From what I have observed it seems that there could be a bit of one upmanship with the style of phone, the most stylish, trendyish, hi-tec. This is mostly with the young it seems. Boys seem to like all singing and dancing state of the art phones and girls like the most stylish phone to impress their friends and of course all that texting is showing everyone how so popular they are. The mobile phone has it's uses especially if you are running late or you need to get an important message to someone but like another thread said I hate the thought of being at everyone's beck and call. Just lately on the odd occasion I have left the thing at home and it has been nice not to have to keep checking it, no matter how you might hate the phone it is human nature to take a look. I tend to keep it on silent anyway and text or ring people back later. After all we all managed before didn't we? To be honest the main use of the phone for me is the alarm clock which I set in the morning and the default games are handy when say stuck on a bus in a traffic jam.