Curiosity about smartphone ownership

[Nilbog]

I hate them, but appreciate they are a necessary evil, I will own one until it barely functions then reluctantly buy the model I believe offers the best value. I'm currently on my third phone which is coming up to 3 years old

 

[Zardnaar]

Nokia of some sort in 98/99. The thing was virtually indestructible.

Yeah my wife used her old nokia as an emergency phone. Still works afaik after almost two decades.

 

[Deset Gled]

Work pays for a new one every two years.

I've tried Apple, Motorola, LG, and Sony. Sony is my current favorite.

 

[pming]

Hiya!

As two others have said...

Zero.

I've never owned a cell phone (dumb or smart). To the OP: I think you should add a "0" option.

^_^

Paul L. Ming

 

[Umbran]

I got the first smartphone for business reasons. Hated it, largely because my fingers tend not to work well with touch screens. Don’t know why, but I sometimes couldn’t answer my phone because of it.

Do I recall correctly that you play guitar? The calluses can sometimes be a problem for touchscreens.

 

[Umbran]

To the OP: I think you should add a "0" option.

I intentionally chose to not include it, as that option isn't relevant to what I was curious about.

 

[briggart]

I bought my 1st, and currently only, smartphone 4 years ago, making it my 4th or 5th overall cellphone since 2001. I'm sitting in front of my laptop pretty much all day, so I don't usually feel the need for it.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

Do I recall correctly that you play guitar? The calluses can sometimes be a problem for touchscreens.

Yes, I do.

I hadn’t considered that as a possibility. I just lumped it together with other semi-mysterious hand-related issues I have, like the shallowness and fineness of my fingerprint ridges making it difficult for me to be properly fingerprinted. Or my unusually dry palms.

 

[Odysseus]

zero

 

[Olgar Shiverstone]

With my own money? Two ... my current iPhone SE and prior to that an iPhone 4. And unlikely to upgrade unless Apple comes back with a small form factor phone, as the current offerings are much too large. Some days I miss my old flip phone.

Work is a different story ... many generations of BlackBerry and then 3 or 4 generations of iPhone. I don't get a choice in that; they just decide to give me new ones.