People love their mobile phones

How much money would someone have to pay you in order for you to give up your cell phone? According to a poll by Britain’s Carphone Warehouse, the average answer is a whole lot more than you’d think. The popular retailer discovered that 1 in 3 people wouldn’t give up their cell phone for 1 Million pounds, roughly the equivalent of $2 Million  Whoa. 76% of respondents believed that it was a "social requirement" to have a mobile phone. Social requirement? How about a business requirement? $2 Million is mighty tempting, but at the end of the day I think we’d rather hold on to the fleet of 9xxx BlackBerrys that just came in HTC Kaiser than risk social leper status.

[Via Gizmodo]

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12 Responses to “People love their mobile phones”

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    victor says:

    @BG or who ever posted this, what is that of 9xxx? Don’t play with me like that.

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    mobilecontrol says:

    Yea, watch the taunting there!

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    Tim says:

    I,ll take the cash and a pager.

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    Avi says:

    Yo, that’s not cool. Dont play with our feelings like this. Like they say in Brazil,”Toda brincadeira tem um fundo de verdade.”
    Loosely translated: Every joke has some truth to it.

    So where’s the pics of the 9xxx?!

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    John says:

    “So where’s the pics of the 9xxx?!”

    More like, “Where’re the contests to win the 9xxx?!”

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    victor says:

    @jhon you are so right. But doesn’t anyone think that we might be going a bit too far and assuming something that isn’t true.

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    chris says:

    wow some people are really crazy..

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    john says:

    Hmmm, I’d have to give it up forever? Not sure if I could handle that.

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    Mark says:

    Well, I would give up my Treo 750 for a million bucks but only because my HTC Trinity is in the mail.

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    Katherine says:

    OK, let’s get back to the topic at hand. WHERE ARE THE BB 9xxx PIX???????

    Kath

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    Jeff B. says:

    I want BB 9xxx pix darnit!!!!! And for the last sentence, DAMN STRAIGHT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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    Leo says:

    I heard this story on the radio this morning but read it first here. . . right thread. . . check.

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