I use my phone as my alarm clock, so every night it just goes under my pillow, plugged in to charge. I have to use it extremely heavily for it to ever need charging nor than that. But having "plug my phone in" as part of my nighttime routine is something I'd have to really WANT to find inconvenient really. I mean, there's other stuff I do every night, like get undressed, brush my teeth etc. I don't complain about that stuff.
This thing about locking into contracts: I haven't had a contract for years. I buy my phones outright, same as I do with my laptops and any other computers I buy. After all if I were to describe my day-to-day usage of it, it's obviously a computer rather than a phone. Sure, it sometimes gets used to make a call. But really, it's a personal organiser. I use it for my diary, address book, and for lots of text-based communication. Much more like an online laptop, just pocket-sized. I pay for my data on a month-by-month basis, so can switch providers whenever I want. I pay the equivalent of about $16 a month for unlimited data and texts, and 200 minutes, which is more than I ever use.
What I don't get is the argument that goes "it's a PHONE. As long as it makes calls, it doesn't need to do anything else". The thing about that argument, is that if it was called the iPocketComputer instead, that argument just wouldn't exist. And that's all it is: an internet-connected pocket computer that happens to have a telephony app. To put it another way, the definition of the word "phone" is changing, as tends to happen to words that refer to technology. It makes calls, therefore it is a phone. A phone has really always meant "something that makes calls" anyway, not "something that makes calls and doesn't do anything else".
