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The '80s Called, and They Want Their Cellphones Back


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Kat Lopez Samsung Juke

Kat Lopez: Whipped out her Samsung Juke ('You flip it open like a switchblade') and challenged her smartphone-toting friends to a 'text-off' to see who could type the fastest.

Credit: Andrew Morris

Julie Barbour-Issa calls her eight-year-old cellphone "the dinosaur. It's a brick, and I could use it as a weapon in an emergency," says the 30-year-old Norwood, Mass., civil engineer.

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