My Biggest Complaint About Cell Phones - You Shouldn’t Be Able To Turn Them Off

Cell phones don’t need “Power Off” buttons.

I can’t stand calling someone on their cell phone, leaving a message and not hearing from them for days because they had their phone turned off and forgot to turn it on.

There are two basic reasons to have a cell phone:

• To make calls
• To receive calls

You cannot do either of these when your cell phone is turned off. “I don’t want to answer the phone all the time.”, you say? Fine - don’t, that’s what voice mail is for.

The “Vibrate” button is there for a reason, learn to use it.

Older people seem to me to be more likely to turn their cell phones off instead of putting them on vibrate. I’ve even had a few people tell me they turned their cell phone off because they wanted to save the battery.

Modern cell phone batteries can last for days on standby. “Talk Time” can last for hours before recharging. Don’t turn your phone off to save the battery.

I would like to see cell phone designers secretly replace the “Power Off” function with “Vibrate”. Keep the actual button looking exactly the same, it can just be our little secret. Bury the “Power Off” function somewhere deep in a submenu so that it’s impossibly difficult to locate.