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Saw a guy the other day with no less than 3 phones , he was talking on 1 then another started ringing . As he pulled out the second one I could see he had a 3rd phone in his hand. This is not the first time I have seen this phone thing, however It never fails to amuse me . Why not have just one phone and the other numbers diverted to it? Yes in this case he was Chinese , but I have seen plenty of other Nationality's do the same thing
10 years 37 weeks ago in Web & Technology - China
I have 1.
It is at the same time interesting that China has a high availability of dual sim phones. So you don't know if the guy with 3 phones is actually having 6 sim cards :)
Nessquick:
Yeah,I got dual simcard one Sony C39h or something like this
One is my local, with internet and all the sh1t, second is my Czech card, using for internet banking mostly.
One for the family, one for the job, one for the xiao san ?
I too have seen my colleagues with 2-3 phones. as they told me, one for internet as they got it quite cheap offer, bla bla bla....A crazy student holds iphone, ipad, macbook air, and ipod. I see him quite often with all these carrying around the class. May be show off! Don't know. Then at the same time, few Chinese colleagues, carry vintage phone invented before the smart phone.
I carry one and only one. Back home, I didn't or don't carry phone much because , I think, "if it is important to call someone then I will do it or pay a visit. If someone wants me, then he/she must try or wait. Here, I carry all the time because it is not my country and because of language problem, it could be my helpline.
Got one smart phone and one stupid phone.
The smart phone came much later as a birthday gift from the GF. It "facetimes" so she can keep tabs on me 24 hrs a day wherever I happen to be. Well, that's not all it does.
The stupid phone is a pre-paid Samsung that I have had since my arrival to China and still use today strictly as a backup in the event I lose the iPhone or forget it at home or work.
And honestly, I prefer the stupid phone as it does what a phone is meant to do: call and text. Nada mas.
Scandinavian:
Bonus feature of 'stoopid phones'. They are less likely to break if you use them to open beer bottles.
Red_Fox:
Not a beer drinker so I cannot corroborate your statement. On the other hand, they do make a good corkscrew.
Just one, but I posted here to ask a side question... how does one justify ditching current phone and upgrading when current phone actually functions exceedingly well and to upgrade is just an impulse/vanity/curiosity thing ?
Red_Fox:
Simply fight or ignore the impulse. When you succumb to all the hype about how "better" the next generation of any product may be (a ploy ingrained in all industries these days to sell more and keep the profits rolling in), you become a tool to the persuasive brainwash that underscores all marketing and advertising efforts. Remember this: the upgrade-upgrade message that bombards us daily caters to the lowest common denominator of the non-thinking consumerist public. Don't be swayed.
The smart man keeps his stupid phone (or computer or car or whatever) for 5-to-10 years. The stupid man keeps his smart phone for 1 year and then upgrades to a "smarter" phone the year next. I call bullshit on modern mercantile psychology.
philbravery:
I just upgraded to a smart phone only because it is more convienet to check email when out , seams to be a better option than this stupid surface tablet and it's windows 8
diverdude1:
cool, good answer Red,,, I've pretty much kept out of consumer-culture my whole life, unless buying the best is part of CC. I always just said that I like to have the best because it just makes more sense*. I think I'll stick w/ your advice re. upgrades.
*bought expensive matching Omega SeaMaster watches for me and my ex-wife, but we have the satisfaction of owning the best and the cost is actually less in the long run. Been wearing them for 25 years and I bet they run another 100 ~
We have kjust throw our 4-5 old ones, 2 I have destroyed in the amok and we still keep 5 functonal phones, where 3 we use daily. okay ? we are rich.
And, no, never ever anything iShit in our home
I usually have 2 incase one is stole. I buy used phones usually. I bought a Nexus 4 cheap $150 then 2 more that were eukered for cheap and made a phone from the 2. Cost me $80. I have 2 iPhone4 sitting around also. I don't usually even carry a phone unless I have my purse.
2. One cheap (less than 200 rmb) dumb phone for local calls and texts, especially those SMS's letting me know of my latest traffic violation. One smart phone using my American number, use this one for everything else.
1. A dumb Nokia plastic brick. Send/receive messages, does calls, would resist a thermo-nuclear blast.
DrMonkey:
Nokia 1010. With dual-SIM, *color* screen, built-in Sudoku and built-in alarm clock. Technologic progress, those days, it's too fast, makes my head turn.