I have a tablet and no phone. I mostly need a phone to occasionally call my mother but there are also times people ask me for a phone number for some reason. I can text with it, I think, at least get texts but not actual calls. I can't understand that. I am not a phone person. I used to be but I am much more an email person these days. It annoys me that I can't also make calls with a tablet. I really do not want yet another device, especially one I use so little.
Since I don't make a lot of calls, I have a cheap, non-smart, pre-paid cellphone, primarily for emergencies, and so that my wife can get in touch with me when I'm out. I have an inexpensive 7" Android tablet that I use primarily as an ebook. I have a netbook that I use when travelling, and a PC with a pair of big displays as my primary work machine at home.
In my opinion, a 10" tablet is too large to conveniently carry everywhere, and a phone's display is too small for reading on (for me at least.)
There are controllers that integrate your phone and using your phone makes financial sense and reduces the hassle of having to carry a separate device.
It is a net perk because phone calling or mobile messaging is inevitably part of work and you don't want to buy your own separate phone. It's only awkward for anyone who isn't used to having two phones.
I have been thinking for a while about how it's kind of silly to have a phone. How often do I make phone calls or receive them? Not very often. Also I generally never need it on the go, mostly make calls at home or work. There is something that keeps me from switching to an iPad or some other tablet to just use to make calls and for regular surfing. Is it just nostalgia? Who knows.
Partly for when I'm on-call and don't want to carry around two phones. But mostly just because it was convenient... I can be more "free" / mobile / not at my desk, if I can answer from wherever I am. But it does seem to be more unhealthy than helpful.
I'm using Nokia 108. It's small and light, the battery lasts 2 weeks (1 week if I listen to radio often), it's a phone. I don't worry if it falls and breaks (and it doesn't break easily, I washed it with my jeans once and it still works, just had to buy a new battery).
If I need internet access I have a tablet in my backpack, it's much more convenient to browse on a bigger screen and without worrying battery will drain and I won't be able to answer calls. The hurdle of taking the tablet out is enough to discourage constant checking for notifications, but when I need gps or have to wait for 30 minutes in a queue somewhere it's there.
The reason why they use phone in the first place is that you will always have it with you. The reason why you have your phone with you is because you use it to make phone call. Unless you are suggesting to buy phone that supports dual SIM cards, I think this idea is not very practical. Why not have physical TFA device instead (they are usually much cheaper and lighter than a phone)?
It is a fair point that if you aren't using a hands-free headset or the speaker then accessing other features on your phone while in a call is problematic. However, if you are on a hands free headset then the author's point kind of falls apart. That said, I wish I could buy a palm phone (small mostly just a phone) because I do all the other stuff (calendaring, looking up dates, Etc.) on my iPad that I use with my phone.
I've ditched keeping a phone, entirely. The minimum price is $30/mo now (subsidies), Android phones want replacing for some made up reason every year, regardless of function, just to keep the network talking to them; and I got no one I wanted to talk to in the first place.
Ive got a 5+ year old tablet that doesn't wear a case because it stays by the bedside table and doesn't go anywhere else. There was a case available for it when it was new, which i bought, which dissolved after a few years, and now there's no equivalent made for my tablet.
I had a Palm PDA and have kept using smartphones for productivity apps, calendring, musical, photos as of the beter part of a decade. The fact that it van place and receiver calls really doesnt matter to me, but PDAs dont exist anymore, and so, why not installatie a basic sim?
My 'phone' has been really useful to me so I take it basically always with me, unless I specifically know I don't need it (such as going for a swim). I don't take calls if I don't feel like it, but very few people call me.
Do you not use you phone for other things than communication?
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