How attached are you to your cell phone? (or other gadget)

I’m ridiculously attached to my iPhone. The whole being late/driving miles out of the way to ‘get something I forgot’...know all about that.

Losing the phone is the worst. I could barely get out of bed.

I need to throw it in a river and go sleep under a pine tree.

@peedub hahaha yeah I’ve been late more than once because I forgot my phone.

Luckily, my friend who was hosting the party is a total techie herself and understood my reason for being late (leaving behind my blackberry). I hope you have understanding friends too!

Me and my iPhone are like velcro! I’ve also been late on numerous occaisions because I’ve had to turn around and get my phone.

Yeah I’m very attatched to my chocolate. Of course your phone doesn’t even have to be some type of big thing like the iPhone or a Blackberry. It’s like some sort of relationship between you and your phone that you need it, even if you don’t use it. But, yeah i really don’t use it that much but when I’m without it I do feel like I’m disconnected to the outside world, as if its the only thing i can use to communicate with people.

I am reaaaaaalllllllllyy freaking addicted to my G1. It’s awesome and it does everything I could ever want it to do (and does it all with a pretty layout and design).

I don’t even own one.

I’m not addicted to my phone, but then I’ve not had mine for that long, so maybe I should say I’m not addicted to mine yet. Now, my iPod is a whole other story, that I cannot and will not do without.

I wouldn’t care if my cell phone got run over by a truck – it’s a piece of crap…
in fact, bring it on…

My PDA, on the other hand, is my soulmate.

I would be in a total panic if I didn’t have my phone. I’d always have that niggling little fear, ‘what if one of the kids needs me?!?’

My cellphone is in my hand right now. My iPod is in my pocket.

I am completely addicted to my iPhone.

Fluther
AP News
Weather
Maps
Yellow & White Pages
Pandora Radio
GPS for Driving
...and on & on.

I don’t know how I lived without it.

Oddly, I rarely use the actual phone and have no games on it.

Like the others, I am utterly and completely attached to my iPhone. Although I’m a social leper and hardly get any phone calls, I use it constantly for email, web browsing, and, of course, checking on Fluther. It’s just such a beautiful piece of gadgetry, so clean, so slick, so sexy . . . .it responds when you stroke it . . . Oh. Better stop now.

I use my iPhone for work, for fun, for keeping in touch with my kids; it holds my calendar, my contacts, my professional and personal emails, my music, my favorite pictures, and my many many programs & apps. I’m on it right now.
“Wihout my iphone I am nothing. Without me my iphone is nothing.” :)

Not much, actually.

My iPhone has now completely fused to my right hand (which makes it kind of difficult to recharge the thing). Fluther is the biggest reason for this. When my battery begins to die out from fluthering all day I go for my wife’s iPhone. As that one fails I go for my daughter’s iPod touch.
I got it bad, I tell you.

Donald Norman explains it in Emotional Design: Why We Love (or Hate) Everyday Things. Our emotional reaction of an object is broken down into three levels: visceral – how the object looks and feels; behavioral – what it can do and what it allows us to do with it; and reflective – how the object makes us feel about ourselves. Many posts above mention the iPhone. Apple’s product design excels at all three levels.

VERY!!!

as a 16 year old, i think it’s pretty funny that i hardly have an attachment to my cell phone. i mean, i do text pretty relentlessly, but when i don’t have my phone, i don’t really miss it except for the convenience of making plans. and i hardly ever bring it with me anywhere save for when i think i’ll need to contact my mother.
i love my ipod dearly, but i wouldn’t say it’s attached to my body at all times either.
the only gadget i really spend too much time with is the computer if that counts. and that’s pretty obvious.

I went a bit crazy when my iPhone failed. I had to wait a whole 2 DAYS to get it fixed ( replaced). I could barely survive the withdrawal symptoms. As soon as I got the new one, symptoms began to subside, and once I got all my stuff loaded and arranged on the new iPhone I was back to “normal.”

@simpleD, that explains a lot. Thanks.

@AstroChuck, they are developing wireless charging technology through induction of the ever-growing ubiquitous Wifi signals. Your problem may subside, soon. For now, just be happy that you have an iPhone.
blastfamy wants an iPhone: hint, hint…

i never leave my house without mine. when im at the grocery store or eationg im thinking about it. as soon as i get home i run to it to see if i missed an important phone call, txt or email. i think that if we were to have to live without cell phones we simply couldnt. and thats also why most of us will end up needing glasses!!

Today our class was dismissed early because of a gas leak in the heating system, and the principal wouldn’t let us go get our backpacks, so now I am cellphoneless but I guess I am OK.

I’m at work Fluthering from my cell phone. It makes work a little eenie weenie teenie bit bearable.

@90’s_kid: maybe the people who can’t live without their phones are the ones who actually use it for something productive not that I’m saying you don’t

I’m hooked on my phones. I never leave the house without them.