Let's all put our iPhones away for a week
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How are you finding using Windows phone everyday? Like it? Im waiting for it to develop a little more and when they get a tad more media attention.
Agent-P
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I really like it. I've been using it since it was first released. I'll admit it is a bit lacking with some features (but those will be remedied this fall with the Apollo update). However even considering that, I haven't any issues using it as a daily driver.
moldy lunchbox
macrumors 6502a
Already did this. I had a 3GS, sold it and went 7 months completely phoneless before I got my iP4's. It didn't bother me at all really, other than being slightly more bored when I had time to kill.
decafjava
macrumors 603
He he I think you're missing the point.
Of course if one put their phone away you'd have to warn friends/family to contact by other means lest they get mad/panic when you don't answer.Wrathwitch
macrumors 65816
Well it sounds like you just recently got it and are in the honeymoon phase of a new device. When I first got my iPhone4 i was like that. Same with World of Warcraft LOL!
As far as how much time you are spending on it, it should cool off after a few months. If you are already a few months into it and show no sign of letting go then perhaps you have an addiction. For real.
I guess I look at it like my World of Warcraft addiction (which I have pretty much broken). If you are not getting your house clean on a weekly basis, cooking your own meals, not doing laundry or if it is causing your work to suffer then you have a HUGE problem. I justified my own addiction by those measurements, house got cleaned, I got cleaned, work got done etc.
If all of the basics are being attended to, then you should be fine. The only thing I can suggest is if you are in someone else's company, say at dinner or something, leave your damn phone in it's holster/pocket UNLESS your friend is of like mind and doesn't care and uses his/hers in that kind of a setting. There is nothing more annoying than someone who can't discipline their mind and just enjoy a conversation without having or needing to have one with their phone buddy at the same time.
Just be glad you don't have a GS3, you would never see the light of day! Plenty of things to tinker with and mess around with on that phone!
Regarding the OP content: I would never put my cell phone away as it is my only phone line. I have to lock it up in a locker at work and leave it there, but at home, it is my alarm clock and phone. That and I enjoy Zombie Farm and see no reason to let the zombies run amok without my guidance.
xnickitynickx
macrumors regular
As good an idea as human interaction is, there is no reason for me to give up my phone. First, I pay a ton for my cell service, I'm gonna use it
Not to mention, there's just no point to be without it. It would be like parking your car for a month. Sure you can get around one way or another; but cars make it quicker and more fun
Just my $0.02
Not to mention, there's just no point to be without it. It would be like parking your car for a month. Sure you can get around one way or another; but cars make it quicker and more fun
Just my $0.02
willmtaylor
macrumors G4
OMFG...this thread hijacking by the screen-size-obsessed is just getting ridiculous, almost as ridiculous as the matte-screen pandemic of a year or two back.
Make your own FN threads and leave the rest of us alone.
Interstella5555
macrumors 603
Addiction and usage are two different things, just because you can't put down your phone doesn't mean others can use it as the tool it is.
wrathwitch said:
That's exactly me. Nothing gets done. I miss everything. Appointments, haircuts, I even missed 3 hours of work because I typed the wrong hours into my phone by accident.
I even failed 3 college courses because of it. But the worst part of it all is that I'm losing sleep and I've had it for one year. My eyes are sunken in and it looks like gravity has taken a toll on my face.
I used to be one of the beautiful people. And now all I do is manicure my phone, perfecting my iTunes library, restoring and downloading apps. Sorting my springboard. And talking to people all the time. And now I'm sitting around waiting for a new phone so I can start all over again.
But it's not worth it. Why are we doing this?!
They have the saying if you give them too much, they'll use too much. I'm too deep into it.
BuckeyeMac
macrumors 6502
Might want to get that checked out
batting1000
macrumors 604
It's a common issue, not sure why it would warrant medical help.
scaredpoet
macrumors 604
The problem isn't the iPhone. It's the person using it.
That said: I had to do without a smartphone of any kind for a week and a half, and itd wasn't planned or by choice, which I think is the real acid test for whether you can go on without one. This was a couple years back, and my 3GS got stolen the same day the iPhone 4 was announced. I lucked out and managed to pre-order a 4, but that left me with about a 10 day period where I had no cell phone at all (under the advice of an AT&T rep who felt that even putting a replacement SIM in a cheap cell phone would mess up my upgrade eligibility... no idea if that was true or not, but I didn't want to take any chances of my pre-order getting punted over it and leaving me without a smartphone for even longer).
I survived the ordeal, and I did notice that my behavior changed a bit. I noticed people around me a bit more because I couldn't glue my face to a screen. I slowed down and relaxed. I used my work-supplied landline a lot more, and had a little laugh at the fact that I had become lousy at remembering people's phone numbers because I was used to having a contact list to choose from. And I was even lousy at dialing because I had been so used to my phone having a backspace key (though, at work we've since ditched the old analog phones and switched to VoIP phones, which have both contact lists and "smart" dialpads with backspace keys).
And in fact, when my iPhone 4 did arrive, I didn't tear the box open and activate it right away. I enjoyed my last few hours of no-phone bliss before getting home from work, giving my new phone a full charge, and downloading 30GB of content to it.
But would I say I would want to go through life without one? No. There were some real moments where not having a smartphone, or cell phone of any kind, was a real issue. I had a trip that same weekend that didn't go as well as it could've because I couldn't reach people, and they couldn't reach me. The roadtrip was also a bit boring because I had to make do with any CDs I'd thought to burn, instead of just plugging my phone in and playing whatever I wanted to hear off that (I also learned that radio really sucks these days). And there were some tense moments that could've been avoided if I could've gotten an e-mail in a timely fashion, and sent back a quick response.
What not having an iPhone for a week taught me was moderation. Gadgets in themselves aren't bad, it's how we choose to use them that could be a problem. Getting rid of them though, isn't a good solution either. You just have to learn self control.
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Wrathwitch
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LittleGwen
macrumors 6502
I could live without my phone for a couple days but I don't know if I can last a week... only because I need to be in contact with my mom. I don't really care if people want to spend their free time on their phones or they want to play with their phones before they go to sleep. HOWEVER, the thing that annoys me the most is when you're out at a restaurant to eat and the person you've come with is just constantly playing with their phone. I think that's incredibly rude and it makes it so obviously clear that they think their phone is more important than you or what you have to say.
SR45
macrumors 65832
I use my phone as a phone. Only one I have, no land line. Now how are you going to do that, with friends, family, 911 use, etc ? Very dumb and possibly dangerous