cracked the screen on my cellphone last night. I need a new one now, but I do not want to renew my contract. Anyone have any recomendations where to buy a new one?

[Anarky]

<div style='font: 11pt ; text-align: left; '>I am looking on ebay:

<a href="http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi ... 61&rd=1</a>

Cingular is my service provider and the cell phone is unlocked, so it seems like it would work. Uhhh any input?</div>

[the Gray]

<div style='font: 12pt ; text-align: left; '>It's probably my most hated invention of the last 20 years, I despise them. If someone needs to contact me, I'm either at home or leave a damned message.

That said, I do understand they are vital for 'some' business. But come on, people functioned in the everyday business world for a long time without them.

So until that Combination comes (which looks pretty close) I'll keep a landline. And when it does, I'll probably just leave it at home instead of a landline.

Gray is a bitter man today.

Hope you find what you want!</div>

[Tessian]

<div style='font: 11pt Dominion; text-align: left; '>lol who shat in your corn flakes?</div>

[Zeus]

<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '>I just don't like to pay for it. Too expensive IMO</div>

[Sephy]

<div style='font: 12pt "Times New Roman"; text-align: left; '>Hey, you know this thing called technology? Its really revolutionizing people's lives. You should get off of your computer and play with a slide rule, since we functioned without them for so long. PS everyone has a cellphone now.</div>

[Eric]

<div style='font: 11pt ; text-align: left; '>You sound like a tired old man Fenix...errr I mean Gray. :P</div>

[Shellie]

<div style='font: 10pt georgia; text-align: left; '>Sine's sister did the same thing. Find the same phone on ebay, but make sure you get one that matches your service(At&T, Cingular, etc) Call the company and give them the serial number and they will activate it for you.</div>

[Lox]

<div style='font: bold 9pt ; text-align: left; '>In fact, that may be a sign that it's a good technology.

I love my cell phone. I couldn't imagine not having it. I am never home. On a weekend, I could be anywhere, out shopping with my g/f, at the movies, whereever. And I want my friends to be able to contact me without having to check my home phone every 30 minutes to make sure I don't have any messages.

I use my cell so much, I have the cheapest home phone plan you can get and it basically acts as my telemarketer-interceptor. Any calls I make, even at home, are from my cell.</div>

[Eric]

<div style='font: 11pt ; text-align: left; '>I'm using the new generation of Nokia phones, all I gotta do is buy a phone and transfer that wonderful lil Sim Chip.</div>

[the Gray]

<div style='font: 12pt ; text-align: left; '>lol, I knew I'd get reactions like these. But seriously, no not everyone has/uses a cellphone nowadays. And Technology doesn't revolutionize people's lives, in my view it stunts it.</div>

[Kupek]

<div style='font: 10pt verdana; text-align: left; padding: 0% 10% 0% 10%; '>Go a week without looking up bits of information on the internet.</div>

[Sephy]

<div style='font: 12pt "Times New Roman"; text-align: left; '>Why are you even on a computer right now? Who are you, Strom Thurmond?</div>

[the Gray]

<div style='font: 12pt ; text-align: left; '>I'm in a love hate relationship with Technology. I'm amazed and excited by the possiblities, yet it also detaches you in other ways from truly relevant things.

I've lived for 4 months with no access to TV, Internet or even phones. It was liberating, and I could do it again easily. After a week, you don't really miss it all that much. At least I don't. It's a personality thing. I probably shouldn't have posted like I did, but It is how I feel.

If you love it great. But I find Cellphones to be one of the most annoying intrusive inventions ever. I really do despise them. i don't want to hear your private conversations when I'm out in public, I don't want to hear your shit while i'm in the supermarket line. I hate your silly ringtone, and want to kick you in the head when you almost clothesline me to take a pic with your phone. All happen frequently, and I hate it.

