Non-smart phone users?

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Originally Posted by jtemple

I'm at the opposite end of the spectrum. I use my phone for everything except calls. I hate phone calls with a passion. I don't even have a land line at home.

To me, a phone call is nothing but an interruption. If my phone rings, the person on the other end had better be fucking dying, or I don't want to hear what they have to say.

When my phone rings, I'm almost always in the middle of something else. Stopping what I'm doing to answer their stupid phone call just pisses me off.

Email and texts, I can read at my leisure, when it's convenient for me.

This.

While I've always been a sucker for gadgets and toys anyway, my Nexus One has paid for itself many times over. Turn-by-turn navigation = never having to pay to update my Garmin maps ever again, and I can pull that up in any car - my POV, a GSA, or even a HMMWV (I'm talking stateside here, we don't usually have BlueForce Tracker), and being able to accurately look up businesses on the fly. Calendar that syncs to my Google calendar = critical to helping me remember appointments (because even at 27, I suffer from pretty serious CRS). And I just REALLY hate talking to people over the phone, because I cannot listen to what a person is saying while trying to multitask on something else - I will either screw up whatever I am working on, or not hear everything the person says.

That is just how my brain operates, though. I can appreciate the preference for simplicity over the "ooo shiny".



That being said.. AMJ - my phone has two mics - one for the user's voice, and another to pick up and neutralize background noise. Helps a bunch with the sound quality on both ends of the conversation.