anything much. I don't even have many contacts on there, so I'm hoping to get some more contacts in the next 6 months so I have some virtual buddies in uni!