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MadrasT

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13. Because I do not have internet or cable TV in my home.

Reply to 2naSalit (Reply #1)

Fri Nov 1, 2013, 05:16 PM

Nov 2013

My smartphone is how I get my news (DU, apps for 2 local papers, weather) and is also how I do email.

95% of my activity on DU is from a smartphone.

It makes phone calls too, LOL. (No phone in my home either.)

I do have electricity and running water... phone can't replace those.

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