When I’m shopping for a cell phone, I really don’t care about a lot of its accessories or what kind of mobile case it comes in. I care mostly about its reception. I hate it when I am on the phone and I move five feet away from where I originally was and I lose reception, that is the biggest annoyance with cell phones . Where I used to live, there was a huge tree growing out front and it always interfered with phone reception inside the house. It proved to be a nuisance . In order to talk on the phone I had to walk down the street a block just to slightly be able to hear what the person on the other end of the line was saying . The whole point to a cell phone or any kind of mobile phone is just that. It’s mobile. You need to be able to take it with you where you go . Apparently modern technology isn’t so modern when it doesn’t even work . I don’t pay a bill every month to be out wandering around like an idiot. I need the phone to withstand being dropped a thousand times . I have a habit of dropping it once or twice a day . I obviously know that I can’t drop it from a skyscraper but I would like it to withstand being dropped from about six feet up . It’s just the way of things. It depends on the model but you can find a phone that will last you a long time even with some brutal battering . The durability and reliability of the phone is what makes them worth the hundred dollars you spend on them .