Cell/mobile phones are annoying. Atleast in my world. I don’t have one, never have had one. I will eventually have one, but hopefully the world will end before I’m forced into a state of perpetual availability and inconvenience. Yes, inconvenience. I refuse to believe that the annoying things will make my life better unless paired with atleast 2-3 other devices (e.g. mp3 player, camera, pda, etc…). And there really hasn’t been one perfect cell phone created yet.
And damn are they annoying. Andrew Monk and others conducted a survey regarding how annoying they seemed to people listening in on two commuter conversations – one face-to-face and one between two cell phones. The results are obvious. Read it here: http://www.useit.com/alertbox/20040412.html