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Shannon Casas: This is what happened when I put my smartphone down for a week
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Shannon Casas
I challenged myself to put down my smartphone for a week. It was great — until I needed to get from here to there and couldn’t pull up Google Maps.My smartphone-free week began Monday, Sept. 2. I treated my iPhone as a telephone instead of a tiny computer for shopping, conversing, working, reading, route-finding, music-playing and sundry other wonderfully useful functions.