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Mn Dave

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Was wondering how long a flip cell phone will last carrying it in my pants pocket. Does dust get to it after awhile and quit working???? I was advised to carry my cell phone all the time now because of my wifes elderly parents in case something happens to them they can get ahold of me.
Thanks for the advise.
 
Mine last a couple of years carried in my shirt or pants pockets.. Worst seems to be when you sweat and the phone gets damp. I have had a Samsung Rugby since last fall, it is supposedly Mil-Spec regarding dust and moisture resistance. So far, seems like a good phone and even has a gasket on the battery cover.
 
If you can get a cover for it, that'd be better. What I would advise against is trying to wear it in any kind of riggin' that rides on your belt. I don't care what they say it will fall off. Mine found the opportunity whilst usin' the neighbor's tractor to rototill the garden, and popped off, I would guess on one of those occasions where I twisted a little further in the seat to keep an eye on the proceedings. Took me an hour with a fork to find it, and it wasn't pretty when I did.
 
I carry mine in my jeans pocket constantly. I tried belt clips and cases, but phone was always knocked off. Jeans pocket works the best so far. I've had no problems with dust at all. I have a Motorola 365, I believe. Mine never last very long though, about 6 months is max. I'm glad to have Signal Insurance. It's never the dust or anything of that nature, as one might expect. The last one was crushed under a tractor tire, the one before that was lost while sorting cattle (belt clip), and the one before than is still at the bottom of a manure pit underneath a neighbors hog confinement building.

Iowa Farmer
 
Makes me wonder how anyone ever survived before cell phones were invented ?
Everyone is always yacking on one !
 
A good one will last me a year. I am very hard on one. I have never seen "dirt" hurt one, even when I was catching chickens, the dirt only made the screen hard to see. What hurts them is getting real wet and getting droped or ran over. From what I have seen if you don't spend your life in an office a phone is better off in you pocket than one of them cute little belt clip the tie wearers uses.

Good luck with you in laws.

Dave
 
Buy a cheap trac-fone with a simms card in it, I get about 6 months before I crack the screen or break the hinge and have to replace it. You can save all your numbers on the card and just swap the card out when you buy the replacement.
 
one in my truck as long as I was in business, when I closed my shop I turned the phone off and haven't talked on a mobile phone since.

Looks to me like it would do as well in your pocket as mine did in my truck driving through fields with the windows down.
 
What about the ****** (I almost said idjits) who you see in a restaurant or walking around in Wal-mart with one of those ear clip thingys. Saw a fellow with whom I'm slightly acquainted (he's in his 40s) with one; am good friends with his ex-mother-in-law and asked her about it; she said he thought it made him look 'cool'..........yeah, right!
 
It is better to carry it in your pocket than on your side, it seems like they ALWAYS find a way to fall off. I found if I have to lay on the ground to work on something I had to take the phone off or I couldent roll around without laying on top of it, always seemed in the way. Now I carry it in my coat pocket, in the summer I leave it in the tractor tool box, so I dont lose it during haying. I cant hear it ringing over the tractor either so, I just check every so often to see if I had any calls. I also cant even feel it vibrate over the equipment. Ya a suit and tie can carry it on there side, but not people working around anmials and equipment. J
 
I modified my side pouch so the belt goes through the pouch. I just cut a slit in each side. When the velcro goes bad on the flap I toss the pouch and get another one. The phone gets so dirty the numbers wear off the buttons from the flip lid rubbing on them but it's never conked out from the dirt. Then there was the time I lost my balance bending over to retrieve the fish I had just caught, but that's another story. The new cell phones are a little more water resistant if you buy the right one. Jim
 
i tried the belt clips, both kinds, and carrying them in pants pockets. so far i bush hogged two phones, then lost one belt knife off the backhoe and the other belt knife went thru the zero turn mower and got splattered down the side of the grain bins. i been thinking about getting some kind of pouch and maybe a necklace deal to clip the thing around my overhauls and stick it in the bib pocket.
 
Dont were it on a neckless like that! You might start a new trend, you know how the THEY were big gold chains with Mercedese emblems on them. Ya, now they will have cell phones hanging of there necks, along with there timbos and flat brimmed hats. cool man.
 
I ended up swimming with one and the other went through the wash when I carried it in my pants pocket.

I now carry it in my shirt pocket... Falls out when I tie my shoe.

Jeff
 
verizon has one called bolder its water,dust fire and shock proof my buddy has one and he put it in 5 gal. of water over night put it in a camp fire for 10 min no problem
 
nah, wouldnt wear it around my neck, try and clip it to something. my luck i'd get the necklace hung up on something. maybe lanyard is a better word.
 