But that's me being cranky. I could probably write a tonne about the technology I like. Cellphones are just a personal thing.</div>

[the Gray]

<div style='font: 12pt ; text-align: left; '>I'd explain it, but it's fairly long and personal. I realize the hypocrisy, believe me!</div>

[Kupek]

<div style='font: 10pt verdana; text-align: left; padding: 0% 10% 0% 10%; '>I largely agree with you on cellphones - I don't have one, don't feel a need for one (other than saving money) - but lumping one piece of technology in with all others is not rational.</div>

[the Gray]

<div style='font: 12pt ; text-align: left; '>You are right, it wasn't meant to be such a broad generalization.</div>

[Zeus]

<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '>ON a personal level, I can see the benefits of a cell. But try and have one for work when you're working 12 hour days and it not enough or just when you want to be left alone. And if you have one and turn it off randomly, it kinda defeats the purpose</div>

[Zeus]

<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '>Now that I agree with, however, I feel that technology has gone from enhancing people's live to intruding on people's lives and making them forget what being a society or social creatures is really about.......</div>

[Zeus]

<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '>Didn't realize you were British, Mr. Tonne LOL</div>

[Lox]

<div style='font: bold 9pt ; text-align: left; '>Just ignore it if you want to be left alone. I can silence the ring on mine with a button, and if I'm eating dinner, I just let the voicemail pick up.</div>

[Lox]

<div style='font: bold 9pt ; text-align: left; '>Cuz I hate those things too...people who talk in line or when they're paying, people who talk so loud that everyone around can hear them. Those are annoying. But that's not the cell phone, that's the moron using it.

I don't do any of those things because it's rude to other people. I use my cell phone as a way to stay connected to my friends without all of the missed calls, the wasted time, etc.</div>

[Lox]

<div style='font: bold 9pt ; text-align: left; '>I think all new phones are using the SIM chip now. My Samsung uses it too.</div>

[Flip]

<div style='font: 10pt Tahoma; text-align: left; '>what does it do?</div>

[Eric]

<div style='font: 11pt ; text-align: left; '>Well basically, if I switch the chip my service just gets activated in the new phone, some chips also carry over text messages and phone books, but it might be dependant on the phone.</div>

[Lox]

<div style='font: bold 9pt ; text-align: left; '>Mine brings over my phone book and any text messages saved on the SIM card. Very nice feature.</div>

[Zeus]

<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '>That's what I meant when I said "it defeats the purpose". A cell phone is so that you can be in touch at all times, not when you feel like it. Otherwise, you just get back to them when you're at home...</div>

[Lox]

<div style='font: bold 9pt ; text-align: left; '>No, actually. Sometimes you may want to be left alone and sometimes you may want to be available. Having a cell phone leaves it up to your discretion. Notice I didn't say "always ignore it"</div>

[Flip]

<div style='font: 10pt Tahoma; text-align: left; '>agreed, 90% of the time i have mine on vibrate and when it rings simply check who it is and most likely not answer it unless its family or i am expecting someone.</div>

[SineSwiper]

<div style='font: 10pt "EngraversGothic BT", "Copperplate Gothic Light", "Century Gothic"; text-align: left; '>No, the purpose is to have a portable phone that doubles as an answering machine. You do not need to be a slave to a cell phone if you don't want to.</div>

[Shellie]

<div style='font: 10pt georgia; text-align: left; '>You might also be able to find a place that can replace the screen on your phone. I think they were going to charge Sine's sister 20 bucks, but they never had the screen she needed in stock.</div>

[Zeus]

<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '>It's not being a slave, it's eliminating the entire purpose of it to turn it off. Otherwise, you just get an answering machine from your phone provider which you can check from anywhere</div>

[Kupek]

<div style='font: 10pt verdana; text-align: left; padding: 0% 10% 0% 10%; '>The ability to turn a phone off does not magically turn a mobile phone into a mobile answering machine.</div>

[Zeus]

<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '>What I meant was, if you're gonna just turn it off when you feel like it and get your messages later, you may as well get an answering machine for your land line from your telephone company and you can check those messages from anywhere.</div>

[Lox]

<div style='font: bold 9pt ; text-align: left; '>But then when you want to answer those calls, your landline answering machine doesn't turn into a magical device that becomes portable. A cell phone can do both.</div>

[Julius Seeker]

<div style='font: 12pt ; text-align: left; '>Come on Gray! Even my grandparents have Cell Phones =P They're quite handy, especially for Utopia =)</div>

[Julius Seeker]

<div style='font: 12pt ; text-align: left; '>Come on Gray! Even my grandparents have Cell Phones =P They're quite handy, and for the past few years have been almost as essential as computers to an easier lifestyle.</div>

[the Gray]

<div style='font: 12pt ; text-align: left; '>No, I disagree completely. I see no way in which having a Cell phone would make my life easier or more rewarding.</div>