A poll on phones

[wellinghall]

[Poll #1590506]
If you don't have a phone, please say so; if you have more than one, please use your own judgement in coming up with an answer!

Comments

[emperor]

No idea; I got it when the last one broke!

[bunn.livejournal.com]

ditto, and mine was second hand then. No idea how old it actually is. I don't hold with all this chucking stuff out to buy a new shinier one.

[philmophlegm.livejournal.com]

Not only is yours second-hand, but the person who got it first hand didn't pay for it either!

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

Fair enough!

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

Fair enough!

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

Fair enough!

[miss-next.livejournal.com]

I've only just got the new one, but the old one was just over five years old when it died... which I think is a bit young. :-(

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

Fair enough!

[pellegrina.livejournal.com]

Mine was a hand-me-down from Malaheed when he changed jobs and got a new one for work; it was newish at the time and still going strong (because I am positive that the only problem I have with the audio cutting out in strong background noise is T-Mobile being naughty about two-way bandwidth and not the phone's fault).

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

Fair enough!

[elegaer.livejournal.com]

I have husband's old Blackberry - it was from when Blackberrys first came out, so must be a good few years old, I'm approximating 4 years old, but probably even more

[muuranker.livejournal.com]

My four-year-old is a late version of the first model, swapped for a not-quite-early version of the first model when my employer changed suppliers. I think I had the first one for 2 or 3 years, and those who worked in County Hall had them for a year or more before we lowly frontliner drive all over the county types, so I would say they were 'new' more like six or seven years ago.

[muuranker.livejournal.com]

My four-year-old is a late version of the first model, swapped for a not-quite-early version of the first model when my employer changed suppliers. I think I had the first one for 2 or 3 years, and those who worked in County Hall had them for a year or more before we lowly frontliner drive all over the county types, so I would say they were 'new' more like six or seven years ago.

Doesn't time fly!

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

I remember being impressed by your shiny new(ish) phone in Portugal.

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

Fair enough!

[foradan.livejournal.com]

Mine is less than a month old. My previous one stayed behind in Xi'an. I think it fell out of my rucksack in a taxi.

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

cf niterobin's comment ...

[sally_maria]

3 and a half years, replacing one I'd had for six.

The really scary thing is that the easiest way to find that out was to search my journal for the post I remembered making when I bought it. :-)

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

Yep, that's scary! ;-)

[vescoiya.livejournal.com]

Mine's a touch under seven years old at this point and still working well.

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

Similar to mine, then.

[lil-shepherd.livejournal.com]

I think.

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

Fair enough - I don't expect people to keep precise track of these things!

[the-marquis.livejournal.com]

Althoug I'm actually talking about the TS Publicity phone here

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

Fair enough.

[inzilbeth-liz.livejournal.com]

I can't believe mine is four years old but it is! I was sent an upgrade a few months ago but it was so inferior I sent it back!

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

I'm only going to replace mine when it breaks irrepairably (or so often that it becomes too much of a nuisance . too expenseive to repair it).

[dreiviertel.livejournal.com]

Mine is 8 years old! I've replaced the battery a few times, but it still does what I want it to do - i.e. it makes calls and writes messages - none of the fancy camera-cum-Internet stuff, but I have a camera and a computer for that. ;)

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

Yep - mine can email, it can text, and costs precisely £nil in upgrade costs!

[widsidh.livejournal.com]

landline only and proud of it ;-)

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

I knew there had to be someone out there! ;-)

[widsidh.livejournal.com]

It started with not really needing one...

by now it has become a sport ;-)

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

Mine has toured Norway and Svalbard :-)

ETA: And cf foradan's comment ...

[helflaed.livejournal.com]

Not only is it eight, but it has also recently survived being dropped into water!

For the record I took out the battery immediately, shook out all the water I could, took it apart as much as I could, dried it off with a baby wipe and then allowed it to dry for a couple of days. The key was taking the battery out immediately though.

[didiusjulianus.livejournal.com]

Even though I did precisely that, water killed one of mine.

[helflaed.livejournal.com]

Yes- I got very lucky!

[didiusjulianus.livejournal.com]

Not too sure, at least 2 years, and it was a new one of an old model. There are 6 useable phones in our household at the moment, ranging from vintage (6 yrs old +, possibly one might even be 10) to very snazzy and new.