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Journal tomhudson's Journal: [POLL] How many times have you lost your cell phone? 17

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I've lost a couple of cell phones in the last decade. the first one I lost (my second cell phone), it cheesed me off because it was only a few months old ... so I dug out my old one. When I finally lost that one, it was almost a relief to be able to replace it... the battery was shot, coverage wasn't the best, etc.

The first lost one is probably in the car somewhere ... the first time I lost it, it took about a week before the "beep" from the dying battery betrayed where it was lost. The second time I lost it, it had slid off the night-table, and gotten trapped in the bedframe. Again, took a week to find it. Third time, not so lucky ...and I really, really looked! Even in the trunk! I think I put it on the car roof while putting stuff in the trunk (keys in one hand, stuff to put in the trunk in the other hand, cell phone ... I've only GOT 2 hands ...)

When I lost the older one, I know exactly where I had lost it, and said to myself "it's not worth the hassle. Even if someone finds it, they'll only be able to talk for 10 minutes before it dies", so I went and had the SIM disabled, and got my current phone.

If you lose a cell phone, it's not that big a deal. Lose a smart phone, and who ya gonna call? Sure, you can replace the phone (and that's going to hurt $$$-wise), but your data is gone (or if you dropped it in the toilet, you can say it's pretty much flushed).

So: How many cell phones have you lost | had stolen | broken | flushed?

[_] None (I'm such a liar)
[_] One
[_] Two
[_] Three to Five
[_] Six to Nine
[_] 10 or more
[_] I don't have a cell phone, you ignorant clod!
[_] I have a neural implant.
{_} In Soviet Russia, cell phone loses YOU!
[_] VoodooPhone is my wireless carrier - if I don't pay them, I get repossessed!

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[POLL] How many times have you lost your cell phone? More

[POLL] How many times have you lost your cell phone?

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  • Once... It wasn't even a week old. Boy, was I pissed. I've had cellphones since 1996, so once in 12 years, isn't all that bad :-P
  • At least, none permanently. I did have one that I dropped in a snow bank (back when we had winter in MN [when I lived there]); it found me again a week later after I replaced it, since I thought it fell into a sewer drain. And that was a CDMA phone, so I had to buy a new phone from the carrier and pay them to activate the new one and disable the old one.

    Otherwise the longest I've been phone-less is maybe a day and a half. It is generally rather difficult to lose a phone in my small cars...

  • still have my first one.

  • OK, maybe it could happen to a kid or wayward teenager (although neither of our kids has lost their cell-phone). But what adult is moronic enough to actually lose a cell-phone? For more than a decade, I've had at least two at a time - one from work, one personal - totalling about 6, and never lost one.

    • But what adult is moronic enough to actually lose a cell-phone?

      Sometimes these things fall out of your pocket. If you're at a big event (like a concert), and such a thing happens, then your chances of finding it back are pretty much nil. That's about what happened to me when I lost my phone a few years ago.

  • I have no idea where it went, but it went missing and presumed stolen in the Philippines a couple years ago. I'm not the type of person to lose things, especially phones and personal effects.

  • One (Score:2)

    by plover ( 150551 ) *

    OK, two if you count non-permanently lost episodes. The holster popped off my belt at a gas station and it landed in the snow. I got a call at home from a friendly cashier that night, and I bought a new holster the next day.

    The only time I really permanently lost one was 1991. It was one of those "bag phones", which was really a 3-watt car transceiver mounted next to a sealed gel battery, a wide handle with a snap-in holster for the corded car handset, and a 9" rubber-ducky antenna sticking out the top

  • Now I keep it on a leash, like my mittens.

  • None (Score:1)

    by Zeriel ( 670422 )

    All my phones have either been work-provided, smartphones, or both, so I've had reason to be paranoid about losing them. Never so much as put one through the laundry, in fact.

  • [X] Two

    I've decided today that the phone I have not seen since last week Wednesday is officially "Lost(tm)". It's a company phone so there is no cost to replace it to me. In fact, I may end up with a Crackberry as a replacement for the Motorola Razor I lost.

    As to your issue with lost smartphone data, that's what backups are for. Yes, you can online upload/synch most of them and/or dump their contents to your compter's HD or a memory card. I feel losing a smart phone is the same as losing a very cheap la

    • Well, if you get another one for "free", more power to you ...

      I thought about a blackberry ... but I just like the convenience of my Motorola v635 - it's the right shape, does exactly what I want, is pretty much indestructible, and after almost 3 years, it says that it has 4,646 hours on it (huh???) When it finally gives up the ghost, I'll be disappointed.

  • None (Score:2)

    by http ( 589131 )
    [X] I don't have a cell phone, you ignorant clod!

    Though I fear for the day when they decide I'm capable enough to have the root password (or be in the sudo admin group) at work.
  • Actually I succeeded at laundering it. Opened it, set it out close to the fire and, a couple months later, it works again! Which is ncie because I found the interface on it to be far nicer than any of the replacements I was trying to use. Work might give me a blackberry Storm, but that remains, as of yet, undecided.

  • One stolen from my car when I went to pay for fuel at a filling station. Oops.

    One discarded as incompatible when I changed to a GSM carrier, but still in working condition.

    One in my back pocket when we spontaneously ran through the fountains with the kids. Oops.

    One relegated to charged spare status when I got an iPhone.

    One in my shirt pocket on my kid's fifth birthday, leaning over the saltwater skate and ray petting tank at the Oregon Coast Aquarium. I was holding her so she could touch the fish, and plooo

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