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You’re never really on holiday with a smartphone

Why not give your smartphone a holiday?

10 August 2013

9:00 AM

10 August 2013

9:00 AM

I was sitting on some rocks by the Cornish coast when a teenager swanned by on the sun-warmed boardwalk in front of me. The boy stood on the burning deck, preparing to dash across the sand, dive. Then his phone rang.

‘Luce! Yes, I’m at the sea… Was just going to plunge… Ran back to my mobile… Ha ha!… No, didn’t forget, will share that file on Google Docs… How’s France?… Awesome… Ha ha!’

Rage washed over me.

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