Just wondering if cell companies deleted the phone, on smartphones would people actually miss it?

I would miss talking to family.

I have a house phone which I don’t actually use now but I pay for it, so it’s there if I want to return to using it.

I could survive with texting and not calling on the cell. I talk on the work phone if I need to and the home phone (as described above), if I wanted to.

I still need to talk for business, activate a new bank card, etc…so yes, we need to keep it.

911 emergency services don’t take text messaging right now. So I still need a phone.

I’m sure a lot of people wouldn’t. I just have an old flip phone for when I am out and truly need to call someone or text. But generally I use my landline for calls.

^^^^^Me too!!!

The phone capability is the ONLY reason I have one!!!

My father is going blind and he’d prefer to hear my voice anyway. We need to speak to each other.

I don’t have a landline and neither does he.

Yes. I would notice if I couldn’t call someone.

Businesses would have a problem.

Gosh. I haven’t had a landline phone for….15 years now? But I did port my landline phone number from 1995 to my cell phone.

I still think I mostly prefered the situation where all phones were land lines, and calls were not tracked by computer.

I don’t like the expectation that I will be reachable at practically any time and in practically any place.

I also don’t like having their be an automatic record of everyone’s exact phone calls.

The phone is essential for me. I rarely text people. It’s obnoxious, inefficient, unable to communicate tone/emotion, and soulless.

You just described a $50 Kindle Fire. It cannot make calls but it can do almost everything else when connected to WiFi. (Actually it probably can make calls VIOP but I don’t use that. )

@LuckyGuy Can you send text messages on it though ?

@anniereborn Through a messaging application.

@anniereborn Yep. Like @ARE_you_kidding_me said.
Or you can send a text through your email.

@LuckyGuy Is there a way to send a text through my email on my PC ?

There used to be @anniereborn. Not sure if you can still do it.

anniereborn If the person has a Verizon phone try sending to their “phone number vtext.com”
Example: ” 2125551234@vtext.com"

Other carriers have different rules.

Exactly.

@anniereborn
@Zaku
I only use my mobile when away from home too. More and more people seem to be recognizing what they lost when they gave up a truly secure and private way to communicate. I was shocked when people readily gave up security for mobility. The masses are so easy for advertisers.

^ Amen & WELCOME TO FLUTHER!!!

@LadyMarissa Thanks

Why are you shouting @LadyMarissa?

@anniereborn It’s not just Verizon phones that you can send texts via email. Just call your carrier to find out the “routing” number (for lack of a better term.) It might be on their website too.
For example, my carrier is US Cellular. To text myself or another US Cellular customer I send to XXXxxxXXXX@email.uscc.net.

Or…send a text to your email. It will show you the “routing” number.