Abraham wrote:karder,
I applaud your future resolve.
Few NEED an I-phone - granted a FEW do, but not most.
Many think without a smart phone they'd be lost. They're wrong. They're addicted to them. It's an illness.
Abraham, you made me laugh. Hard. I saw the poll, voted in it (I don't leave without my phone), and then looked at the results. I saw that there was ONE respondent who voted "didn't see the need", and I thought to myself "I'll bet that was Abraham"!
Of course, I actually agree with you on one level. But I use my phone for a lot more than just making phone calls, and although I haven't don't an actual time study, I'd be willing to bet that I use it as a telephone only about half the time I'm using it...... including sometimes using it to post on this forum. It's a camera, a gps, a calendar, a ballistic calculator, a banking tool, a health monitor, and an Internet access point in the field for my laptop. And that's just off the top of my head.
That said, when I am blessed enough to retire to my future farm, I'll probably stop carrying it all the time.