I am really outside to this discussion, but I have a question that I think everyone who has something to say about this knows the answer to. I have no hidden agenda behind this question:
Why does a teenager need portable voice calling? Obviously if one does need it one should have a cell phone, but who does? Is it just the need to have gadgetry or is there actually some reason why a teenager has to be available to callers every second of every day?
(I am quite a bit older than the people we are discussing and I have a cell phone, but rarely use it. I spend most of my day in arm’s reach of a landline and I am not important enough that anyone will miss not being able to reach me during my 20 minutes at Mincha or the like.)