Where do you keep your mobile phone when you are outside?

Pants pocket. Never dropped.

I have a wallet in one pocket and keys in the other and the hip pockets don’t work if I sit down. I tried a holder that strapped to my arm with Velcro but it felt a bit awkward. It’s only a problem when I am wearing very light clothing.

I carry a small purse so the wallet goes in there. Keys in one pocket usually, phone in the other. But some styles – particularly of women’s clothes – have very small pockets and that can be a problem. I also have stayed with a small phone so I can carry it.

In my handbag or in my hand. I’ve never dropped it.

My phone is quite a big one and doesn’t fit some pockets. It bounced out of my pocket once when I was running but luckily was completely undamaged.

Holster made by Otter. In a Otter case.

My butler carries it, he dropped it only once when it was set to vibrate as it sat in his front trouser pocket.
I would have fired him but he’s getting on in years & it was the closest he’s had to sex in ages, the fright was enough for him to learn his lesson.

In my front pants pocket, along with my keys. I just have a small flip-phone, no smartphone, since I don’t feel the need to be connected to the internet every moment of the day.

Side pocket, drop it all the time, it’s always fine

Front pants pocket if I don;t have a jacket on; jacket or coat pocket if I have a jacket or coat on.

I’ve never dropped it from a pocket, only when I have been clumsy like when holding it while getting out of a car.

I have an armband holder for when I am running.

Hidden away in front pants pocket.

Belt holsters are a pinnacle of bad taste.

While we are on the subject:

Smartphone cases are idiotic.

A significant portion of a smartphone’s cost is due to the development of such a slim chassis. If you put your phone in a case you are paying to negate this advantage.

Phone case “protection” has evolved to the point of absurdity:

“I’m sorry I missed your call. Your call will be returned in approximately twenty minutes when I have removed my phone from it’s LifeProof case.”

@SecondHandStoke I’m sorry you can’t push to release to the phone from the holster, dropping my phone without a case would not be a happy day.

Left front pocket of trousers.

If I’m out, I will have it in my handbag. If I’m on the deck outside of my house, I may have it next to me or it may stay in the house. Sometimes if I don’t bring the handbag, for example if I’m taking a little walk at lunch, I’ll have it in my coat pocket or in my hand.

I have dropped it once or twice but I have the Otter Box so it’s ok. Once a few weeks ago I had it without the Otter Box and it fell on the ground by my car, in my driveway. It stayed there overnight, upside down. It was very wet on the ground (asphalt) as it has just rained. It was ok when I got it the next morning. It had a rubber skin on it so that probably helped.

I keep it in my pocket most of the time, or if I’m wearing a skirt, or pants with shallow pockets, I keep it in my purse. It has a protective plastic case, and I also keep it in one of those phone wallets. I’ve never dropped it.

I keep mine safely in my pocket, I am very wary of dropping it. I dropped and wrecked a phone that I really liked.

I have a very slim case on my phone. It doesn’t cover the screen. It’s to keep it scratch-free for when I want to eBay the phone.

I carry mine in a belt-mounted holster. That minimizes my pocket clutter.

Right pocket. If I’m in cargo pants, right lower pocket.

When I’m bouncing, I leave it with a bartender.

In my canoe, it’s double bagged, in a dry box.

In the pocket of the jacket. It slipped outta my hand once, the screen is cracked.

Always in my handbag.

In my purse.

If I don’t have a purse it might be left in the glove compartment of my car.

Once in a while I carry it in my hand and leave it on a table wherever I am.

I hate putting it in my pocket, but my husband puts it in my pocket once in a while. It doesn’t last long.

If I have a coat on I sometimes put it in my coat pocket. I’m back in FL so I only wear a coat about 30 days a year. Not much help.

I want a lanyard to put around my neck to carry my phone.

I was thinking of digging out an old fanny pack I have. My sister has a really nice designer fanny pack she uses.

