[citation][nom]noblerabbit[/nom]I hate phones. I call my wife using skype , from a choice of 100 local wifi hotspots, and If I really need to call someone, I have 25 cents for that. It's beyond me how society is getting ripped off at $50plus/mo ($600)/yr for these phone plans. Do people like phones that much? I know, smart phones, offer a lot more than 'phones' do, but... ...[/citation]
25-cents for a payphone? I'm guessing you live in New York (where Wikipedia tells me some payphones are still a quarter instead of the 50-cents+ they are in most other places). Typical. You know, the whole world isn't born, raised, educated, and employed within a 1-mile radius as seems to be the case in New York. Some of us don't live within WiFi-range of the nearest coffee-joint. Some of us own cars because we need them to get to places, there's no other options. Same with cell phones, it might be nice if your apartment building has a phone in the lobby, if your internet is reliable 24/7/365. If you actually have the option of free WiFi in most of the businesses you frequent, if you never leave the confines of your city, so that you never have to call a towtruck from the side of some highway in the middle of no where. For the rest of us, who may travel across farmland or desert or forest to get from one location to the next, who may not have a Starbucks in the same building as our apartment, who may not have broadband internet access in our area, having a cell phone just makes sense.