Without getting into the exact models (which change all the time anyway), who makes your (primary) mobile phone?
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I don't even have one 
You're kidding aren't you?
No and I can live fine this way so far. I had one in my former company and people usually tend to call for every crap every time and everywhere.
I only have one when I have call-in-duty for my company or I take one with me (turned off of course ;)) when I go on a trip on the road in case the car has a problem. This one is a robust design and works as a phone - all I ever need. For notices I take old paper and pencil or a simple text file on my workstation.
For me those devices are still just phones. I get no joy as toys out of them, nor do I like when those young to mid teens run around like zombies non-stop chit-chatting, typing sms and such (I know there are older ages doing that too, but not that massed from what I saw). Companies lure out money of the children's pockets for stupid ring tones and logos. TV is full of mindless comercials for these. There is already too much commercial on TV as if we would have needed those too. That's why I rarely watch TV at all since the last 10-15 years. Only a DVD/Blue-Ray sometimes or ARTE or 3sat (the europeans here might know).
I also dislike when people get phone calls in a restaurant, in the bus and talk as if they had to yell because the other person is so far away... Or in the supermarket arguing with someone what to buy or not.. etc. Once there were simple buying lists on paper written with pencil and flexibility was a talent the one that used the list should have or not. Everything is multi-media today. This is way too much in my eyes - often rude and very decadent.
I also know and accept there is people that really need them for their job, for reading mails or as calendar. But I think there is far too much hype around those things, especially those damn expensive iPhones etc. which is just a toy, a status thingy.
Some time after I disliked the overuse of such devices especially by people that do not care about their surroundings as described above, I saw a documentation on TV about how this mobile-mania effects nature and people:
Coltan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Yes, I know there is plenty of such things in life where we have a bad effect on nature (we are just part of it but most people do not understand that anymore I feel). But at least this is one is easy for me to evade.
... basically I lied, as you see in the 1st lines above (the one I take with me when in car). I possess a mobile but I less than rarely ever use it - maybe summed up less than 10 mins in a year, no joke. This one I have for about 2 years now only cause my brother's office was selling them for low price and is a robust outdoor model and it was cheap.
People around me change their moblies cause of some subsidised contracts giving them a new one piling the old models in some drawer. I'll stay with my robust one until it dies. And if do not really need one at this time, I will not get a new one. Btw. I handle my car(s) the same and go well with it 
Most other germans I know have a new car every 3-4 years (The car - the germans most loved child ;)). I do not share their view^^. We are back to the iPhone-status thingy at this point hehe.
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I am totally addicted to smart phones currently with a Nokia E63 and an old E61 as a backup. The latest version of Google Maps has voice-based search. Very cool. I was driving in Bangkok the other day and said "Indian Food" and it was fun watching the various places for Indian food pop up on my map.
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Me too. I don't remember the last time I made a telephone call, though 
SMS, internet, tram times, weather reports, Pub disputes (aka Wikipedia, google), etc, fantastic...
But phone calls? Nah!
siemens. Was not on the list. They (Siemens) do not even produce phones any more.
Sometimes i think maybe it is a sin that people change their phones and cars frequently
Cell phones are kind of an odd case. With all the special plans and deals and leasing and lockouts and incompatibilities and SIM chips and activation and all that garbage designed to prevent folks from going out and buying the phone they want, when they want and using it with the service they want, how many people can honestly say they own their own cellphone?
With that loss of consumer control, rampant waste is to be expected. I suspect I'll be forced to upgrade sooner or later.
I've starting to shop for a future HTC phone running Android to replace my Nokia E63.
"Where were you when Kennedy was assassinated?"
"Where were you during the moon landing?"
"Where were you when Elvis died?"
"Where were you when the iPhone4 was released?"
I just came back from town and there was a mob of people camped outside the Apple Store. (the fabled handset is released in Switzerland tomorrow) (today now!!)
How sad is that?!
What compels grown human-beings to lodge themselves outside a shop for 12 hours in the hope of getting something that is likely pre-ordered up to the middle of autumn?
Kids these days!
It's a social event... they have nothing better to do, so it's OK. Much better than other social activities. Kids will not get grounded or punished for waiting for an iPhone 
Changed vote to Samsung. Just purchased the Galaxy S.
I rock my iphone4
is one really important ?
Purchased the Galaxy S too yesterday. Top marks among the smartphones in the current line up. No change of vote necessary.
Congrats. Let us know what you think after using it for a few days. I call mine "a work of art" now. It is more than a phone... it is my good friend, LOL
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