South Wales Echo

ONE LAST THING

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A new report this week reckons the average person will own 19 phones over the course of their lifetime. To which I say – ha ha ha ha ha.

I don’t know who these people have questioned but it certainly wasn’t any youngsters of my acquaintan­ce.

To date, I reckon my kids have torn their way through what feels like a dozen devices each.

Mislaid phones, stolen phones, phones – on one occasion a phone which went up in flames – we have been through (and had to replace) them all.

The trouble is that where once mobiles were a luxury, they are now almost an essential. We use them to bank and to shop. They are our diary, sat-nav, source of entertainm­ent and news, the capturer of our memories.

I used to dread mislaying a small child when I was out and about. Now it’s my iPhone. Which leads me on to another finding which reckons we lose our phones 50 times in a lifetime.. I average that in a day.

Never mind state of the art cameras or apps. I just need my device to shout ‘I’m over here’ at regular intervals.

ESSENTIAL: Mobiles

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