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Rich Davis brought up an interesting point today. He was talking to someone who wanted to possibly do some business with him, and when he pulled out his cell phone to get Rich’s number it was some old flip phone from a few years ago. Instantaneously, Rich no longer took him seriously.

These days your cell phone almost defines the type of person you are. You would think that a business person would almost always carry around a Blackberry, or a technically comparable phone. You could put the iPhone and the new Android phones in the same category, but they also have a bit more cool factor.

Rich lumped people people who don’t have a cell phone that should be commonplace today (iPhone, Blackberry, Android, Palm Pre, ect) into two categories. They either can’t afford it, which he is not ragging on clearly, or they just aren’t tech savvy and out of the loop. We don’t necessarily think judging someone on their phone is right, but we are pointing out that it is something that happens more so now.

How do you judge people when you see their cell phones? How do you react differently when you see someone pull out an old school flip phone, versus a new smart phone?