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As hard as it is to remember, there was actually a time when everyone didn’t have an iPhone.
Allow us to refresh your memory, to mark 10 years since the first iPhone was announced, of a time when you didn’t have that smart little device in your pocket you’ve come to rely on so much.
These are all the things – good and bad – that happened before you got your first iPhone…
1. Getting lost every time you left with house.
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Without GPRS, we wouldn’t be where we are today. Literally.
2. Carrying around a music player AND a phone separately.
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SUCH an inconvenience.
3. Not being able to check whether someone had actually read your message yet and was ignoring you.
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A blessing and a curse.
4. Easily going a week without needing to charge your phone.
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Bliss.
5. Having to make human interaction with people by calling them rather than doing things through an app.
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Actually using a phone to phone people? No way.
6. Caring so much about your Snake high score.
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No Candy Crush back then.
7. Having to find another inconvenient way to check on the latest stocks and shares.
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Because that Stocks app you didn’t used to be able to delete was *SO* helpful.
8. You didn’t have to constantly refresh your screen.
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Though you probably didn’t even have the internet on your phone anyway.
9. Not needing an expert level of skill to manage your storage properly.
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All you had to do was delete a few of your 30 texts back then. Now it’s SO CONFUSING.
10. Getting genuinely sore thumbs from texting so much.
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FOUR presses to get the letter S. FOUR.
11. Spending ages picking the best polyphonic ringtone.
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You wanted a great on-trend one that would turn heads.
12. Having pub arguments that ended with the words: ‘We’ll have to agree to disagree’
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No Googling possible.
