Why you read that I’m going phoneless, the first question you probably have is… Why?
During the week that led to my decision to try this, I made a list of several benefits of having no phone. Here’s what I came up with:
- No more phone bill
- No more cell phone contract
- No roaming fees
- No more international billing tricks
- No more phone calls during dinner
- No more being woken up in the middle of the night
- No more being distracted by Facebook or Twitter or Foursquare every free moment
- No more arguments about whether your Android is better than my iPhone
- No more agnozing over which cell carrier to go with
- No more checking my phone to see if I missed a text message
- No more worry about brain cancer
- Smaller carbon footprint
- More freedom
- More presence in the moment
- More money left at the end of the month!
My AT&T contract with the iPhone data plan costs me almost $100 each month. Over one year that’s almost $1,200 — enough to buy a round-trip ticket to Europe. Need I say more?