Is your mobile phone/cell phone a continual source of surprise and joy for you?

It’s a source of joy for me when hearing from people I want to hear from, listening to music, playing games. I hate my phones guts though when my alarm goes off or paying bills on my banking app. 

I don't rely on my phone for surprises and joy.

Nope...it's nothing more than a 2-way radio to me and is turned off 98% of the time.

99 % of the calls are from salespeople wanting to sell me insurance. If I try to call them back, there is a recorded message telling me that the number has been disconnected. My cell phone is a hassle, but I gotta have it for my job.

Huh? It's just a phone to me and not the center of my life or anything like that. Although, it seems that it's the source of life and living among others.

...or how about
an endless amount of
BS/Spam/Robo calls?
I just don't answer any more,
unless I know the # or ID because 
every time I do it is a Robo// call.
go to msg if not fake news...haha

sure. i like when my husband texts me or sends me cute cat videos when we are both at work 

i dont have many relatives so when i get a text, its kinda suprising for me.... and talking about emails, i honestly almost never received an email from a relative/friend trying to talk to me... 

the only time is my dad used to email me . but beside it , never received an email from a relative. 

honestly i had an iphone , but i didnt paid for the phone service at all.... until past december, with me starting a new job , my mom told me to pay for a new cellphone and i did.

i like a phone, but i like more a computer... with computer you can play all kind of games.

None of those surprises require a mobile phone.  Regardless, my mobile stays turned off and in my purse.  Ir rarely surprises me.

No it was meant for something else!

No. It's just a communications tool, as are my land-line telephone and the PC I am using to type this.

And a basic one too, not very different from Element99's. I think it can be used on the Internet but I use it only for occasional voice calls and texts, of which most are just arrangements to meet, and similar brief exchanges.

I have a so-called "smart" phone but I do not use it, I have paid off its 2-year contract, had it unlocked and removed the card. I tried to sell it but had no replies. It might be useful as a portable snap-shot camera IF I can discover how to use it as such, and how to extract the image files.