Re:gotta remember this is a japanease (Score 1)

It's not so much that society revolves around the device, it's that people assume that you'll be reachable regardless of location.

Interesting. One of the reasons I prefer cell phones to the point of now using one as my regular phone is that I have precisely the opposite experience: people expect not to always be able to reach you on your cell phone. They expect that sometimes it'll be off, or in the next room, or you could be in a no-service area, or you could be driving in traffic and not feel comfortable answering the phone, or you could just be busy (since it seems that ignoring a cell call because you're busy is acceptable, while a landline call is expected to interrupt anything you're doing). If I ignore a call on my cell phone, no one thinks twice about it. If I ignore a land-line call, I'd better not have been home.

But maybe I just know strange people. I have literally never sent anyone an SMS message, nor received one.