I can see a certain utility of the device for people who have a job "on the road", like an ATT service person or a travelling salesman who has to check on whether an item is in stock or so. But most of the buggers are not that type. I sit in a restaurant and want to have a "quiet" conversation with my wife - and there is is this guy who does not stop screaming into his cell phone at the next table (he must have forgotten that he has a phone). On several occasions already I have asked them to stop being a nuisance - then they look at me as if I came from the moon. Or the ladies in the supermarket that seem to come without a shopping list and need "on line" directions what to buy. That's ok if they are in anothr isle. But if they keep yelling into the thing when they are in-line behind me at the cash register, I blow my top. Already several times I have said: "Lady, can you stop babbling". I know I am rude, but so are they. And last, people who get lost on the road should not be driving - or get a GPS. At least that thing will only babble at them.

I don't like them because of the heavy bag which one has to carry them around in and the antenna is so long.

Rick, we imported a Finnish Au Pare, a gal from the land of Nokia that knows her mobile phone technology better than her smoked fish. We actually use her to carry around the heavy bag. When we want to place a call, we ask her to climb a small hill and extend the antenna as high as her body allows.

While I'm not positive we aren't breaking any laws or upsetting Finnish-American diplomacy, we certainly believe the quality of the call (and the smoked fish) is improved since Miika joined the family.

Lets have a vote, who would you rather place your inter-stellar call?

or

Finns finish the chosen objective, in Finnish.

I'll vote for the Miika solution.

The bag is heavy and I might poke someone in the eye with the antenna when trying
to use the mobile telephone.

Rick P.

Hi Techgranny,

Yup I do have a phone, but that is a cellphone which doesn't work in the house and it is too expensive to use it a lot. Ergo, it is an 'emergency phone' LOL.
My 'homephone' broke down with the move and I was about to get me a new one, but it turns out I love the peace and quiet that comes with not having a phone. No weird calls from telephonesalesmen at the oddest hours, no calls with 'sorry, wrong number' at three AM in the morning.
And no long calls with friends or colleagues who I will see the next day anyway. (Big waste of time!)

Gotta run now;)
bye!

Sarah.

Well, sorry to buck the trend, but I use my mobile phone all the time. However, jd and whs, you will be pleased that I text rather than 'babble' :)

I just find it so useful - quick off the mark messages which you will receive a reply from almost straightaway (depending on who you are texting) from almost anywhere.

Miika can carry mine too if she likes...

I actually laughed out loud :)

Here's the man himself
with his new 'portable cellular device'

Oma, when I am your age (that isn't supposed to be as rude as it sounds, sorry) then current technology, the new 'slim phones' and similar we will obselete, and be regarded in the same way as the above 'phone :)