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Jun 2019
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#092 The Evolution of Cell Phones

Georgiana, founder of SpeakEnglishPodcast.com
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I have a question for you. What was your first cell phone? I got my first cell phone in 1996, and it was a Motorola. I can't remember the exact model, but it was very different from what we can find in stores nowadays. And yeah - with this type of cell phone, one could only make phone calls and send text messages. Now I have a smartphone, and I don't make any phone calls anymore. Like everybody else, I tend to use WhatsApp, Telegram, Messages, FaceTime, or Skype.

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