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The airline app usually knows about the delay before the departure board does, which is reason enough to have it installed.

Most hiking trouble starts with a route that looked shorter on a screen than it turned out to be on the ground.

Install it at home on WiFi, switch data to it when the plane lands, and keep your own SIM on for texts.

The phone can name every star overhead. It can also undo twenty minutes of dark adaptation in one glance.

Customising a phone is a hobby for some people. For everyone else it is one evening, done properly, then left alone.

Most people do the same five things to their phone every day. All five can be done for them.

Nobody edits a novel on a phone. Plenty of people have drafted one there.

The dog does not need an app. The person trying to remember the worming date does.

The easy ones are easy on purpose. Here is where the difficulty hides.

Some of the notes you blamed yourself for missing were the Bluetooth headphones.

The app did send it. The phone decided it could wait.

Tapping the right answer into a blank is not programming. Typing code and watching it fail is.

The apps that help in a power cut are the ones already downloaded. Afterwards there is no way to get them.

A phone is a decent spirit level, a rough tape measure and a bad thermometer. Knowing which is which saves a trip to the shop.

The phone is a very good tuner, a very good metronome, and a mediocre teacher. Use it for the first two without guilt.

Deleting the app works until you reinstall it on the train. Adding friction works for longer.

The application you send from a bus stop is judged the same as the one sent from a desk. Set it up so it can be.

Ten minutes buys a frame of pool or a half of football. It does not buy a season, whatever the menu suggests.

The difference between a building game and a waiting game is whether the timer is there for pacing or for payment.

An old phone makes a good single-purpose device and a bad second phone. The difference is whether it holds anything worth stealing.

A phone screen is the wrong shape for a comic page. The right reader makes that nearly irrelevant.

The app does not send the video. It usually tells the television where to fetch it, which is why some apps refuse.

Nobody replays a sixty minute recording. They look for one part of it, and usually fail.

Four bulbs, three apps, two accounts and a light switch nobody trusts any more.