I carry mine in a belt clip that I got at Lowes, about $6.00. You can clip it on your belt with the metal clip, or run your belt thru it. Works for me,on and off equipment never lost one yet. If the velco goes bad or you don't trust it just put a rubber band around it. I seem to break everything I put in my pockets.
 
as a truck driver I used one and when I felt a bit bored and wanted to talk to someone it sure was easy and not worse than talking to a person in the pass. seat. My phone has voice command so all I had to do was touch the button and tell it to call the person or even the #s I wanted it to dial
 
Haven't had any problem with it quitting because of dirt or such . Most of them may survive a washing machine but I have never heard of one working after it went thru the dryer, BTDT
 
(quoted from post at 13:16:15 03/04/09) Buy a cheap trac-fone with a simms card in it, I get about 6 months before I crack the screen or break the hinge and have to replace it. You can save all your numbers on the card and just swap the card out when you buy the replacement.
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That's what I have, a Tracfone with SIM card.
 
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The website has a less painful idea.

Dave
 
feed grinders are hard on "EM Too . LOL . Longest Phone I kept was nearly 3 yrs . I like to put mine in Bib coveralls in winter , and T shirt pocket in Summer , . That way I can usually Hear or feal it ringing.. since
Fathers Day 2002 , I am on my 4th cell Phone . Lost the current one in a 40 acre feild spreading Potash , HAD IT IN MY HIP POCKET . Wife and I Went there at midnite with her cell phone in the queit. Rite away I heard it End Beep. Then lost contact We worked a grid pattern and after 14 tries ,. I could Here The GOOD , BAD and UGLY ringtone. Wife And I celebrated Our Find then , on such a Beautiful nite . LIFE is GOOD ..
 
I keep it in the bib pocket of my overalls.Its turned off so no one can bother me.My wife insists I have one because I work alone in the woods .Cell phones are useful but I dont care for them.
 
I always keep mine in my poket unless I'm doing hay- then I want nothing in my pockets. I used to keep one of my phones on a belt clip or a case, but the screen got more scrathched up and it got dropped more times that way than just keeping it in my pocket.

I lost my last phone last Friday, but I put in in the cubby by the steering wheel in my truck, and when I was messing around it shot out of there and ended up falling out.

I was walking my dog tonight and I happened to find it. It was down near the mail box. Now I can have the numbers transferred to my new phone.

Donovan from Wisconsin
 
I carry one of those sprint rough service rubber phones in my pocket all the time,that keeps it like new.I was always dropping or scratching up my old phone with the belt holder.I've dropped this one 10 feet to the cement with no problem.
 
Don't carry one on me Had to on job for 10 years. One of the happyest days of my life was the day I turned in cell,keys & credit cards Thanked the President of Company for employing me for 30 years. But told him it was time to move on.
 
(quoted from post at 13:16:03 03/04/09) Put it in a small zip lock plastic bag and carry it in your pocket. Sweating and dust problem solved.
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I was thinking about suggesting the same thing.
 
I put mine in flanel shirt pockes in the winter but don't like'm in t shirt pockets. Was cleaning up a mess here at work one night and had one fall out of a t shirt pocket that did not have a button to hold it closed. Phones don't like 13% bleach at all! It worked fine for a few weeks but the part where you plug it up to charge turned green and I had to scrape it with a pocket knife every few days so it would charge. After a few weeks it got to where there was no more copper to turn green.

Dave
 
My last phone lasted me four years without much trouble. The battery cover broke off when I dropped it on the pavement for the millionth time. Just replaced it so I could get some new features, it was still working. It was a Sanyo flip. Got plenty dirty on the farm and never caused a problem.

Before that I had a non-flip type hand-held. Bought a case to "protect" it. The case held dirt in and scratched the display until I could no longer read it. Would have been better off in a pocket.

I now have a Motorola i560 that is supposed to be "rugged" and handle abuse. Seems tougher than the last one...

Dad's only trouble with his phone is falling out of his pocket in the field and trying to find it the next day when he realizes it's gone!
 
I keep my cell phone in my pocket because I can only get about a week out of a belt clip or pouch before I wreck it. Lint seems to get into the phone and cause problems. I keep a small Torx screwdriver handy to open the phone up and clean it out when that happens.
 
I carry my phone, when I carry it, in my shirt pocket. If I'm wearing a jacket, I don't bother buttoning the pocket. If I'm not, I button the pocket so the phone doesn't drop out. My pants pockets get awful dirty and linty. Not only that, but I am likely to lift something heavy or something and put the squeeze on the phone. As to wearing it on my belt, that is a non-starter. I gave up wearing a wristwatch years ago because their average life expectancy on my wrist was about a week.

Christopher
 
I'm at 18 months on this one. Carry it in my pants or shirt pocket every day. The last one wasnt a flip phone and I carried it in my shirt pocket, it lasted 2 years, until it went in the pond.
 
I don't need a cell phone. The wife says I do. I carry a cell phone. It goes in my pants pocket along with some pocket change. Found a leather cigerette pack holder laying in the street. Cut two slots in the flap for the belt and my phone fit in it perfect. Hangs on my belt like my pliers.
 
pouch on belt.
the last cell phone i had was pretty tough i dropped in cow water tank of the tractor i seem to remember running with a tractor one day i lost it mrs 730 had keep calling it bull was standing on it. a smart guy friend said bull was trying to send me a text message.
what finally did it in i knocked it off of counter and phone landed in cat's water dish and shorted it out.
 
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