Article: Good cellphone should be heard and not seen

Some important etiquette tips for national courtesy month

It's National Cellphone Courtesy Month, so today I'm going to share a few etiquette tips to ensure you and your mobile phone are as cool and hip and "with it" as me and my phone.

Let's start with the issue of size. If you want people to think you are on the cutting edge of technology, your cellphone has to be as small as humanly possible.

Here's a good rule of thumb: If your cellphone is visible to the naked eye, it's way too big and all of your friends, relatives and co-workers will openly mock you.

Seriously, if you and your obscenely large phone were to walk into a modern high school, the bigger kids would grab you and dunk your ...

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