I don’t make or get many calls, and I do not text, but I’d probably be pissed off enough to rate about an 11. See, I hate when my stuff gets lost or broken just as a matter of general principle, especially when that lost/broken thing is a few hundred dollars (a Droid X isn’t cheap!) and I have been known to get a little bitchy… and by “bitchy”, I mean “violent”.
It’s not so much about the phone (though it is my only phone; no landline) but I would also lose my GPS, notes, games, music, pictures…. basically all of the stuff you’d lose if your computer got taken/broken and a bit more. And it seems that a lot of people, especially those in the older age brackets (45+), don’t seem to quite get that today’s phones are much more than just a portable version of the corded boxes with dials that hung on the walls a couple of decades ago.
Now, if it were solely about the phone aspect then I would drop my answer way down to around 1. There are only a couple of people I care to talk to that I don’t see face to face at least ¼ of my waking hours, so I can actually do quite well without that aspect of things.
@Cruiser I don’t quite get the whole “feeling tethered” thing. I’ve heard a lot of people say that, but it seems to be only from people who don’t know how to turn their phones off. Or is it just that I am fairly unique in that I have no issues ignoring people when I don’t want to deal with them (or just telling them to eat flaming horse-cocks) regardless of the means of communication?