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I travel enough to see the smartphone as absolutely necessary. The one time alone this year when I was able to rebook my Delta flights on my phone as the plane sat on the tarmac at my home airport and thunderstorms caused a ground stop at ATL meant I didn't have to spend the night in Atlanta, and that made every penny I paid for it this year worth it.
Some people use their cell phones as mini computers. I am using my IPhone to post in CD right now. So the idea would be if I were to give up phone in order to enter the contest, I would want to have an alternate for Internet access which I do.
In order to make things tougher, the rules should probably state all Internet access must be avoided. Now that’s a challenge!
I spend several weekends a year in areas where there is no cell reception and no internet (wi-fi), so I have some small experience in doing without.
All I really miss is my daily banking checks, but then I spent many years checking and balancing the accounts monthly instead of daily. However, convincing the banks to go back to sending monthly paper statements might be difficult!
email? No great loss, all I ever do is delete stuff and junk from advertisers. rarely do I get anything worth reading.
Facebook? Again, no great loss. One post to tell friends why I am gone, and done.
Searches? even less of a loss. Usually, any search I have ever tried just got me 100,000 or more results that had little or nothing to do with the search parameters I entered. (how do you get Studebaker or Corvair or Dyson websites when you entered "1966 Chevelle vacuum hose diagram"?)
whats a smartphone?LOL
most people couldn't leave it alone for a couple of hours never mind a year, your all addicts you cant leave the thing alone.
I ditched mine a few years ago. I have flip phone, its all I need. You'd be surprised the time you wasted with things you thought were important. Or just wasting brain cells as your face is plastered to the screen as you walk into a pole or off the curb into traffic, I've seen both.
I use mine for adjusting my hearing aides. Could have done without one for years. But now, Spotify and hearing aides are my can't do without em. I could do without the phone. The great thing is listening to music and nobody knows. You just look at them and smile and they think you care what they are saying.
I've never had a "smart" phone and don't foresee any possibility of having one - ever.
I'll do it for nothin'....just to illustrate the silliness of those who say they couldn't or wouldn't do it. There's never been a dumber fad.
Well you're quick to judge aren't you?
If you don't need one, good for you. Some of us DO need one.
For the record, my job CANNOT BE DONE without a smartphone. And don't even try to come up with the whole "how was it done before the advent of smartphones?" The level of efficiency, the turnaround times, and the precision accomplished with the tools of today's technological gadgets could not be done back then.
So, NO, I would NOT go a year without a smartphone for $100k.
What an arrogant comment. It's not a "fad." It's literally using a miniature computer on the go, while having a means of communicating, be it verbally or through video/Facetime, all in one.
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It's not a "fad." It's literally using a miniature computer on the go, while having a means of communicating, be it verbally or through video/Facetime, all in one.
