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[vvalkyri]

Hm.

I am so tired of not having a smartphone. The weekend worked out perfectly well, but the ability to not have to go to a computer in order to , say, use a groupon would be nice, especially when the provider would have been willing to scan a smartphone but not a laptop. So no Lebanese Taverna. Although the evening was probably better as it

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[vvalkyri]

but is it easy to take in and out of the holster, or is the holster attached to the phone attached to the clip?

Basically I only want to use a holster when my pockets are insufficient; hence being tempted by selki's android-thats-no-bigger-than-my-razr (but isn't a clamshell so can't get slipped into my waistband or dress strap like I do the razr)

[selki]

No, no, it was a Palm Pre, not an Android.  But now I've upgraded/downsized to the newer faster smaller lighter HP Veer,  running the same WebOS (HP bought Palm).  Still no clamshell, but does have lanyard loop (and keyboard, of course).  It easily fits in my jeans CHANGE pocket.

[jdquintette]

It's bad enough just HAVING a cel phone (I managed to hold out until 2009). I think I'd rather die than walk around with one clipped to my belt. Blech.

[vvalkyri]

Boys just about always have pockets. Girls quite often don't. Hence the need to be able to clip it to something somehow. Especially at, say, a convention, when cellphones are how you ever find your companions again.

[jdquintette]

Boys just about always have pockets. Girls quite often don't.

But you often have purses, do you not?

For the record, I hate putting the damn thing in my pocket too. I have way too much crap in there already (wallet, house keys, car key, which is big as a goddam hockey puck, why is that? Office keys, change etc.) and it pulls my suit or tux out of shape if I've got a gig that needs me to dress up, and screws up the drape of casual pants too, especially linen, which is about all you can stand to wear in New Orleans this time of year.

I can see why "fanny packs" are so popular, but that's even uglier and dorkier in my opinion. 21st century men are the worst dressers, and carrying all this crap around doesn't help.:-P

[vvalkyri]

Long long time ago I was looking through a copy of "dress for success", which told men to put the stuff in their pockets they'd usually have in their pockets, /before/ having the suit tailored.

We often have purses, but if the phone's in the purse and it's a loud environ (or a needful quiet environ) I won't know it's ringing/that I have a message.

(semirelatedly, once upon a time they were giving all of we tech support people celphones for work, rather than having to hand it off. I'd looked at the specs and it didn't look like it did vibrate. A friend still has a .sig of my complaint that "If I'm to carry something with me 24/7 it had better vibrate!"

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[jdquintette]

My homephone is a 1949 rotary. On a landline.

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[vvalkyri]

I still have a rotary landline, too. But it probably dates from the late 60s.

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[jdquintette]

It cracks me up that the 1949 rotary works fine and always has, but the spiffy new push-button call-display high tech job Darlene has in her studio breaks down and has to be replaced about every four years.

Ever get some young (under 30 person) person in your house who can't figure out how to use it? I have.

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[vvalkyri]

I seldom have anybody to my apartment...