7. You’ve spent more on accessories than on your phone.
It started out with something harmless like a car charger, but then you stepped up to the car FM transmitter, armband, a different case for each day of the week, spare batteries, screen protectors, a stereo Bluetooth adapter, wireless speakerphone, and even a dock powered by tube amps. You realize that it’s just a phone, not a kid, right? And that none of it will work when you inevitably upgrade to the next version six months from now?
6. you have alerts telling you when to do every thing in your life
Business meetings, doctors appointments, and group meetings. All valid events to put in your phones. When you need your phone to prod you through every step of the day, it might as well be your respirator or dialysis machine.
5. You read about your phone on the phone
Not content to just dream about your phone , fondle it in your pocket all day long, and relish every chance to use it, you actulally invest time in finding out more about it, while using it. You read through the latest TUAW on your iphone, or threads on the forums from your bold. Your phone is no longer a means to an end, ot is the end.
4. A full battery charge barely lasts the day.
After brushing your teeth and washing your face, your last ritual before bed is plugging in that smartphone. Because if you don’t, there’s no way that sucker’s lasting another full day after the workout you gave it today. We’ll admit that the battery life on some modern smartphones is pretty dismal, but if you’re downing a full charge day after day, you might need to lay off the juice.
3. when you meet people with the same phone, you can only talk about the phone.
“you have an iphone too?oh awesome, have you tried the PDXBus app yet?”
“yea this case is pretty cool, but I am getting this metallic one soon that’s even slimmer”
If this sounds at all like a conversation you might have upon meeting someone with the same smartphone, you should reconsider your smartphone addiction and your social life.
2. you feel a brief moment of panic when you touch your pocket(or grope to the bottom of your purse) and it’s gone.
We are not talking about the lost phone here, just realising you left it at home. And feeling the skipped heartbeat of sheer terror.
“what if try to call me?”
“what will my twitter followers think?”
How can I get back to it,,so these questin are prove of your addiction.
1. you use it in the bathroom
This is just wrong. But not for hygienic reasons as you all suspect. If you’re using your smartphone on the can, you’ve just robbed yourself of your last refuge from interruption. You’ve tainted mankind’s last fortress of solitude by dragging the entire equivalent of a computer into the eqution. Can’t you live ive minutes without SMS?Really?
