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I am pathetic.....I have a laptop for work, a phone at work, a Blackberry issued by my company for phone and email. I now have consolidated by Blackberry for personal and business so can check calls, emails, calendars, tasks etc for both. I also have a Blackberry Playbook tablet that synchronizes all of that and I am posting this message from my personal MacBook.......I love it all and hate it at the same time.

I have Facebook and Twitter and now my company uses Salesforce.com which has "Chatter which is like Facebook for business.

I have LinkedIn too and too many passwords that make me dizzy.

Guess I might be a Technoholic and need to go to a Smartphone Anonymous meeting soon!!!

use my phone when i need to...

I'd have to say YES! We have 3 smartphones, 2 iPads and one Macbook Pro.

The smartphones get used frequently throughout the day.

Pooh in Chicago...???? We're in Chicago!

We have Consumer Cellular. Love it. Nothing fancy. No contract. Cheap. Free phones. They use A t & T equipment. Great for people like me who like to use a telephone to talk to other people. Internet and messaging make me walk into walls and trip into fountains.

Definitely ! Too easy to do, find , read, game, oh yea I even talk on it if I can't text to the person 📖

Chris

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Originally Posted by Down Sized (Post 511681)

How did we ever live without them. Let alone the iPad.:BigApplause:

We did manage to get along without them......until we tried and LIKED...:smiley: they do make things lots easier to do, don"'t they!!!! Wonderful tools and extremely helpful in my estimation. Ya, how did we get along without them....:clap2::clap2:

I am addicted to my IPad and playing cribbage on it. I wish, however, it would be smarter in the corrections it makes to mistyped words!
Bring it everywhere, books loaded, Internet, mail, Facebook ......

Guilty - - - as charged! That reminds me. I gotta charge my iPhone and my iPad!:024:

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Originally Posted by pooh (Post 511655)

I managed to not use phone or pad for HOURS today.....;)
I can stop any time, yes, I can stop any time, quick, what app do I get to help with electronics addictions.....:a20:

:Screen_of_Death:
Outta work App:mornincoffee:

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Originally Posted by memason (Post 511840)

I'd have to say YES! We have 3 smartphones, 2 iPads and one Macbook Pro.

The smartphones get used frequently throughout the day.

Pooh in Chicago...???? We're in Chicago!

I got my first smart phone almost 3 months ago -- based on jojo's recommendation -- got a Samsung Galaxy SII. Now the SIII will be going on sale very soon, but Sprint won't let me upgrade for 20 months :(. But I really like the phone. When I was in TV earlier this month I used the phone's GPS app when my TomTom could not find a couple of addresses in TV. I use the phone a lot to check the weather, look up recipes, listen to music and to watch the news. Haven't tried to make a deposit to my bank account yet, but Citibank's app. lets you take a photo of the front and back of a check to make a deposit. Chase Bank also advertises this feature. I also bought a "preowned" first generation iPad in March that serves my needs quite well.

memason and Pooh, hope you are enjoying the great Chicago weather. If you are still in Chicago on Thursday, it is supposed to get near 100 degrees! Second driest June in Chicago history -- we have had less than 1/2 inch of rain since June 1.

My day starts with Siri and ends with Siri... Addicted? Hmm.