How Many Cell Phones Have You Lost?
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Madame X at My Open Wallet mentioned in a recent post the theft of her $450 cell phone that she loved:
I did have moments of groaning over how crazy it was to spend that much on a phone, but it was a great phone. I used it for about 2 years and would still be using it now, probably, if it hadn't been stolen.
After this experience, she wasn't willing to pay $450 for a phone again.
I don't blame her. For me, cell phones are now right up there with sunglasses as my most loseable possession. I would never pay anything remotely expensive for a phone because I know I would lose it or it would get stolen. No Apple iPhone for me.
I've lost three phones. The first two I lost in mundane ways—left one behind at a restaurant, the other at a clothing store where I'd been trying things on and somehow my phone got lost in the shuffle. The last one I lost in a little more interesting way. It fell off of me while I was on a roller coaster & I didn't realize it was gone until a little later. Do you think it was there when I went back to look? You're right, it was never heard from again, literally.
I hear more and more about what cell phones can do and how much more they'll be able to do in the future, when they'll just read your mind and call whoever you want without you pressing a button. But I think I'll always be on the low end of the cell phone range, unable to take photos with my camera, left out of the text messaging crowd, sullen in the corner while others are living it up, all due to my inability to keep my hands on any object not physically connected to my being.
How many phones have you lost? What's your most loseable item?
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None, but I did found cell phone ,let see about over ten times. I found one cell phone recently last month on my way to work,last year ,I found four . what a strange things to do with that fone. most of them are found on road side of street?!?!
As self-serving as my comment may be, the truth is it is also helpful.
Because the truth is we lose lots of gadgets, and those gadgets all contain irreplaceable content!
The majority of people who find lost items want/try to find the owner.
So my company, zReturn, makes a simple tagging/website system that allows someone to tag and register the valuables on our website.
When someone finds your lost item, using our website they can get a message to you at the speed of the internet, yet without you plastering all your personal contact info on everything you own.
For less than $2 an item you can really help to protect all of your gadgets.
Fortunately, I have yet to lose mine. As absent-minded as I can be at times, I’m surprised that hasn’t occured yet. I usually leave my cell phone in the car as the only time I use it is when I’m away from home.