I've had an LG Lotus for the last 2+ years, and despite the fact that it kept fucking breaking and I kept having to replace it, it's been a great phone. I love the QWERTY keyboard on it, since I text a ton... I'll never be able to go back to a normal phone.

That said, my sister wants to upgrade her phone to the EVO she got, which means we have to upgrade to a data plan, so I think I'm going to be getting an EVO of my own... probably the EVO Shift. Really excited about having a touch-screen phone, and since we have a shared account with three people on it, the bill gets split so it's not so painful.

I really only use my phone right now for talking and texting. I have a few games on it, and it had a few, I dunno, pseudo-apps on it that you could install (the weather, your horoscope, movie times). I'm not sure which features of the smart phone I'll be using, but both my mom and my sister seem convinced that if I had access to the apps and a decent internet connection on my phone, I'd use it constantly. I'll admit, if the phone can do a lot of the internet browsing that I usually do on my laptop, I'm going to be hauling my laptop around a hell of a lot less.

Ash Burton wrote:

I have a basic phone, I am not a teenage girl and have no need to text message while on the go. Every time I see some droopy kid staring at his smartphone coming my way in skinny jeans I make it a point to knock him over.

Hahaha, you sound like my mother. Her and her love of basic phones.

I text much more than I talk on my phone, as does my sister. We text each other because calling is completely useless when she has four screaming kids that she can't really take her attention away from, or quiet enough, to have a coherent conversation on the phone. It's easier to text, because it takes less of her attention to reply and there's no risk of either of us misunderstanding the other when there's no shrieking to drown out the conversation. Also, most of my friends are in college like me, and it's hard to remember when their classes are, or when they're working. Texting is the best way to get a hold of them, as they can reply when it's convenient and no one runs the risk of calling someone while they're in class or on the job. Likewise, I tell my friends that it's better to text me to get a hold of me as opposed to calling, because if I'm lucky, I can answer maybe 1 out of every 5 calls I get. Too damn busy.