Reply To: Putting on teffilin without saying shacharis?

Until recently, many people wre forced to daven be-zman,and put on tefilln whenever they could. Baruch ha-Shem that we live at a time when tefillin are cheap enough, relative to incomes, that everyone can afford one. The mitsvah of tefillin and davening are separate, but its much more convenient to do them together since they come at the same time.