I have mine with me all the time for emergencies.  It may become more important for me when I am put on the transplant list and may be called any time.  Other than that, it's not really that important to me and I don't have it glued to the side of my head like a lot of people do.

Please feel free to comment or bump - to enable the poll to attract a reasonable number of voters. Thanks

I have my mobile with me all the time, I have to in case someone from work wants me, I also use it as my camera for the mutts, I also use it for my alarm
The only time I ever switch it off is if I'm in the cinema which is rarely.

And I did get severely agitated once because I forgot to take it out with me  

I've also recently upgraded and it has maps and everything

I wouldn't marry my phone though, I'm not quite as crazy as them people that marry their fences and things
There's a name for that, which escapes me right now!

My mobiles (Blackberry for work and my own personal one) are permanently glued to me. Couldn't do without them and use them all the time.

I always have my mobile phone with me when I'm out, but I don't use it much.    I would never use it anywhere where I could disturb other people, such as on public transport, and I would never, ever consider answering it when I was being served in a shop - I think it is SO rude when I see people talking on their phones whilst they are paying for their groceries in the supermarket.   I have never used textspeak when I send text messages, and most people who text me know that I ignore messages if they use textspeak.

I have mine with me most of the time because of work, if I don't have it with me it's because I am with Mr C and he has his, if they want one of us they can ring his mobile.  It also has a reasonably good camera on it, so I use it a lot for those unexpected candid shots.

I have one in my bag.
Never use it, unless it's an emergency.
Never switch it on, unless there's an emergency.
Don't leave the house much.
Usually have a kid or husband with me, if I do, and they always have one on them.

£10 credit will last me years.

I never had a mobile until 2005. Wish I hadn't given in and got one now because now i cant leave the house without it. I hate talking on the phone, really really despise it so i text a lot. I can text without even looking at the key pad (well we got to be good at something). I keep it to my body constantly, if you put it down you never know who might sneak a peak

In the past few months ive ended up with two, dont ask how, but its cause one has free calls and one has free texts its getting stupid.

I have mine with me at all times and I text a lot with it, but really only ever 3 people really.
I've got a free thing with o2 where if I top up £10 a month I get 300 free texts the next month and that used to see me far but it's doing it less and less recently.

My boys like you.  I go him one for his birthday last year, ready for him starting Senior School, it came with £10 credit, I topped it up last Christmas for him with £20 he still has £18.50 credit.  The first £10 went because he stupidly text one of those 'get a free tune but we'll take £3.50 a week off you anyway' numbers not realising what happened.

I have one, and have started using it a bit more recently since my son is at Uni.
My phone wouldn't reing in a public place - usually because no one ever calls me on it.

I can beat that, Cinds - my younger son got a phone to go to secondary school when he began Year 7, with £10 credit. He still has the same phone and about £8.00 worth of credit - he is in the 6th form!!

I have got my phone with me at all times, if im somewhere that i shouldnt have mobile on like at school assembly etc, i have it on mute. It costs me way toooooooooo much but at the moment it cant be helped , this months bill is £102

I always take my mobile if I go out, otherwise it is usually switched off.
BTW, where`s the "don`t know how to text" option?

 You can pretty much get unlimited calls and texts for about £35 a month!

*lovingly strokes iphone*

I take my mobile to gigs and the cinema, but switch it off before the show starts. When I get outside afterwards, I switch it on again.

I never answer the phone if I'm being served in a shop, because I've been on the receiving end of that behaviour in the past and it's unbelievably rude!!
On public transport I'll only answer if I'm not near many people, there's nothing worse than someone sitting right next to you going 'YEAH I'M ON THE BUS'

I am on my second mobile, both of them were given to me by friends. The one I have is an old Nokia, probably from the rave era as it lights up different colours when it rings or gets a text and all the tunes preprogrammed in are techno types - apart from the normal Nokia tune (the one Dom Joly has on his giant phone!)
I rarely use it and only put a tenner on it every two months, if that. I only have it because of my severe agoraphobia. It just means that I can call my sons if I feel a panic attack or anything coming on

I have one, I' not entirely sure how to work it...other than sending and receiving calls (oh and I can change the ringtone)...A tenner lasts years (or did till Mr L used it all up phoning BT when there was a prob. with our land-line)

It's never turned on and I never use it.  I'm nearly always home, if someone wants me they can call the house, if it's really important and I'm not in they can call back later.

Thanks for these responses folks.
Some interesting stuff there.
Interesting that although the poll indicates a good deal of mobile phone use, it also shows a majority who are irritated by others using a mobile.

Daniel I wish it was that easy, I am on a 1200 minute contract with unlimited texts in the UK, but I have got to use my phone for international calls and texts which knocks it up dramatically.

I only have a work mobile, and only because I have to.

Some of your poll questions didn't take this in to account

I never answer it if I'm with someone, or in a shop, or public place...........that's what the message option is there for.
As for texting.........never sent one, don't know how, and only ever received about two ..........Friends know me, and if they can't get me on the landline, they turn up at the door 

I have to get more techy savvy

my mobile is important to me but i hate answering the phone dread it.(just how i am) i txt happily though.

me as well justafriend people dont get it, but i HATE talking on the phone, I have to really need to talk to someone to phone them

Me too!

we must have a designated phobia name.....*goes to google*

telephobia

i dont know why really but it something i just avoid at all costs if possible,

That should be a phobia of distances!

i like that  gypsie another thing wrong with me   (justafriend telephobia)

thats teleportingphobia

yeah i dont like teleporting either, ill add that to my list

And me, there's only a couple of people I enjoy talking to on the phone on a regular basis, but usually I ignore it and text instead. But then I dont even like people knocking on my door or having people over to visit. I'm a right social animal me

me too, people like my mum i can talk to, people who i know really really well but other than that its a no no

Would it be practical for a shop to have a rule stating they would not serve customers who were at the same time using a mobile?
A number of forumers clearly think it is rude.

No I think if im in a shop im in there to buy something, as long as im not slagging off the staff member serving me then im entitled to do what I like with my other hand and my mouth (within reason ) They should be happy to accept my money, im not there to be their friend.

I'm shopaphobic, as well!