Give this guy some link love: Eric Sink. One only gains this sort of knowledge by experience (read: making mistakes and learning from them).

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Not one, but two drowned cell phones. one had a swim in a spill from a large coffee, the other went through the washing machine. This is our entire voice connectivity. What to do? Call in desperation for a land line? But that would bring my cable modem setup into question. (Do I really want DSL and all that installation garbage?) Do I find a refurbished phone for sale? They're not available on a small enough scale. There's the short term problem of how to make phone calls today, then the medium term of what should our setup be.

Every cell phone professional should have their cell phone as their main line and cancel any land lines they have as part of a company program. What would they learn?

* Going on hold to get customer service, set up utilities, do banking, purchase tickets, anything - turns into an even worse experience than it was previously if that can be imagined. All those minutes down the drain.

* What happens when you bring over the babysitter and you want to leave your number. What phone will the babysitter use to charge?

* If you don't have pockets, say, in your pajamas like most people don't, you won't hear your phone because it's in your purse or your pants. This means you will miss every call at nighttime. Isn't this what a phone is for, emergencies?

* You're living life on the edge. You're just one toddler+phone+toilet bowl away from lack of connectivity. For gosh sakes, it's just a phone. We should be able to rely on it like electricity and not worry about incidental damage resulting in total blackouts.

I guess at this point I'm questioning the whole thing: are cell phones useful in and of themselves or do we just put up with them. Could they possibly take off as an entertainment medium or is this just wishful thinking. How many cell phone owners have land lines: this greatly affects usage, similar to how many PDA owners still own a computer. All of them do, silly to think they won't.

Speaking of PDA's, my e740 is busted too, 10 days past warranty.

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