How Many Cell Phones Do You Have? - Page 2

One:

I only have one active one, an iPhone 3G that I've had around 18 months now. I gave my first gen iPhone to my father.

I also have an original RAZR in a drawer. Still works, but it's not being used. I really loved it at the time, despite the horrible interface. I still like the form factor better than the iPhone.

I will pick up the Google phone when it comes out in a few weeks. I might open another number, but I might just use it as a second phone on my current line since I don't need a second one. I think Apple will release a new iPhone around June, so I'll compare the three and decide which to use full time.

Speaking of too many cell phones, there's a woman on the cleaning staff at my building who has at least three. On her.

We're not sure what her name is, but we've taken to calling her "Cellularia."

Cellularia can talk on two cell phones at the same time while pushing a wheeled garbage bin down the hall. It's amazing.

Holding out for the Palm Pre to be available on Verizon. Still hoping that Palm can get it right finally.

So I carry two now: K-RAZR for voice on Verizon, and Blackberry (ancient BlueBerry model) on AT&T for email. Hate voice on Blackberry. Technically a third: the one built in to my ThinkPad with Verizon connectivity, and yea, there's a fourth one mounted to the wall that is part of the home alarm system (has to be wireless otherwise the bad guys just cut the outside phone cable and there goes the automatic call to the cops).

Indeed I pay the four wireless bills each month.

I have the first Palm phone ever (it was awful -- made by Kyocera) and the original Star Tac from Mot lying around for smiles, not connected.

Yikes, I forgot -- I have another unlocked quad-band GSM K-RAZR (bought from South Africa) and a very nice quad-band GSM Samsung that work perfectly, we take them on trips abroad (one for me, one for my wife) since our Verizon phones work nowhere but North America. We buy pre-paid/pay-as-you-go SIMs and stick them in -- anywhere in the world -- and we can communicate as we go our separate ways as we do on vacation during the day (she loves the outdoors, I hate it) ... lucky for me we do come back to one hotel room at night.

Pay-as-you-go SIMs usually expire even if there is money left on them after 6 or 12 months of no usage, so if we know we are going back (like to the UK), we stick them in, turn on the phones, link to the U.S. roaming parter (often t-mobile) and send a text message to ourselves ... this is cheap, and keeps the SIM alive for another 6 or 12 months. Great trick taught me by a world-traveler.

What's that then, 6 active? Acutally there is one more, a dedicated Virgin Mobile (not quad or even tri-band) that I got for frequent UK trips before I learned the ways of SIMs and quad-band. I text with it every so often to keep it hot, as explained above, and lend it to friends going to the UK on vacation.

6-7 I think, i total.
2 of them in daily use though, a Sony Ericsson K550i for private and a Sony Ericsson G502 for work.

Edit:
100% sure I have a Nokia 7110 around as well, but here are the 5 phones I found.

I have an old Siemens C61 circa 2004 (I only knew that by looking it up on google). No frills to speak of, but the thing keeps ticking reliably and I don't need anything fancier than that.

I have 5.

Nokia 3110, this was my first phone and it's not working perfectly anymore.

Siemens A60, works fine.

2x Nokia 2650, one silver and one black, I dropped the silver one in the ocean and it rested on the bottom for 5 minutes before I managed to fish it up, put it in the oven over night in 50c and it works to this day. The black one works fine too.

Nokia 6120 classic, my daily phone.

I recommend having atleast having one "beater" for going on holidays etc.

LG KE990 - Main
Samsung SGH-X497 - Brickberry

blackberry 8700T
nokia e61i unlocked
mwg atom life unlocked

i use: t-mobile g1 and love it.

wold part with any of the above except G1

Iphone g for main use, Mio A701 as GPS for car and geocaching, Siemens M65 when I'm going somewhere on white water rafting.

Just one, a Motorola Droid, on Verizon on my family plan. All previous phones have been donated to shelters, better than rotting away in a drawer.

HTC Wizard (Cingular 8125) unlocked
Motorola C168i (spare GoPhone, works with standard AT&T SIM)

The Wizard has a taped battery cover and some internal parts cannibalized from another Wizard, but it still works. The Motorola is around just in case the Wizard breaks which is entirely possible considering its age.

If I ever decided to give up smartphones altogether I'd probably get the Motorola F3. I think of my Wizard as a PDA with a phone glued to the side. I never use text messaging or anything silly like that.

This only one

One uber cheapo phone. I even hate carrying it. I'm not into phones, but its almost become mandatory to carry one so people can bug you.