Most of the time I am dressed casually in light cotton or gortex cargo shirts, shorts or pants, unless I’m out visiting. I have pockets everywhere with flaps that either button or velcro closed. When dressed like this, I carry the phone in my left shirt pocket with the flap secured. At other times, especially in a downpour, I carry it in a ziplock bag in the right thigh pocket of my pants. When dressed in slacks, I carry it in my right front pants pocket and I hate that. I find carring a cell phone, keys—anything—with the slightest bulk, uncomfortable. When I sail, the phone is now kept safely below decks in the desk at the comms and nav station.

Two phones have been lost overboard and three destroyed by the salt air. None have ever been dropped or lost on land, except one that was stolen on Matecumba Key.

I often keep my phone in my handbag and my bag. I only keep it in my pocket when the pocket is big and when I only need to put it there for a short time.

Despite that, you don’t know how many times I have dropped my phone. I’m a pretty careless person. But so far nothing significant has happened to my phone. I knew from the beginning that it will drop a lot so I went for a really tough one.

Front pants pocket, the one opposite the pocket I keep my keys and wallet in. Rarely anywhere else except mounted on my car dashboard.

I carry it in my front pants pocket. In the dead of winter I will put it in my zippered inside coat pocket. I freely ignore it if it’s not convenient to answer.
Mostly the phone is there for me when I want it. I’ve never lost it.

There is a pocket for it on the outside of my purse. I keep it there. i have never dropped it.

In a vest pocket or shoulder holster along with being kept from falling or being lost by a lanyard around my neck.

I did not know scottish people had mobile phones, I mean, they won’t have a clue how to use them but still, such progress.

@ucme This is what they use up there. No wonder they have trouble keeping them in their pockets!

In my Panzer.

@ucme The ignorance of the English has long since ceased to surprise me. Your butler tells me he is so wearied of explaining to you how such devices work that he has taken to hiding in a broom closet.

@janbb Is that dog carrying a mobile phone around its neck?

I think it is a Westie with a bow tie.

@flutherother No – the rather lame joke was that Scottish folk use Westies as their mobile communication devices. You gotta admit, it’s a cute pic anyway.

@janbb They are cute dogs alright. I also noticed you said ‘up there’ but surely you are no longer ‘down there’.

Oh – I guess you didn’t know. I’m the under-scullery maid in @ucme‘s household.

Oh dear, I am so sorry to hear that. You have my commiserations.

Aye laddie, the Maister werks us to the bone!

That’s no whit ahm worried aboot lassie. He’s a big coorse lump that yin if ye ken ma meanin. Ye shood flap they flippers northwards there’s aye a hame fir ye in bonnie Scotland, ken.

You jocks always were a witless bunch of heathen savages…bless.

@flutherother Summer is a cumin’ in and Imma gonna cum too. How’s that for a brassie lassie!

Ye sound like a guid sonsie lass. Wid ye fancy a wee dram up in Auld Scotia jist tae see in the New Year like? It’s a guid wee while till the summer if ye get ma drift.

Och aye! But me puir wings canna fly sae far! (with apologies to Robbie Burns)

PS Make me a meat pie and I’ll waddle after ye anywhere!

Aw right lassie there’s a glass o’ Laphroaig and a Forfar bridie just waitin’ fur ye ower the border. Wid ye like an ingin bridie or a plain yin?

I dinnae nae what an “ingin” is?

Ye mean ye dinnae ken. Onyway there’s twa kinds o’ bridie, plen anes an ingin anes. The ingin anes hae onion in them and twa holes in the pastry so ye kin tell the difference. C’moan up here an find oot fur yersel and I’ll gie ye a Wallace’s peh intae the bargin’.

Och – I dinnae ken, o’ course. Injin uns then, please! Ta!

I don’t worry about the phones when i go outside. That’s what answer machines are for.

Ingin (sic) anes it is then eaten hot oot o’ a paper poke.